THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
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bees. Yet each of these yam keepers could are clay o stones or tiles, being very 3 in having . jn the subsoil. I should 
furnished enco 5 statemen re oe that it well ——— down before the soil is put I have | drains all. parallel and run cal have ; 
1831, an excellent year for bees, i — hiv —.— ing pa re = 2 2 — Rl yi 7. 5 ing is done John W t triada * 
seat — 2 — —.— the spe — “cholera, yi p eosts me from 8d. for a rod of 8 yards; | ed Regs — DENVER, I k Dow 
—— = rte mapa in oa ree dán: i — main — 9d. — oe “getting, aang Naara ra I have sye been engaged in snr dna — 
f sifting, and loading the es ards uring 
known Á eful influence prevented suc neyo oti the pee I calculate the carting and | great deal — —— on several — — 
18 er spending 2. in attempting to prese putting the stones into the drains (which m man | viz., from strong clay to ick. sand. Tan z w, 
some ight hives through i winter, the whole were ose), at rod. e tiles in 1846 cost me, 8 that the deeper the drains are in reason the cad 
ing. such histories are common, off, 246. for 24-inch, and 4-inch 32s. In 1847, | fron 4 feet deep- * À n 
commoner than high — „% D.“ was justified in 2}. we tiles 168. . A. inch — 6-inch 258.; these drain must be determined by the porousness 1 
sis precarious in our coun ine and steam power. The total which you are draining. I have drained from 
or 
nes all attempts of that kind. For, apropos of 
this peaceful nden. of rural economy, he quotes: 
What man dare I dare, 
Who dares do more is none!“ 
* 3 — inform 
Me that 
pitched ‘battles i in 10 aay n won them all!“ 2 — 
alas! we cannot sun iece of -hea 
api 
fy won by a dosing — of light tne nor) 
i ng 
fuls of Potatoes by 
re, whi 
help us through the difficulties of the situation de- 
d by “ 
However, 10 a cheery heart, such an honest struggle 
vide for beloved ones is full of all hope, and 
9197 e ade box-feed, and has 
o purchase 2 to x-fee - to -purchas 
food to give them, as (S.“ mae 
anniina will sur at 
has not fixe 
his while to 
never a 
o procur 
Water power for his 
acres of poor ground, n 
his hens we ete oe ? 
re some un 
milling operations, with a 
Ashe 
n many eight to him. if the a were 
— feed Gaim and supply the London or nearest 
elp. The raisi f Turni 
here are so — pa hands 
stiff 
l 5 do ee ee required, might 
i seh at ne side, and poultry * on Ae other, 
if su a thing could be got or built, would be useful. 
stream, whic 
1 1 a 3 or pon 
Lo wt HARDINGE hen ff fought ie i 
ip 
—— last com- 
B 
d on his 9 aid it not be wath d 
appropriated | ‘ 
few! 
near at hand, if possible, for 
has 3 tp 
1 . — 1 foot of stones as good as 
mall and well sifted. 2 perfeetly 2 and 
have a every benefit from my draining ; Frances 
—ARDINGLY, NEAR — Sussex.— 
cultural Ginetta $ 
e been much 
the far 
Michaelmas, 
Weald clay, it stood in grea 
drained, which, after —— the fields 
up a great number of th rows, I determin ined 
should be the first step to improvemen nts; and having 
been recommended to try 1 haaie afteri inspect- 
artially drained, and 
efore practis now 
and 100 aeres, the whole of which 
0 feet apart, except that 
ins 3 feet 
shi necessa 
also laid in afew drains across the fall of the jeu doubled in value in.a couple ears, W 
but consider this mode of draining far inferior to | drains that are crossed b h ce > ping, & 
entting direetly up and down. The soil generally is a which vary in depth from 20 to 20 inches, are general} 1 
cious blue and yellow clay, but there are several | quite dry, and the land not a farthing for ten. 
ac a mo rous soil large mixture of As a sm how far capillary attraction will carry pos- 
sen hei which required the continual use of the | ture, I may m mention what I rved last summer 
pickaxe. The cost of cutting, ve os „Pipes; and —— up a field of early Pota in August last, 1 
filling” k gate a Ae on an average, 2/, 168. per acre. | perceived that a part of the field was quite wet 11 
t The pipes by the —— and would, 0 there h of fe | 
be provided, and an occas 
k ö by the exercise of thie Ms ge japan —— the ' hauling, cost some thing n more than an nother 
Perh in a country where planting was going field of Wheat I.grew last where I ba purposel 
on, a few hundr ousand Larches and other forest out some drains in different t parts, the bet memory 
trees might be raised, mii would command a ready most striking, and I = auha a 2 bailiff on the 
ale. — many aung hands to undertake the estate, who was opposed to ing, and whose 
details, it aa tion cut 8 in another field, to 
of his“ holdan i aie anu dm e as tell me what, 5 th ts the difference in fhe crop would 
ofi and n eable a vee as any. Many be, b he deep drained and the undrained portione 
other hints and details might be offered, and, believ- of the geld; tha ial he 85 p ata sr be bet 
thn subi N f awe and three: sacks, or 8 to 10 bushels more Wheat 
hy drained than on undrained parts, 
believe he underrated it. I also good 
de and other Turnips, where I was frequently told 
it would be to attempt to grow them, and am 
themselves 
their werd e = soil, and live u 
de, bpr rogne 
. and, tasting h he lapai not “ give in,” should 
in some of the ray: een 
i ‘wiih he al will — . MP we heartily wish him 
LAND DRAINAGE 
REPORTS, 
k No. XXIV.— Parzotp HALL, „STANDISH, WIGAN, a 
—Dr ained in a. 6-7, 
Ta used e 3 tiles, 
“the stones or tile, ha eda : 
dil an with the soil, When oe = 
he education of 
upon A 
remarks we offer with cordial good-will 
— Ser level, which was before in high and 
‘ow ridges ;, Edw. Vizard. 
—Beteast.—In. 18 
No. I;got possession | 
s. get a great depth, i 
:| the common hor: 
0 ; 
directly d natu RY “fall of — land, 
and filled with the soil which was taken out, after 
1 in a small quantity of Heath over the Pipes, 
varying from 3 to 6 feet, but came ‘hie i 2 
e | bottomed, the fa is 3 a — 2 
of a 
anying from 
the depth of 
XXVI of | 
a farm of a Aeee A nii, 1 miles from this town, | 
n consequence of t 
land and bad outlet for the 1 1 
winter, 50 acres, a complete flat, the soil a 
coarse black sand for ne 3 feet deep, 
it ean 
2 — 
urhood 
shoe tile and a sole; 
rod of 6 yards varies according to soi 
No: XXVIII. e men ce en 3 
give you the results. of their 
ener erely premising t hink the 3 
subje ps are like that of sen 5 ‘le ey 
who fought because 8 yer ot determine 
whether the shield set u a the highway was 
silver. It is very e ih just suited 
e wee dec the water " 
n | hours oe a fall of rain. "Ansar ih 
ths rnin of ö lay, 
e depth 3 per 
od thia fed bas been d all throug 
ever, but on sinking trial bales in abe ptum 
5 and 6 feet, I found that, nang 
and as the tiles must be drawn 12 miles, I caleu- 
late that the cep drains will cost per gn 20 to 25 per 
reh | are 
cent. less than the shallow. I pay 23d. pere! 
(21 feet), for opening 2} feet deep, and bu for 4 4 top 
the I have drain ee 
— ake stg eter 
th 
on the estate of the of Her The land in 0 
the birdy gd . of good quality, 5 wretchedly in tion, and I mean to drain 
t of under e. A — . — L vas ae. in whether a depth of 5 feet in 
— only with the Deanst mpleted | not be quito s We to render 
about 15 in the course of the au winter, all times; 1 
30 inehes deep and 18 feet asunder, leak e with | „ 
2. inch broken s partly with tiles, as directed by SMALL POX IN, SHEEP. te! l 
Smith. In 1845 T beeame,acqu with Mr. Tagine a few observatio oe respecting aing” | 
arkes’s system, so ably advocated by Mr. Mechi, and | pox in sheep would not be e altogether by the ‘rogues É 
was forcibly struck the ar, nts in its favour, some of your e b7 con fn . 1 
a tumn and of that year I drained 17 some of my emp! E 
n 
our shores ; but under the 
afraid there} is little chance: of doing either, 
allowed to driv e their diseased f 
