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o GARDENERS CV unOniCLE.” ed gardens resist frost infinitely! better than wet | the undrained or ineffectually-drained acres under 
ANTED the FIRST. ncaiaotpaneie f the “GAR. sions the aoe is warmed, and crops ae ed earlier ; tillage ; and as the strong te are those which — 
py, bound or not, will find a PURCHASER by addressing a the trees is greatly benefited ; the quality of | most in ae of drai nee, and are also the best W| 
stter, stating the price, to W. B., 154, Strand, fruit is fe improved, and its quantity augmented ; | lands, it may be assumed that fi ve-sixths of the ow 
: pn and canker are comparatively unknown, om meray: y | under Wheat may, om being drained, yield a quarter 
) e @pe Garpeners’ ChHronicie, inds of noxious insects disappear. What is true of | more per acre on the average, which will be a little 
gardens is a Baka rue of farms; for the teh which more than 3,000,000 of quarters annually ; and this, 
regulate the healthy condition of "plants are the same | added to the quantity quoted as the present estimated 
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1842, in all cases, and apply to Corn and Turnips as much | produce, will bring the supply as much above the 
as to P ees and Asp s-beds, demand as it is now below, which will more ng 
MEETINGS FOR THE TWO peat ecran joes anation of some, at ae of the reasons of | compensate ion deficiency which may be felt o 
cere eggeamabingntdi 20 S erect tes this important effect of drainage, we cannot do bet- | repeal of the Corn-laws, by the withdrawal of the 
_ Wednesday, Dec. 21. » . Ke pei Wi ee ie ter than quote the words of Professor Johnston. | poorer lands from tillage.” 
——: Dec.27 «+ + Zoological’. ©. 2). Shae. oo enumerating other advantages of the operation, | Nor is this all: when stock are kept on undrained 
I 
e has these observations (Lectures, p. 442): “It | land, it enn # aa — = rot, from which 
HE arguments by which we last week sought to | allows the water of the rains, instead of merely run- | they escape on t philosophically 
use the attention of our readers to the pressing Im- | ning over and often een i ashing the surface, | accounted for by alan pi an ch affords an addi- 
Pp Scarce the soil. And thus, | tional motive to the landowner for we wenn — 
it was announced in the Times that | while filtering through, not only does the rain-water | about ores the poor in the thorough dr. t 
1 } i i il those substances useful to vegeta- | his lan 
ency of the necessity on which we had insisted. It | tion, which, as we have seen, it always contains in| “ ‘There ”" says Mr. Kimberley, “ thousands of 
ears that the la rers belonging to the parish of greater or less abundance, but it washes out of the | acres, adler Taillions, that are at present worse than 
1 up i ins are deep enough, | lying waste, causing whole districts to be unhealthy 
‘want of employment. A’s ort time since nearly 40 | out of the subsoil also—such noxious substances as | to man and beast—acres that will not es a 
ns belonging to that parish were inmates of the naturally collect and may have been long accumulat- | or at least a sade _ cena: ere to farmers at 
ouse at Thame. Those out of the house un- ing there, rendering it unsound and hurtful to the | from 2s. 6d. to 3 all o Sinkinhe with little 
ployed made an attempt to see the Duke of Buck- | roots. The latter is one of those benefits which gra- oe if se a acne and well cultivated in 
] or the purpose of stating their grievances. dually follow the draining of land. When once tho- | a regular course of alt — nan would increase 
e Duke relieved their immediate necessities, and roughly effected, it constitutes a most important per- | in value from 150 to 300 p , forward the harvest 
ered the parish officers of Brill to attend at Wot- | manent improvement, and one which can be fully | from 14t020-days, improve the ‘lieias of the country, 
House ; requested them to call a parish meeting, | produced by no other available means. The same | and add to the produce in a direct ratio to the higher 
purpose of allotting the men among the rate- openness of the soil which enables the rains to wash i of the land” (Journ. *R yal Agr. Soc., 3, 178). 
ers and stated, that iF the rest of th payers | out vhich have been | _ In all these statements we have left the health of 
men according to ew assessment to | long collecting, permits them to carry off also such as | the country entirely out of consideration. But it is 
e-Duke) would choose eight labourers | are adually formed, and thus to keep it ina sound | in evidence that undrained districts are the m 
this share for the winter, whichis somethin g more | and healthy state. unhealthy; and vice versa. We bave not room for 
is proportion. ~ The parish meeting was ac- t we have a room to dwell in this a — oa proo of this ; those who are at all doubtful about 
called, and an arrangement made to send the reasons wh ainage is so important. ma referred to Mr. udwic ’s report on the 
bourer for each 70/. assessment to the poor-'| rather entreat  ttha to the results that ha apesdy pag condition of the labouring population, where 
; those paying less than a 701. assessment to take | followed it. facts in abundance are produced, such as no man can 
A ays a week in proportion. Later} In Aberdeenshire, and peti crops ripen ossibly gainsay. So that the pet heer of the 
formation from the country tells us, to our joy, | the land that has been drained about a fortulght poor in draining land is not only productive of hap- 
t others of the noble and the rich are takin ng asimi- | sooner than they did before nes drainage ( Prize Pi rat the reward of benevolent minds, ht of Seer 
lar. course. Essays, Highland Society, 2, p. 71). In Berwick- mportant to us all, but of h ealth, without whic 
eoltj is evident, se that we were not an hour too | shire, we are told, in the same ie land now grows eitietastlod and augmented wealth would be of little 
rvations upon the state of thelabour- | very good crops of Turnip or Rape where none coudd | service to anybody. 
_ ing poor; and we now most earnestly repeat our re- | be had before the drainage took place ; and, in general, e reason usually alle eged for not eth ‘ey 
_ commendation, that every shilling of spare money | it bears Wheat well. age universa sally i into eect | is its s supposed co t. 
_ which the country can afford, instead of being applie e hat e the oo 7 Sir James Graham, that | drain,” says Professor Johnston, “25 m iNlions ns of acres 
_ to the relief of distant evils, should be used to alleviate | land uae to him 4s. 6d. an acre, became e worth 20s. po a an acre would cost 150 Tuillions sterling ; a sum 
F istress at our own doors—among our own people | an acre, afte raring and advan ploughing, at a cost al, probably, to the whole amount of capital at 
_ —not in charity, but in the purchase of labour to in- | of 67. 18s e ; thus returning 11 per cent. on peeseu employe ed in farming the Jand.” ss anes 
4 crease the pro od vette eak of the land. It is entirely | the epee of pa was in labour (Jo oe Agr But this is a statement which must be taken _ 
: Be own fault if the land of England is not as fertile | Soc. 2, 276).) Lord Ha Hubecienis oatagy: at t Te considerable page ae perira : Peta i 
as that of,any part of the earth, provided we sharpen | desley Ha a Sia ffordshi arm, worth only | not’ ; at . ; ‘ 
our wits, and use our ample Hee and ieee 2540. "08. ‘Od: at was increased to the annual | the land of England ; aud in the next place, it ta 
__ industrious poor in rendering: it so. There is no occa- | value of 689/. Id., z s: cost of no more than | Dot be all done at hea Piguet 2 5 ye her 
_ Sion to purchase foreign produce to bri ring about this | 1,500/., an ior (i 79). far better that it s i Profen Yohinthe bm 
| end ; we need notrun all over the world in search of | « Sir Robert P peimiene am from a field of his | Indeed, in another vp es oa tn ici . <4 iii hak 
a wealth while millions of broad ‘acres lie waste in our | which was ehoroaighly — ue which before the | states that a Berwickshire farmer : r 
. . ra “ hof a| he “drains so many acres every year, and finds himself 
_ Own country—while myriads of tons of fertilising ma- | operation did hot produce more than “a brus Chewy devil the i dideek 1 
a terials are wasted as recklessly as if we melted our crop of Turnips,” he imm ediately obtained Ph times pit repaid oy ihe end 0 :* ; 
ious 
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ereig to 
; é i i os ; h d ro dr 5s hs land by the 
__ Sands of powerful and skilful hands are able to rescue | much indeed as 27 tons anacre. On the farm of | years, he can yragualiy rain ony -§ 
rs wealth from dissolving in thin and viewless Sweihetde # in wes pepe nr sy me Boswell fore ees i a hig same sum of mo (Johnston's 
: naw ie) baba e and manure are all that our | us that ined land w 52l. a-year, became, by : 
pares gh to be purchased by secur- skilful Paces prineaely by draining, without | Supposnge ns Maro hent en . tnoge a 
ing the ales of the poor ; for labour, and little | which. all the rest would have been worth Qe Wied fe; Popa, this ed UF BL eat Aci ta touts 
€xcept labour, is concerned in effecting the one and | 500/.. a-year. _In this case, thie: 7 for im- akin 
tele to a the other. For to-day, we confine our- | provements of all kinds, was 5,400/—and it was nearly | 100 80 d mechanical skill is 
ives” to alnage. i 4 @ 2 t f 
- There — be many who think that all arguments} | In peste oe Mr. Rham tells fet feats ge applied to the iounoee of drain-tiles, Be ct 0: 
to prove the paramount rtance of draining are at | Forest, land which was so rotten e 3 th 
the pr Ape a wetted it is a fet ati could not stand on it, nor carts be drawn over it, nek or Pi} Latent } Pgh aby fe to “3 
Lena admit Fe ead ok tae'| cen ie elias hen tan “i of O oe favoring that the cost of draining an acre nf fan din 
. pity do not entertain the same opinion ; Ci the | carry immediately . ards 9 Np Sh ay Hine ionaline® Vader: Baween" HE Tie. 4d. and 
there are, we doubt not, thousand: ‘of w re, terwards “a sple A ; the latter cost bei yin land 
ple who do not know what the ond (Ibid. mer b “a paaeg ea oi ie a which of the heaviest kind, where the drains cannot be m 
ar to ee ig It | immediately after bush-draining, at 20 feet in than eat apart. And, upon the Seeciea % liber 
; aining can S 
indosa, -- “i we should hear aophingel un- produced at at the rate of 18 tons of Potatoes : Ips oo abe ne are, been now sod ie Walp ar 
or there is hardly a fi . with D ements it will in all pro ity 
d not be benefited by thorough ae Be it observed ein net arena as ihe = prev agi Sh ly Pees ‘statements 2 poly 
ts, or as our Norfolk | that | that happen to be onveniently at hand. Such results | to g; but if sod-draining is eae tothe 
irface tocarry off |arisefout of the nature of things, and therefore no| it will Nt cot above, 1684 ac ee ord 
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; but of that effectual cadre nd drain- an ; “uae ae ae ye al in wet | Spencer's t tion that this ibe of lair requirés, 
aie gees oer P en ao Op ote 38 as to hope to es ory ae. oe very little renewing in 
y their hea er. ” this 
tches, qpeping ‘nie inte agin cellent phlet *, which we particular aWe cannot oe often repeat that the ‘ung sf 
| 3 y wenn tm 
ing,.the want of which recommend to our readers, Mr. Bailey “meena cipense bet wba a ‘ened 
ofess land-agent has given him e poor, W 
rainin Kg. the element of | ence in these matters, says—*‘ It is admitted by yal pers, 
and partly because it is effected by no | who underst tand ce cent ro ee 
of employin; cone lt been” carri a - ‘Berg, # bub ot and with 
ch insist “. ra for it ma ine skill’and energy, or I quarter of 
eat ee hey wah say wtf acre has bee beaded tothe an 
> done 
d the advantage id be fe be fel in in the harvest next 10, 000, 000, out of 12,000,000, are 
: an Sal cave naam: sgricul- 
isa of land increases its ferti Dy, aches sanacpiastinion, Wet Can SESE a 
ae oreo end haeaieee ae ey. Well- | Denton, Land-agent, Ridgway. 
