39^ DRAINING. 



There are numerous fads which shew that water is, in 

 certain cases, so conhned within the carih, that if the re- 

 servoirs of it are pierced into, it lias a force sufficient to 

 rise to certain heights. At Fincham, a man complaining 

 that his well was often dry, Mr. For by advised him to 

 bore at the bottom of it. The well was 28 feet deep ; and 

 on boring, the borer suddenly dropped down to the head, 

 and being drawn up, the water gushed after ir, and has 

 ever since ran over the top of the well. 



The exertions which Mr. Salter, of Winborougli, 

 has made in draining his great farm of above 800 acres, 

 have much merit. The first yt-'ar of his coming he made 

 a straight cut for the brook which runs through it, 342 

 rods in length of seven yards; 11 16 rods ot open drains 

 in the meadows ; 2937 rods of ditching, five feet broad 

 and four deep; and 4871 rods of hollow-draining: these 

 works he continued, and in 1801 did above 4000 rods of 

 hollow-draining. In another faimhe has at Carbrook, 

 of 400 acres, he did in 1791-2, 798 rod,- of ditcliing, and 

 788 of draining ; in 1792-3, 371 of ditching, and 1562 of 

 draining ; in 1 793-4? 57 1 of ditching, and 897 of draining ; 

 in 1794-5, 201 of ditching, and 687 of draining ; in all, 

 1941 of ditches, and 3931 of drains. His drains are in 

 general 30 to 36 inclies deep, some to four feet. He uses 

 anv sort of wood, cliiefiv the buslies that were a nuisance 

 to his fields, but of late has been forced to buy great 

 quantities. 



In this note of the exertions of the master, it will be fair 

 to minute those of one of his labourers, who did 1300 

 rods of hollo w-jdrains between Martinmas and harvest. 



1 was rather surprized to find tliat this improvement 



v-'as necessary on Waterden farm, in a very dry country : 



but Mr. Hill, finding that the springs were injurious to 



much of his land, made very laudable exertions in freeing 



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