GRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 



JMarch 01 



[her sorrow and anger I reflect on the folly of those who, 



■ and want of forethought in Borne farmers 



Led and winding 



P re " I ditches, the want of care to keep the Grass and Sedges 



I ,. * « 'the ram does come. If you employ a hedger he 

 pin- is sure to leave you a legacy in the ditches ; and of 

 * hv eoaiM your men get snugly under cover during a 



ef, and then a circular pipe placed on the top of the 

 es to prevent any earth falling amongst them ; 

 ,.,lr..ins were only 12 feet apart, cut obliquely to 



, 40 feet, and 50 feet, the depth 



jround declined, each drain being 

 jen ditch. Three years' observa- 



icious clays 40 and 50 



*.' I think thwe is 6 

 >ming di 



drains 



ified to find them all as perfect a line of pipe 

 n first put in, not one of them having moved 

 tion in the slightest degree. In fact, although 



perfectly drained at 30 feet 

 irr on the safe m : 

 ">ut little danger as to pipes 

 py soils if properly done. I 



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«.-> triiMeaitheres ■! 'he tiel.1. Iheditivr 



inning. If water was only poured in as fast as th 

 west tap would carry it, the three upper ones woul 



ne above the other would empty the land quicke 



The power of soil, 



■r^STL^^io^Pennea, 



permeability. /. J. Mcchi, Tiptree Hall, March 1 



»F32 WH E N A we R c I CULTURAL LI . TERATUR ?- 

 ^nlt*?**?™ well-drained ! Sd ^II?* >° ^™ ^/^w's pwdedSJ? 

 not ! is it not exS 8t,D d *° SUPP ' y the ne< " 



ti must be admitted of its rZ I""?**** 

 set them at rest ? Above 70 yj^ *T i 

 mrpose of giving certainty to mlnvTut ^^ 



,"T£?r A x\Xrr^ 



very great, even at the present day, for nnUl* 

 proaching to it has since been given to the Z? 1 

 many of the questions his experiments „.Sr5* 



My though 



i, especially where tile 



ppointment as to much of the matter ' ** 



ibers of the Journal of the Toy" l£2 



to the public at great cost and with the Rg 



■i 

 such as should be followed \ In the last number^ 



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have been lately admitted din 

 for instance, the practice of growing tt 



be consistent with good farming. Among the <M 

 communications in an early number an Mr. 



clay soils. The proceedings of the Society h«B: 

 high appreciation on these papers, and 4 feet dniiir: 

 clay soils has become very genera ; 



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growing grain ; and \ t -u- Hun^l u; Di 

 ago, and Arthur Young still earlier, are f**, 



the vegetable and animal remains in a soil Mtfc}* 



In speaking thus of a work on which son* 

 money is expended, and such pains are btstoni 

 would not damp the zeal of those whose efffl** 

 . but rather lead them to «** 

 how much more good may be effected by the p«» 

 tion in a cheap form, for the use of small M* 

 of an agricultural library by recognised wWJ 

 on the plan of the farmers' series by the W 

 for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, * » 

 desirable it is that some portion 

 should be so applied. There are gentlemen w 

 works have been before the public and show* 

 quite capable of the undertaking. I wiU *J 

 Professor Low of Edinburgh ; how can the m 



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for general reading and the farmei 

 Young's Diary is at present almost the ^"TL 

 to be found there, and a very useful work ""^."r', 

 modern change calls either for * 





