FFK 
21—1848.] 
THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
— nema and at the same depth, and 
— an ge in — clay subsoil, | 
of Operation — 
and ered in the sand i y — in la 
The — pees e = the land vas in 
nearly covered w 
rth 
with a 
watt 26 
— 25 Draining — t 
from 34 feet to 6 feet dee 
run branch s into mains, the deposit 
blocking them up. No er dug up, though se 
the ditches are from 7 to 8 feet deep, pahing 
rials used are 
and ne 
acres 
ture 
. 
rass 
acre — rent. The following spring, 
e acre. In 1845 it was Turnips, a heavy we 115. 2 m 
0 
trong loam, 
subsoil ; the land —— all arable. 
e 
epi run- 
dh 
2 
SPE 
Ee: 
—5 
F su 
amazing quantity of 2 This mode of draini 
only applicable to 
inches of 
pea ed by the drought 
to make it contract. trict in which our farm is 
situated is drained by — — at Pode — 
Spalding, but mot — to convince the ers of 
the drainage to good — ation = 
— 
t keep the water re: om lower k level than they had done 
have erect 
soft that we 4 — 
. | the drains with the ho and ha 
more in th 
Af the open drains all required clearing out pas 
quently between pong a — Sowing, 
at no one w rienced th 
te the advantages of underdraining.— T. A 
IX. en Buzzarv.— Date of n 
„ 7. 
as No, 
—1843, 4,5,6 
Extent . 
sand of a red colour, 
26 acres 
miry 80 
soil and su ; 
subsoil containing flints and — e 
ubsoil ; ne 
acres of the above in 
Mode of Nerve — aeres iy weed clay an 
velly loam, soil and es 
| deep, in furrows, n nd no 
is T 
yearly tenantry), and a a. one-sided one, 
y 
- | keep sie leaven the land clean an: 
| keepan 
22 open drains on light — soils but “Fg appre- | pai 
ro 
9 acres. 
— of Soil. * acres of the blue lias formation, 
bsoil; 40 acres 
eavy | 
soil; 36 i 
herefore, I say, that it is 
or 
Iam no lawyer, neither have I consulted one, 
the document is written out in eac 
a yearly rent of ——, pa 
half — — lease shall contain all 
sonable co l 
without 2 back a 
rishing crop without permission, in writing, to 
that effect from the landlord, That the said C. D. shall 
5 feet deep deep, : = 48 22 t a 
cases W 
executed ; but — — by day, — the 
acre is a trifle more, the men have no excu 
now 
the corn crops also much 
from 
ce 
of loam, done this spring, 
of communicating 
on 
n let being be 
cost per 
firm, and e, as 
drains is in every case 
highest to Lips lowest part of the í fields, 
The Cost of the operation was as follows, The co 
on tile and sole drainage, 2 feet deep, cost, in labour, 
digging * laying tiles, ae filling in, 23d. per pole of 
59 y cre, including main drain, and in 
;| to execute a sal pein of 
wn the descent, from the | 
- | for 
untry. 
8 1 the said lease ara a 
e im — 88 
Rye, M. rzel, §e.— You last year inserted 
in your Gazette a — n of the Rev. A. 8 
ye, when on the bays a into stover by mixing 
it with layers ; e season for mo 
green Rye is approaching it it "might be useful to many 
agriculturists to learn ticularly in w 
ation on we subject t 
tal cos 
Drainage 4 feet deep cost in labour 
zd. per pon) or Lact 3s. 4d. p r acre, andin material 
. 2s. per acr . 4d, 
x speaks of stacking Sainfoin in this way, but 
he does not mention in what Probably 
equal quantities would answer the ; the Grass 
should be allowed to nat for a day, and | and by means of 
rdles you can arrange a sae tym of air . or ven- 
tilating chimneys, thro rick 
now 
hole 
the seed light stro ke of a 5 
the usual Ae in this the seed ts dropped, and 
posited a boy’s or woman 
t. of I te of lime, — 15 bushels of cinder. 
, and from ae to 
rod ced 4 
of Barley, and promises to yield at 1 25 
rs. of 
The resu every case has — ——— = only 
elay soils are now quite free water standi 
surface, eee ee, 
—— 
to work, and the crops more certain. 
sheep eating off the Turnip crop, the land easier | 
nacious, “en the work be properly 
R. Vallentine. 
ome Corresponden 
ment between — and Tenant 
grees to take i 
f 6 qrs 
+ aging harvest from 5 to 6 Wheat per acre, |; 
dust per acre, mix ed wit 
sui 
he considers 8 himself safe —— N 
served the same again), and to sell all 
farm to 
| Off at a great loss, as he has not another 
to go to. | 
