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_THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
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discharging orifice; 
fo advantage eous to submerge the drains pur- 
dw ба s 
rkable stat ensuite аге, 
we believe, caleula ted to лар just to the e 
to Mb ch they ; and we must гейі, 
i f the strictly |i 
hs." 
iron which des abounds in 
eart 
cultural ety's meetings, 
whether in "the edito ge. or indeed the appearance 
much sounder peut ресни arises on other sub- 
out o even roughest public |е 
canvassin me crite an 
attainable where public opinion is under the 
guidance of authority ; and 
judgment of agricultural matte 
arriv 
a manner sanctione 
fim which it is understood that. everything 
objectionable is exclude 
ing in a report 
deemed 
d es 
S| extent. 
machi 
we believe that ees T | po 
best adapted to ordinary farming purposes; but 
while determining the cireumstances un nder which 
the preponderance of advantage lay on the side of 
e engines “respectively, other 
t came up as subje 
topics o pret 
was, ie hop 
weeny altered his е H - 
ee labour, and the farmer having been compelled 
into competition with the foreigner, he felt it to 
that he should avail himself of 
ach.” 
o e now fes 
to en 
be ara hea necessary 
all the aids within his re: 
To which Mr. Tuomas replied :— 
* Four years ago it had been ны lot to n a discus- 
тиге iy that room, on the ect o achinery, 
d he then dwelt on the Poder ча decet that the 
pores of England should to a larger 
state of eultiva To we 
were met Ty a L perfect sto. 
we which he was negative 
e eongratulated the elub on 
за had — т felt that 
from its extent, involved the necessity for m 
DE 
premises and stacks at con ig oe dist 
the homestead, he should arrange du 
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combination w а oth 
OHNSON referred to the 
of irrigation, not so 
use of it a 
Mr. Curt 
fixed са) іп a МВ work o 
though that also was mentioned, to that 
which Mr. Мкснгв. farm is " goo i 
ted with 
s to the 8 of w. wate 
flow ri ian 
did. 156 
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iy mea T 
previously know, 
e other dh 
ws. 
hat latterly, at Edinburgh and som 
a 
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hood of streams which did not at present 
the land by. - mere gue, los. which might 
made à joe г b 
wt soot — his partner, Mr, 
Mr. e 
: ~ told ‘him that one meer АЛ of coals, nt 
he apr 
e observe. pes the writer of this communication the морам poor waa но Pica бнс 
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' of his his method of dra inage ing been morally, on the farmers than on any o ber 7 of 
d to some extent with the best possible | the My ; when he saw the manufaeturing | 
results." That of course is the true test of his plan; | distriets in such а high state of prosperity, in conse- 
but we must contend kg the result i in question has quence of the use of machinery, he с 
been attained in spite of the — ice as а, that similar would produce similar effects in the | W 
— ing the causes whic of agri m 
case 
13 have been in operation. We un denten che! land 
on a e ith the running water 
beide it, tani yet that by di g drains, opening 
2 or beneath the surface of this water, the 
nd pe — made sound m the heaviest cattle ; 
but to do this would jus the water more 
easily into the land, — however, the drainers 
have long since found it already is, up to the 1 
of t = stream. Not the slightest 
adya rved by sinking the mouth 
of the drain Зее the level “of the water into 
which it is to run—certai 
of excluding 
Iti is гъан to do this, either by submerging the 
М геев of the pero 
, except as apt to clog 
harmless, as being 
pipes; but to make ш —— of the 
duin undulate up and down is 
of the able salt 
| to be Ё, 2 нуман it must be 
is still present i in a | poisonous в state. 
lito e 
‚ | justifiable ‘instincts pos tendencies of hum 
making it un ndulate (0, i in order to hinder | wa 
d — 
debates 
d, on the sentiment expressed in the 
uten on any other class: the fact being 
that every "indivi idual is, as regards the pri le 
out of which all social duty springs, —— p 
every other individual of whatever class 
around him: the duty of ‘neighbour 
imagine, irrespective of elass — station 1 
And we think that a little more confiden might 
ig : — наа А iy оа 
of the piae and 
we е that the үгө 
benefi neighbour i 
in Ө EUM ual. 
ating for in 
abundantly thie b. es rs. 
other man machinery has benefited bccn 
a a have то > doubt it e I so E 
not 
= as in a 
temi vill follow such a cause 
ver iet M mere incidental point in a 
markable ev an among sc of the London 
of the water; a deep drain i is more efficien v a 
shallow one, just er weight of water 
is thus pressing its way out of the = aed and 
né eret of Mr. Duworo's success in his 
having Mee the water of the 5 as his p 
description see indicate, into the land by chan 
“nels cut — b below its level, nor yet to the pressure | fixed vp 
ed 
of the ough the shaft cut at the upper 
end tor the —— б ре just as pe an diris 
58] ас t the but to the н 
of stream as regar 
The whole question of 
whether 
na ap ga 
must be 
е up fou Moser ls Lowers far away, 
and the waters field must nd th ir way 
through it, the num ig water by ya side and nearly | w 
- ona level wi RA of 
no use OW as an exit channel f for the 
pu s me interest joues took Teila 
"Me the London Farmers” Obi И Шым 
jet THEIR Айелин Ou "The par- 
under discussion was the form of engi 
Fonas Club f bape practical and 
character. 
Mr. Arran Ransome, of the и» firm at 
Ipswich, opened the discussion. He rec nded 
as the engine most ad aga to манан pur- 
poses, for powers up t or eig at 
known as the hori tatit мебу if to be 
with the Cornish Өр and if to be 
use ortable engine, with a multitubular 
| boiler on — And on the —€—Ó of preference 
between fixed and portable e s he referred to 
the — cheapness, the e darability, less Hability to 
sto repairs, less annual cost, and less atten 
p ; and, on the i: ет, 
to ber fact that the crops might often be threshed 
ectly from the stack, and the — GC 
o the barn avoide d, and tha st farm 
Sero could scarcely be found fall er em ployment for a 
steam-engine, the use LA e portable engine might 
be shared by two or is potis 
were he farming to the extent of 400 or 500 ac 
situated "e its es 
germ 
ne per val if 
and his homestead fairly 
he should prefer to erect a stationary engine. Were 
his smaller than this, he should 
probably content himself with the e of a 
portable one, or avail himself of the advantages | 
offered itinerant shing for 
ifthe ocoupation should be one 
у: the qu MN some 
e | fixed 
die eing; we WO 
h lion A ced dosi had already been 
of On the oth 
instructive | 
a| the buildings are situated in a 
engine, which er al the superio 
p ne perfectly e clear to his mi 
aid that having beena 
as nali 
cluding Mr. 
portable engine, but a 
that he might centre all ‘the le 
ms as proofs tha 
cionis in 
t 
under these circumst: ances. 
at, at the of th 
thé sese resu discussion n 
occupation. where they 
E urpose, fi xed engines are SI erable to] por 
but this mae is nevertheless of opi н : 
the present state of agigalture, the iir 
e portable engine has been, 
_ | years, a great advantage, in 
many to avail themse 
of s ho otherwise could no 
tunity of raising steam 1 
perhaps more especially = roam maf 
i of s! may 
a means by Эче the u tim у 
more generally ај e s, and u 
generally adopted in its best form 
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