850 THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE 
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to look at the nwe have a holiday.“ | ago a clothing and firing fund, which, as its last report Thorough drainage of Sop 
Being struck by the — of the boy’s counte- states, “has been the means of providing articles of rotation of e cropping ; an earlier v vegetati dare extensive 
nanee, I asked him who he worked for, and what was | essential comfort, as plain clothing, bedding, and coals, | and harvest ; better adaptation the land tien, 
hi ess, and was info sa ther e was a printer’s boy | to the working classes of the place during a period of | stock ; an extended — to work the - 
in the office of Messrs. mbers ; and if his masters nearly 18 years, at a cost of upwards of 3000/., raised seasons; cheaper cultiva on, and lesge a aa. 
had heard how he spoke of them, their reading-rooms, in the proportion of four-fifths, or near 2400/., by their | more hea althy condition of the lan a expenses 3 
baths, and all the other means th y have employed to | own frugal contributions, and one. fift y the benevo- he dr raining of the present day, um . 
increase the happiness of their men, they would have | lent aid of their neighbours, whom a bountiful Provi- cumstances, hin — 2 to 4 feet i inary cig. 
been amply repaid, nor would fl — 8 een dence has placed in eireum mstances to befriend them.“ 16 to 50 feet in distances, the rula wid nue 
Let us have | To this fund every working man’s fa amily in the village | to decrease the depth and distance, 
their interests at heart, a hor vill Kòk all the better subscribes, the tenacity of the soil; but this ili 
after ours. J. R. V., Chi But for a reluctance to oce cupy your space un- by all. I have from long attention to the subj 
reasonably, 1 could illustrate the subject by reference | by my practice, been convinced that all land * 
I have lived all my life in the country, and think I | to cireumstances, whic would perhaps mei eat tae capable of being wet in su 2, is also 
know something of the condition and feelings of the work- | even to 4 B. B.,” that if — ers and employers of being drained ; and I am persuaded that wae 
her an|labour expect 2 and inte lligemt and faithfel intercepted by the drains in its course do We 
servants and workpeople, ed must practically show that land is thorou gh drained o y 
nental outbreaks) that the labourers generally are en- that they own the 4 duties n their = while 2 the level of “the — that n 
titled to our admiration and gratitu ude, ſor their patient exacting or demanding its Hisi- Vinde. soil, so as to prevent its rise by a el. to te 
perseverance and steady good conduct, amidst all their . 
privations and eres inp i different this is to the ON THOROUGH DRAINAGE. in clays, there is most occasion for their 
THe importance of thorough draining to health as drained : ; as a general principle ie a aai 
declared experience of some o your correspondents ! 
Is it that the — of 33 around us differ, or well as to vegetation has lately been particularly in all 2 
that we see through different mediums Probably brought to my consideration by certain questions having { The cost of draining varies from 703. to 140s. an acre, 
Now I do been sent me from the Board of Health, with a view to adoring: to the nature of the the rate eos 
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rish, where we | undrained land in the neighbourhood of the metropolis, | fa! d overe Demy difficulties m may o an 
— A many who are driven out of the closed parishes | are injurious to the health — the population, and that ditional expense of 5 to 10 per cent. The returns from 
sylum (such as it is), pe rhaps fevers and agues arise within the metro opolis itself at | draining are difficult to estimate; an intelligent tenant 
pinched i in, ill drained, ‘ll ventilated cottage ; but it is certain Seasons, during the prevalence of winds comin ng | will never object to pay 63 per cent. per on the 
an asylum. e moreov find them poor-rates in old from the marshes cost. It may often be found to give to arable land an 
age and — In this parish I have been a house-| The suc that wet land has in charging the sur- additional value equal to the rent, and to be the main 
holder and oceupier of land upwards of 20 years, and rounding atmosphere with vapour, and in lowerin ng its | ingredient in tie. am, waste land for cultivation, 
t 1 remember to have lost by theft is one sheep, a temperature, and the injury this We to re I have at this time on parts of Bagshot-heath, broken 
pean — of fowls, and I think one sheet, We have not a subject that particularly calls for this country’s 
inflictio of a rural police; my sheep, & o., would sideration ; and the more so that w hilst the mischief i is Kohl Rabi, Cabbages, Swedes, and Turnips, as are 
have gonea very little way towards paying police-rates | so considerable, the sree e. remedy it are simple, and usually produced on the best soils, and have alse parts 
during this period. The loss of the eatables made me | desirable, even in a lary view, if only to benefit | sown with Wheat for the first time ; without drainage 
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the best prevention to xa loss of linen ; and if the rails | having around it a soil which in winter is saturated with | material to drain wit 
are taken, and the he ulled, a subscription among | water, and with marshes above and below it, that The tendency of draining is to equalise the winter 
the * for a Boat load of coal, bought at the | are almost always charged with stagnant water, so that volume of water in the main courses, and to carry of 
„drawn home by our teams, and sold at a it may be said to be surrounded for four or five months | at that seasen that which would then collect to ooze 
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i : lungry pe 0 continued hlees intro- 
tribute soup in the winter time. The e othing elub is le metropolis — be described as seated ina basin, | duction of pipe tiles is rapidly superseding every other 
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x from whence, during 8 springs. Undraine 
tion of Tur s and Peas saves those crops; and a aily the warmer hours of the da „ cold exhalations con- receives the au utumn rains until 3 2 
quantum of milk to each of my labourers is of great |iinually arise, whieh are nightly returned upon the — in the con full dish; 80 all that then 
m, and would be worth very little if thrown | neighbourhood by the declining temperature. We may | falls runs instantly over N away, w whe pee “drained land 
e. Ar utire ear to all; and | therefore ascribe to the wet condition of the adjoining | continues always to receive the rains, and the water 
tance, however small, in every just claim for relief; country much of the damp and fogs and misty rains, | passes slowly and —— into the drains and away, 
rebt n a blowing up ;” | for whieh London is so notorious, ave reasun to think that the quantity is di 
no prying intrusion, nor haughty slight, A considera- | I cannot here further allude to the loss of heat, and | by being carried down from frequently 
12 of what you should expect, and how you should act, | the damp and deposit of moisture that are the eon. under porous eee as I find much less water o 
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ses were reversed ; will be sure to gain you | sequence of the daily rise and fall of temperature upon | flow from my own Jand than formerly, and 3 
respect. As for poaching, I am given to sporting, and |a wet surface; nor ean enter into details to prove | are reduced since 1 have drained it, Hewitt Davis, 
I been a poor man might have been a bit of a how much such a climate as ours may be ameliorated, Freier -place, Old Jewry, Lon don, Dec. 4 
oac If. In conclusion there are a hundred | and the general health be improved by thorough drain- 
ways of showing Sympathy with the poor, which are age. I mus ` e for gra sy readers will go so f. SMALL FA. RM. 
et with a retura of good conduct, I hear with me, an keep these a in view, in whatever L I serv you a faithful account of the produce and er- 
people — fad 2 + ators doing good to them, they show | say upon the occasion for deep in 8 to shallow penses of r- all farm; if you think it worth publica» 
no gratitude, might answer 
too much independence | draining. The occasion to make land most productive | tion, insert i K not, destroy it. T — 
is better th uch fawning ; and moreover take | is becoming so much greater and better understood, particularly even 3 a thin patch ce bad part: 
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your only way of evincing gratitude is by benefiting | upland of England ; but with respect to marshes and had this season more weight on one — th 
those about you. Georgos lowlan i i hree; i 
rid these of a against my Wheat * 
The perusal of the letter of 4 of * B. B.” inserted i n the material change in their ageres without some larger | stock kept consists of 2 half-bred farm 2 
Lending Article of * Agricultural Gazette of the 9th and more general yaa being adopted — can be | breeding ewes, 3 cows, and I or 2 weaning ealves 1 
induced a tant resolution to re eply to his re- carried out by the ow see statement belo ow 5 3 of sheep sold fat, I. you 
—.— but the ho admirable article from eres pen which T e 
follows that tion, made au i | pre 
feeling es ee a satisfaction, that the al sapsi I medi- } tidal ee is to ee raise their beds | of — is small plough, two rollers, mei ; 
tated had been so well a uticipated, M ly purpose is vom, (the action of all running water being to carry the horse hoe (one implement), harrows, three anda few 
express my concurrence in your sentiments, pa 1 which it passes from the higher to the lower cutters, dressing machine, single row rag j 
larly in those referring to “ B. Bs” remarks yes ae groun d), — if left ers they in time are lifted and other matters, I give particulars, as I gar 
efforts of his clergyman to establish, in conjunction drifted into fresh courses. In this way the present a fair statement. My other items are ear, w, 
with his „brethren in the neighbourhood, religious | channel — the river Thames below London may be said | day-bock, and balance up to the end of my year ds 
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his eminence as a divine, vindicated — out, and I see medy for the mischief this | similar 8 from Messrs. Huxtable, tity of land 
awakening in poorest an in- occasions, except in ha 1 of public sewers or Co.! I think & S. would find a similar que tuo 
terest half of the 3 and degraded of other oo drains, to supply the drainage that the river no to what I regis (about sufficient to iage, if he 
mong the mos t effective agencies for, the longer affords, a a —— . ee 
' nce The nature of m of the per ay have been | thought proper , more pro 
e of his argument, I ive in | put me, will be seen aby aef foll ae ng replies —Thorough | a — re where oniy — two first-rate 
a village which an old inhabitant characterised aa nee | drainage has as yet been practi nn 
19 black guard in country.“ ke has merely with a view to improve agriculture; it has not eder and a ga d all the year row 
or ly years raised more money 8 Proportion to its yet been sufficiently extensive to have bad much bene- extra hand when necessa: ry. harvest £ & d 
population and their eireums umstances than any other that ficial influence on climate. A tract of land may be so | Lago: I pay 10s., lis, anit 19s, pae maki 471 
I am acqua with, P ‘ . i month 44. 4s., wiih bger) e. 
— — y for pran wrath mae * s0- drained as to greatly benefit the crops grown on it, and Dibbling-13 neres lent pu iling early Turnips, oad onej 
to wii 33 oP ottentots, and wet the drainage be not sufficiently perfect or general Uire of 2 horse threshing machine (a very god 
he hich B. ers. But to eatisſy him that to perceptibly influence the atmos ere. For instane for Cl e 10s, per day ; ete a Land: , 
: “ong wants are — isien neglected, I may add, | the metropolis is drained and yet has its climate affected Wheat, 12s. — pe : = got more seed in i 
at Krmek every working man belongs- to some the vapours of the marshes some miles distant, 53 nd, There re is the wear Garn sue 
— a te and that before cottage allotments} The benefit from draining to ate, and underwood is Roots set against this Pens, Tur- 15 0 
pl a zonable, the same individual who esta- | becoming better understood. Open water-courses appear Sreps: Wheat, Ba: ley, Clover, Tares, epe S 3 0 
land fo “card i and Jews’ collections, provided | to be tlie only means to drain woodland, as the roots of 5 ns, liver, Hey Linseed, wot Wa a f 9 pe 
en uch allotments, which afford a profitable | trees are sure to choke covered drains within their) oo. i 32 
to most of the famili . 
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3 N dwellings, The ies which have none attached reach, Garden crops do not require the same thorough Begs — — osphate, Guano, Soot, and Salt 
benefit the Hotten 
j n, t anpli eager to | drainage as corn, provide Sa water be not Purchase of Store Hogs 0 n Insurance, 
t and Tihi formed many years mitted within 2 Ek eet of the surface ; the ay that 3 te, "Veterinary Š e on, Hire of Kam 
fo back arises under water n dis e- pe 
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