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a narrow slip on the sarface. You pass to the other side of the 

 field and you will see that the machine has drawn after it a string 

 of pipes which still following the plow's snout, that burrows all 

 the lime four feet under ground, twists itself like a gigantic red 

 worm in the earth, so that in a few minutes, when the framework 

 has reached the capstan, the string is withdrawn from the neck* 

 lace and you aro assured that a drain has been thus invisibly- 

 formed under your feet. One of these drains was laid open for. 

 inspection — the drain pi'^es were found to be laid straight, in 

 close contact and perfectly joined. The patentees have, in March, 

 April and May last drained 2,000 acres on the estate of Lord 

 Portman, Mr. Oakley and others, at a cost of from twenty five to 

 forty two shillings per acre without tiles — by the old mode the 

 cost was from £3 10s to £5 10s. 



Sir Anthony Fitzherbert's Book of Husbandry, 1532. He wa» 

 an admired practical farmer for forty years. He says to young 

 gentlemen, rise early in the morning, for sanat, sauctificat et ditat 

 surgere mane, early rising will make you healthy, wealthy and 

 holy. 



Transactions of tho Tloyal Hawaiian Agricultural Soo'.ety. PampMet. Pages 125. Octavo^ 



August ISal, Honolulu. 



(From J. F. B. Marshall, of Kauai, one of the Vice Presidents.) 



The annual address by Hon. Luther Severance is worthy of the 

 great cause of Agriculture and v/111 be read with great interest by 

 all its friends. 



'' Nations are so far advanced in civilization that they have be- 

 gun to appreciate the dignity and importance of egriculture and 

 to perceive that no branch of science affords a wider field for hu- 

 man research, or one in which patient and scientific investigation 

 may be rewarded with greater benefits to mankind. The road to 

 fame has lain through sacked and ruined cities, and harvests 

 trampled under foot by contending armies The Poets and histo- 

 rians of antiquity tsll us of tlie heroes wlio figured in the work of 

 human slaughter — but little of the men who made improvements 

 in tillage or of inventors in the mechanic arts. Archimedes at- 

 tracted attention chiefly by the machinery he invented to defend 



