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THE AGRICULTURAL GAZE 
EE. En. 26, 
suffer more w hen flooding нет place. 
is the proper 
drainage of both : 
ап overy of s -power have changed the 
relative positions of the north and south. In th 
com tively lev rovinces of the south the 
st ——— ought to s persede ad waterfall. No 
of rent : 
ut while we 
Parliament. to do something for agriculture on the 
on 8 oor- 
rates on the other, we no 
should not be progre — towards complet 
Field- inis nage on - —— Uel system is л gw 
e both south and north, but 
The 
a la 
are continually dunning i ug 
stream, and free acces 8 le. it from the exterior of the 
pipes, that cause: oil above. which 
exte 
aem is k 
no v e: below, has no 
o ndi is > чий, so far as the pipes 
this is the right. ex- 
n me if I say that E think 
n, and 
some facts wh ich have come under my own observa 
which appear n to explain the difficulty in à mo 
satisfactory m 
The works with "which I 22 ere here are in 
by ho 
| breadth, 1, as I have stated ot e, that at 
ct. 
е the capi lary attraction that will exist w 
ad be ny 2 em below pad ge 
e l 
attempts to discover the cause, 1 desired the mechanic 
i ae 
50 feet 2 dragon was р nce of 
ane of my 8 in drainin 
that оао: a porous stratum сап 
within = eee distance ſrom 
this stra n be cu 
g convinee 
as far asunder as 6 
т also Mem that if the porous stratum he 6 feet 
the 4 feet drains will not dry the land nor overcome 
t deep” 
M that and eran subsoil is an indura 
the pee 
who ha = — tl 
end to the o 
he did s во, — discovered that at one joint there 
ong ss s the чан continues to flow upon the surface, 
nding open fu 
cannot be said m have been 867 shed. 
o doubt a difficult task 
enacious clay lands, it is 
to drain off the whole of tha, flood-water under 
battering rains lately Se but this forms no 
argument for giving up su ah 
impossibility; it should — excite to a more 
rrows, thorough under-draining | 
hea 
did n 
i to “fo hae ig undulation 
e pr ressure of which was quite sufficient to impede the 
T; and ascertain if the fall was continuous; ; 
was a 
correspondent asks 
mode : culti ved: is for eei der 
(12 i inches), manuring the ground with poe 
кд. arva although the elevation (an and of course the ashes before — рин eed, and sowing of 
quantity of air) was. so small mA to be — nitrate. o aciem t. of salt рес acre upon the 
by the use of the spirit $ this. w was ed, and the | Wheat as soon as à is 2 fairly out of the ground. І вот 
water eireulated properly without — trouble. | 2 ема m e (which, I believe, is too much by 
Take another ease :— A gentleman of tance, | half), ar s mds И in as ‘early in eptember as I ean 
in fact your correspondent “ Y.,” put do e pipes | get the — sent T. G., Clitheroe, 
to supply his village with water, as he had plenty of fall — .. 
oz 
MANAGEMENT OF A FLOCK DURING THE 
LAMBING SEASON. 
with: our — 
Where soils of this kind have been ate c mse ‹ — which wou b HE first point connected 
growing amiga i залі always be an inju- eme if he ad kept a regular and continuous fall ; Кы we ils before re eons: sheep are more 
dicious plan to attempt t off these with sheep. but when all th ten were laid to his service reservoir, | Valuable than they form were, in ннн. 
Several examples of this Kind are noticed x our cor- he was mortified to find that no supply of water would ther ange — improved ignis 23 M yof 
dent, the dif bet he drained eome through, notwi standing his 16 feet of he eater importance any as possible during 
TMpORCI, пеге via ешееште Ty tfl n th mine ssure ; he therefore set a work bore a small|the critical period of e nature of 
N52 ole wherever there was a bend hei 4 - "Pipes shelter must depend very much the size, character, 
oil in in the one case, as in the other, eco ee to allow the escape ir, and w n had | and conveniences of A large covered shed, 
vious from the — of the feet of ‘the пэ that finished the last between сагри aie I the | fitted with raek and manger for hay and roots, closed 
d "water rushed out with such rap og эеле x off his hat, on one side, e 2 : з exception of hurdles, open 
and ost convenient building ;and 
with the flood-water. Eve dry porous soils, the 
best adapted ат this system, ‘he trampling o of the 
ent AMA 
se zh 
ever since, merely mper ng cae the small i ps 
in such soils in a state of decomposition, and hence 
poer m 
colation uniformly over the|. 
2 1 a! appia 
ed do vic ied thus manuring them 
— — wile it robbed the ridges and heights 
of 3 just s 
We cannot didi these observations on the general 
P acaba of the country, without referring to the dif- 
erence of enterprise between the agricultural and 
oa crt — ty for w — «— | 
bored, should be opened 
for a few seconds en escis ‘the wate: 1 
off, awe allow the eseape of the air. 
I 
ings, is it not more probable 
ing from the pipe qm а laid too low 
Pas a joint e: too high, and — "Ar Apre im 
there by the return of the e 
жета» һу - pipe ding Ta vain prevents ie 
me to 
that, instead of the fault 
w,it is owing 
N 
E 
be the true e explanation, and I give 
because I se that o 
pipes (both for hot "wd cold wa 
ч 2 a 1e other; v 
rned |! 
acts to Mr. Hewitt Davis's drain- | Th 
ewes. 
the more pisc 
s 
ose adjoining — — » a 
sides s, for the purpose of r 
ambs, or, in severe неадна to a 
as fast as 
is gene- ay tiny suffered | prevalent wind (more particularly the es and also. 
rally enlarged upon to the 3 = the some inconvenience from 088855 of such facts as overhead, to k rain 
er. эме hardly recognised the - - e those I have mentioned, answer well on farms where large flocks ave ke tod 
^ which we were familiar nh but a few iere are so many infallible rules for draining laid | moveable lambing-houses, such as ean be rea dily taken 
i says ourc great is the revolut on pA down by the authorities on that subject, that I think | to pieces and erected again w without — ble, . 
1 it is a great pi nnot give usa digest of them | 2. Attendance..—When the flock , the shep- 
the last 10 v ing nani all; or, d would be still better, give us Pie own rat should have ‘sansa te addition to ari a OF 
£ opinions on the subje One hallow draining is|such means attendance be t day 
— d T Sus fora thers, th not al the: ds dr ч of and night The saving of a single ewe by c1 
tions of every kind fleeing before it. Had our |a third says, d ins of ЕЧ 3 a th 2-6 — al ~ot fes ki da ies. kept i 
: уз, drains of ce el nal aid, ourse, if the flocks are 2 
manuf d мон e e /ns discovered an p yan of 16 feet; and a fourth, | the field, either a hut or a house on — 
ец -— bes aa scc Pi п agri- | that t those of 10 to 12 yards distance apart have dis- avem for ке pH. so that he may not 
— the ome appointed him. If every writer in giving his теа һауе бт lter 5 Ка ани with the aid . 
pT arr — кино how pleasant an excur- were to confine himself to his own land = his of w sg cri 
sion ain ors even at E this inhospitable — reba ar be fewer differences of doe prepare any conveni mi rem edy "ihat may be a j 
season of th pics We: do not alt th 
this remark—for if gory "era ча 
п the pr — 
hich, 
| knowledge on the subject, ‘night, he well spared, in my 
drai 
well suited in de — and distance f efr 
hat | one t is quite unfit for another. 
. | which were 5 — reat and 30 feet apart, an: 
refer *pondents 29 me any information how to go to } 
ae Nasty vas 
field with a stratum of 
> 
seems to me to 
— 
even to 30 feet deep. Can an prs mia 
end 
| 1 
laid the land perfeetly dry by going to that depth, and | f 
feet di from each other 
The ordin 
e |: is with 13 es aa — 
ing on the 
Pia in deat form d a шо 
в; | head, 
The ewes should be visited from time to tim 
жоры so as to afford assis 
ut not to fficiously, for although in many cases 
сеен lost for the want о à „yet in — 
by 
wes are sometimes destroyed 
rule of importance should be borne 
On ne 
— assistance „should be 
es 
the 
b nene ce. 
a 
frequently requiring assistance 
ep, th сес of the lamb is unfavourable, ; 
the lamb is dead. r sentation і des 
oe anit nak d bead 5 | 
arts p І © 
at others the legs are bent t back, or p 
together, or the lamb b may lie € 
ul a 
lation to turn the lamb, or — 1 back or brin 
t are misplac some cases | 
parts n | 
cannot be done without — the ж lamb, but it s 
but in some of the land h here erei a 
. 
“Hooghly dean 
rary pec not 
nd parts present first, and 
nie "Ah р as previously 4 
of 5 feet, and if this is . 4 
drained; but when this — | 
Б difficult 
ance hould always be avoided, yet i 
epherd should urnished | 
