634. THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. Soa 
the first place it is worth while remembering as land is seen in the introduction to it of theatmo-| — ‘LYNE, HINXW 6 
being pk one the comparatively indefinite results spheric elements which it holds in solution. The be AND KE 
of evaporation from the surface of the so oil, that | carbonic acid by its operation on the alkalies me 
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plants arise from the extension of this evapora- | into the lower state, when i does mischief by 
tion, by which the leaves of the growing plants | forming with acids in ths: soil soluble salts in- ee 
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‘but we believe that our object in cultivation main rai erved by water during system, Mr. Denton may write 
should rather be to increase the stores of food |its peroolation through the la nd is that of genet 
within the soil, and that tillage operations have | of the plants.—A fertile soil, cultivated so as t 
this tendency by increasing the quantity o of ab- | exhibit its “Portlity in the most porta manner oe 
sorbent — within the soil Be a is exposed | f has growing upon it crops whose habit and ape pa believe that the spell of the K 
to the a aracter are adapted to the climate in whi c vn | tel for him—for truth will 
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e conversion of every pou it i a ae ng e the simiri of its woot es | ae he is obliged to t 
v isy as much heat is aey a Sade as | fae wre find the soil, chemically as regards its con- | whether he will or not, without kno 
would be produced by burning 2 or 3 ounces of t and mechanically as regards its texture, nae it, oe ra ner the — 
coal; and when you think that an oe rain- be Traio as regards cons equent ¢ cle yor of | noti ereafter which draws in a 
fall amounts to 3000 t por per acre per annum, you | the land and the fitness of their re tan ont Whether from this ‘conte, Soa 
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its way taigh pret ten d. The sre iard be washed to waste; g it is Tardy ossible | oe nave ay 
of all our springs and wells if that were known to be too slow; slow enough, however, to mhi |i the + ar onda A 12, 185 
would indicate its quantity for the wera A great from the sil whatever it contains of “food for plan site ofA STe 
= rT agit d times by running over the and fast en —_ to be a ager oy bringing fresh | p But though T consider Mr. Desi a 
ace, an deal now finds its way er n supplies = ery mouth which the a, rbing | | war, T have no wilt we 
marma after arainn through the soil, Notwith- extremities E the roots of enero present allowed to serve in the Bator a 
standing these causes however, and notwith oak All these purposes of warming the soil, ‘of intro- | trary, the more he drains on the Keyt 
ing the extremely irregular sae of the rain- ducing substances within it whic shall o operate the more successful his draini 
fall, the loss by evaporation must be very con- chemically upon the mineral and other matters pleased. The world is wide enough fr wb 
siderable. Datton measured the quantity of within the soil, and of converting the soil not even stipulate that he shall cease to 
water escaping from two rain gauges, one of an into an efficient vehicle of the matters which it con- | own practice. Every one would not like 
ordin Rp d, and ent other filled 3 feet apap with tains, are answered by the percolation of water 
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E okib 4 hat eae of earth as indicated water as an enemy from the land; nor must you mening ore 
he other, and he con kee —— on the sng of aweta dti ill i ; 
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nce between the two— ustration of the injury done by water in ‘been drained in the same 
reng of the ‘ends ech reared by ences, as it is called. ater need hardly ever be | irreg tervals, 
ITA enemy, id n a er be in excess |I am assured that even trial 1 
- Dioxıx son, of Abbot's yra near Kings Drai age is a contrivance for making use of = as a | to, which we were told are ge 5 
Deiis, has for several years pied Darrox’s friend, and an ill-drain ed field is an illustration of | of the land. Will Mr. Clubterbosk low 
experiments, with results somewhat d Kae and i the mischief done by stat we there ee Tittle that it would be a great a 
his ; finding that of 26 inches per m 15 were of it or much, boner ot in motion. employ Mr. Denton to 
while as much as 11, inne more aaa It is we ver to ema the mischief that | for wipes he is so ce! 
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fifths of the 0g rain- fall, passed through may be done by. the speculated of water. If, as it which 
the soil. His results however proba ably exag- moves through the soil, it contains the food of vege- 
p the ant y of the n-fall which tablesin solution when it passes the mouthpiece of a 
in general passes through th a Tend: niles it is plain plan sea 
that earth loosely placed in rotten À gauge is much tion when it pam mp the drain hota is to convey | though it is be 
more like t the rain which falls upon it altogether away, and the waste of food for | map were too large 
it — om same Sii, ofearth can be in ordinary plants by our drainage watar is a ‘ae atter of con- | be plenty of room for it at the 
cumstances, the lower half at least never having siderable pe phe It — been most admirably | would be very in ing and 
oa adabi since the cane Poise fa ni the investigated by Mr. Way during the past Poe the extent to which the Keythorpt ® 
attempt of Mr. Minn © to ascertain the ruth is results are Monk in the following table : ad 
upon this ps by nini ihe water pear With respect to t 
escaping e mouths of s ina field of a cae mS on Wai oi ser ag ae. Water | Hinxworth there 1s @ 
aga pede tate it on the other hand prar liable manured fold cootaied|| clay contali od grains” per latter. “The te 
op take grains per gallon of gallon of eS eae 
ops : Ammonia | Nitric Acid || Ammonia | Nitric Acid | which I pee . 
hood) leads to the conclusion that a much na ae T.17 003 £78 “the gridiron,” Tal 
tity of water than either DICKINSON or. rot i ae r average to be the half of the sam 6h 
vos "seme — through the land in the | 012 ro „012 3 or B 5s. I will imi it however to r 
e yea ap it would appear from PT >m trace 485 | not mistaken, is the roe system 8 
this th that the loss on r by evaporation even in | 1006 11.45 mated before re the Keythor an land 
== aureas _ i cons erable, and therefore _— -08 | 3.91 he previa ith Hinxworth, I yo? 
e of heat by evaporation is toa great He found that the debi water i highly | Paring this wi : 
extent unavoidable. “manured fields near Farnham contained 18 thou- | Pisce gogo ap a 
colina us now, however, consider what water sandths tia of sinayo N in every gallon ; | | aai at = rte or we will say “ 
does by percolation ; and its effectshere we mustdo but as sik as 4 to 14 grains of nitric acid: ald have sa 
little more than enumerate. They areshortly these: while from ao poor arable soil in Devon- that estate, whi > the eat 2 
it carries the temperature of the air intothe soil, shire the dra wate . contained from .3 to’ th 
a thing ges eai injury of which, as in autumn 12 thousandths of a grain of ammonia, and from | other hand bad 
and winte en the air is colder than the soil, is 1-10th to as much as 4 grains of nitric acid in a | Mr. Clutterbuck 
as nothing: compare with the benefit of it inspring gallon. hand into his poc of 
when the air is warmer than the soil and when the From this it appears that ing is a ug large | , Landowners and farmers 
advantages of early growth are great. The most be i eo br Boy in e form of nitric acid | to throw your mon 
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seek of what went through the land altogether 
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deseri y Mr. STEPHENS in his exceed- | of ordin nary cultiva tion, Whatever k is, we must | 
ingly instructive little book deseri me tae of the simply bear it as a tax upon the otherwise Ney es 
is EEDDALE ber omen pete ae ti ains, advantage of the practice of land drainag rficial 
where, the Poms, seen of soil in its very satisfactory thing obse apne in the wate of | f ‘in er feeb 
undrained sta e, the cu anioi of wanes kod it and these experiments is the comparatively which you drain 
- the : in "ot ac tee nt through it raised its f erme of ammonia which ‘the sam of rain peste ei the mgr “of the 
° in six water contain, even when com with that | Gov eyan 
of ‘Water percolating through the. present in the rain water which falls upon the land. ‘an then èr sy 
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