38 JANUARY. 



which is that of substituting the force of eight 

 women turning four windlasses instead of horses. 

 Also of one horse which acts with the power of 

 twenty. My neighbour, Mr. Plampin, has given 

 an exact account of the work of this implement, 

 in the 45th volume of Annals of Agriculture, to 

 which the reader would do well to refer, as well 

 as to my own account of the woman mole, in the 

 42d volume. By this method all poaching is pre- 

 cluded, and the expence at the same time much 

 reduced ; for he drains for any person at three half- 

 pence per perch, of which the half is profit to him- 

 self for the use of his plough ; his foreman con- 

 tracting for the labour, including his own time, at 

 three farthings. 



The state in which land should be for draining, 



admits but of one question, the right moment for 



applying the Essex method of hollow-draining ? 



Wilh respect to this, there is a diversity of opinion, 



and, perhaps, with some propriety, it being a point 



on which something may be advanced on both 



sides. As to all other circumstances, such as the 



greater exertions of large open drains ; the brick. 



soughs of Mr. Elkington, 8cc. they should be un- 



exceptionably performed previously to all tillage ; 



an assertion which many practical reasons support. 



They imply a degree of wetness which would be 



ruinous in tillage, and as that wetness commonly 



proceeds from powerful springs, much carting and 



trampling could not be permitted after ploughing, 



even in summer, without essential mischief. 



Another 



