NOVEMBER. 30{.) 



halk, or clay carts, should not stop : they may 

 work from the first day to the last. In wetter 

 soils, you may cart any sorts of manure on to grass 



lands, provided you use small carts. 



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DRAINING. 



In this month you may begin the work of hol- 

 low-draining, which, on wet lands, is the sine (juu. 

 non of husbandry. It is in vain to think of 

 farming them to any profit, without this improve- 

 ment. Manuring before this is done, is but ex- 

 pending money for five per cent, advantage, when* 

 5O ought to be the return. Lay your land dry be- 

 fore you attempt other improvements : the first 

 step is cutting deep and large ditches around the 

 vet fields; then you gain a requisite fall to take the 

 water clean away from the drains. 



If the soil is very wet, it will be necessary to cut 

 the drains near each other ; for instance, about a 

 perch, a perch and a half, or two perches asunder ; 

 by which means it will be laid in most soils in dry 

 and wholesome order. Fill them with whatever 

 materials you can get the easiest; bush-faggots, 

 stones, straw, &c. &c. No improvement in agri- 

 culture is greater than what is effected by these 

 drains, nor any that will sooner repay the expence^ 

 In many parts it is well known, that the first arable 

 crop will repay the whole -expence, which is a profil 

 not to be reaped in any other article to which a 

 man can attend. 



