THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 



sricTjltural society of 





ns on wh.cn -Mr. Wig 

 >unds his preference for diagonal drainage, (ai 



pposes itself to our vi i of the ri- lit le h. 1 t 



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-ec% downwards till 

 a on which it accurr 

 lestillit meets a chain 



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SATURDAY, JUNE 12, 1847. 



We «nk .1 r ,8, f tOT y. con cise, and intelligent 

 wKinatwe have seen of those lately Dub- 

 *« the subject of Land Di 



2^m? " draining '" b ? John Wl06 ™ 8 > Es q-' 



^author, while he has to a considerable extent 

 J" <» the information of witnesses before the 

 J* Committee on the improvement of settled 



*M0Mm, !! e f "" ,St I ,art evHh-llth formed hi- 



ttBeri*„ n „ l * fuT, »slied l»v his ow'n extensive 



^S^^ 1 ^^ Parttla^; for 

 "T editions for the extensive 



2S»" wh * W as the surface of the land 



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to see that the more porous pi 



deeply, and frequently opened up by 



g a slope should b 

 rtioos of the subsoi 



^mil be eliectiPilU 



CHRONICLES OF A CLAY FARM.— No. 



V. a,- .v us- land is drained, and the crooked 



few that remain straightened; the Ash trees i 

 pollards grubbed up, together with all other 



the plough ; the Farm buildings improved a litt' 



anTfemale"— when all this is done— and thanks 

 creasing Population, increasing Trade, and inci 



Does any one seriously believe that the 

 (as much as possible by fairly-paid 



sxtravagantly disproportionate to the looked f 



ing, the depredations of birds and vera 



laming, to correspond: the injurious shade 



indeed must sp« i 





f practical agnculti 



this end, it is generally useful, and sometimes amusing, 

 field will be found, on enquiry, to have established for 

 itself. But when two or three or four fields come to 

 be thrown into one, in a district originally close-fenced, 



Being bent upon the adoption, as far as possible, of 

 the six cour.-e shift, I had made it one of the occupa- 

 tions of those valuable provisions of Nature, the long 

 winter evenings, to cut, carve, and contrive, upon the 



principal fields. The task was not I simple or* eaJy ow. 

 The inclination of the land being very slight, had to be 

 atudied with the greater care ; the h-nc. -s that should 

 remain were not always the best or the straighteet ; 

 and that halfway house of indecision (so well known to 

 ill busy travellers on the highway of life), between 



you begin, (or might begin 



have got to urge pr<> ami <•««,- doirt let anything or 

 anybody divert or f.w/V \ our plan. Your experience 

 and mine will differ very much if you do not find more 



under-done than by an ot>er-done job. « The firs/ex- 

 pense is the least " in agriculture- and in everything 

 else perhaps, with the old exceptions of Law and 



ind the last, in the opinion ol all surrounding 

 n, that ever would be :) the other part for 



had you seen it, I determined to ii.dul^e with its i Id 

 ng-forgotten friend, a bare summer fallow, 



il effects and influences we had so long a 

 y some lew we«k, back. Until the end of May 



it on ahiie over the whole of the 22 acres. 



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'«<?with his iron teeth; and if tl 



t like a bull he tosses him over, and gores him with 



jri^lesTbrokenThan to the exemplar of a handful 



hen came a nameless implement of private use and 



iftctm -a :■:-••;■• - *■■ i ," nd b «! d » WI * a 



S i-uober for its sire, and an iron nay-rake lor its dam. 



So lift and re-expose the crushed and stifled soil ; and 



Even in the most fertile districts the Grass crop had 



management is at least requii 



six-course, or any other course of husbandry ; and to 



