No. 15. 



Draining — Rutabaga. 



273 



Kig. 43. 



And, in practice, it is well to wait to mark the 

 effects of a drain cut in the higher jiart ot the 

 slope to be drained, for these effects often extend 

 further than might be anticipated, removing 

 springs, l)ursls, ornozings, at a great distance. 



On the other hand, a single ssvainp, as from B 

 to A, iu the following figure, may be produced, 



and yet one ilrain at B may be insufficient to re- 

 move it. In this case, the water being brought 

 to the surface by more than one channel, it is ne- 

 cessary to form several drains to reach the seve- 

 I'al beds in which the water is contained, as at B, 

 C, and D. 



These examples will show, that one rule, with 

 respect to the laying out of drains, is not applica- 

 ble to all cases, but that the drainer should adapt 

 his remedy as much as possible to the cause of in- 



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jury. One end, however, to be aimed at in all 

 cases, as to reach the bed, channel, or reservoir, 

 in which the water is contained. 

 ( I'o be coDiinued.) 



Rutabaga. 



The following is an account of the method 

 erf" cultivating rutabaga, adopted by the Rev. 

 Henry Coleman, in obtaining a crop tor which 

 he received a premium of twenty dollars 

 from the Massachusetts Agricultural Society, 

 in the year 1830. 



" Gentlemen — Accompanying this you have 

 the certificates of a crop of rutabaga raised 

 tliis year on my farm in Lynn. From these 

 it will appear that on an acre, measured by a 

 aworn surveyor, on one side of the field, were 

 gathered seven hundred and forty-one bas- 

 ket-fulls; and that forty baskets of the above 

 named weighed at the town scales, two thou- 

 sand seven hundred and fifty pounds net 

 weight. 



"This, allowing fifty-six pounds to a bush- 

 d, the standard weight assumed by the soni- 

 ety, would give a crop of nine hundred and 



three bushels to the acre. The turneps were 

 planted on the 29th of June and second of J'> 

 ly; about one pound and a half of seed was 

 used for the acre ; and they were gathered 

 and stored in cellars and in the barn, in the 

 last part of November. 



" The ground on which they grew is a 

 good soil, neither wet nor dry, and bore the 

 last year an abundant crop of onions, and corn 

 the year precceding the last. It was well 

 manured at both times, and in fine tilth. It 

 was manured with at least six cords to the 

 acre of barn manure the last spring, and sow- 

 ed again to onions; but the seed entirely fail- 

 ing, it was ploughed, harrowed, furrows 

 struck out, and about eight cords of barn ma- 

 nure spread in the furrows ; ploughed again 

 so as by a back furrow to form a ridge over 

 the manure, and the seed sown with a small 

 drill harrow on the ridges, making the rows 

 about twenty inches asunder. 



" As soon as the plants were of sufRcient 



