THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 



[Nov. 



t support our poor by 



giving them labour 



living at the expense of their neighbours, and earnii 

 an honest livelihood by the sweat of their brow, and \ 

 shall soon see that they will prefer the latter ; b 

 where they cannot get work they are compelled 



Tr-;s 



th.-ir 



judge for 



springs existed. The subsoil" was*^^ ™? ■"* 

 I retentive throughout the field ; and the Jp^fS 

 | not perceptibly more open in one part than 

 So far. therefore, as his experimenta I,,/ 11 '""^w. 

 ill be a small heap of coke, a few gallons of oil, a bit they sh 'nude 31 It ^"^ 



tow, a poker, and a stoker, and you l uce t! * ~™ dee P> wly 



i ready for the field at any time, and as for the cost better effect than 3 feet drains. The expense 1, * 

 it to be mentioned. Now em t latter 8/. 12s. 



1 



expensive 11 animalT are* daily and hourly 

 All tT -'-- 



id in East Lothian, by Mr. HomoI 

 .osite result He had seen no fee 



d correctly r 



Malt v. Ba 

 "the power t< 



him that he would greatly oblige 



uing against, as he. 



perimenteto be"©? no value." If 



Rev. Mordaunt Barnard, at Little Bardfield, 



Association, Oct. 19.— Soil, a sandy loam, 35s. 



a Clover lea, clean and in good heart ; plo 

 rember 1848. Two 

 sre marked out in the 



ictly alike, and neithei 

 Seed, Smoothy's red, 



adjoining each othei 





ir home correspondence of a late week's 

 ital « d." struck me as being one of the 



« C. B., Heacbam, Norfolk." ° Th? very^approvingand 

 almost congratulatory tone of your correspondent's 

 letter would almost lead one • 



seems resolved « Q.» shall no longer " lay on Kars." 

 "C. BY interrogatories, or rather pleasantries, are 

 generally beside the subject discussed in « l 



t*L"J™ !? *! < h ° * manation ? of ? : 



icial employment 

 *thenf will " c! C B.» U i r nvest, s^v.llO 







prospect, or pr. * 



there is no such 



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never fail, and inclusion. Probably inlnoSw 



>t have been opened very thoroughly. He hdlut 

 inter put the subsoil plough through the field, and be 



East Berwickshire : Drains- 

 meeting of this club, David Miu 

 graden, the President, read the foil 

 periments he had recently made on tl 

 to drain a 24-acre field, he took 



He divided the 



were 3£ feet deep and 30 feet apart ; in the next to i 

 the drains were 3 feet deep and 15 feet apart ; in th 



in each breakkd into a large'irai 

 at the ends ; and at the mouth of each large draiD, 

 water meter was placed. The field was drained in th 

 winter of 1847-8. It had been 14 years in Grass. It 

 last corn crop (viz., in 1834) was Wheat, of which th 

 land produced on an average 33 bushels per acre. I 

 the spring of 1848, the field was partly sown with sand 

 Oats, and partly with black Oats got from Essex. Th 



These crop?, on being threshed, yielded a 



lecessary, in regard to the black Oats, in conseq 



pearly one-half of it, shaded by trees! That the 



ulariy of grain, is evident from the for " 



reak is thrown out of view, the 

 c Oats, would be as follows :— 



The quantity of seed sown for both kinds of Oats was 



: 5 bushels per acre. The watt i 

 rom the two sets of drains was as follows :— 



i few acres shadt 

 From these res 

 svater had been di 

 i 3 feet drains, though 



:, that unless Parliament interfei 

 '^th lat 'f 8 l the burdens presain, 



espondent " C. B." has dis 



ged by the:; I 



3 feet drains, there was more 

 in the land, or went off by era] 



lhTZckfs°^J roxa which untold z° ld ia t0 ^ 



«al P panacea CIS TogZoM^TnTLrtZ™ 



e the p ickings of the small sum o: 



"'^ ■ "»uip moil mougn iavouraoie to large 

 :e in straw, was unfavourable to a large produce 



r dryness, greater warmth, as the larger quantity 



e 3 feet drains, should can 



i 3 feet drain draws. The 



club. One thing was qui 



duce amply compensated tl 



been yielded on i 



even after only six months h 



drained by him. But on the general benefits of draia- 

 ing it was unnecessary to dwell. The great question 

 now was : What is the system of drainage which could 

 be done most efficiently, and at the least expense 1 To 

 this point enquiries ought to be Bpec 



The following is a full accoui t (puMi...' d orum. r *- 

 believe, in the Scottish Agriculturist) of Mr. Hope's ex. 

 periments, alluded to by Mr. Milne : "Sir,— In reply to 



by me in draining with tiles at different depths and 



width, and were gathered v 



contiguous furrows, each 

 length, there was put a di 

 the plough-furrow. Theu 



drains, thus leading a ridg< 



2|rf. per rood, or 11. 10s. per statute acre. T 



finished early in February, 1841, and in sun 



■ - 

 half Swedish Turnips ; the manure applied bei 



■:, f,!l 



vmg that the land could be said to oe ^ - 

 ive any benefit from the draining, j^s «JJJJ 



middle of February, 1842, the field was sown wi 



.eat, drilled across, that a quantity of seed nngM 



given to each part of it. Three bushels F r ^ 



\ stack2d a and y thr e^hed separately, and the following 



is the result, per Scotch acre, the weight oi a" •"*-» 



the same, 62 lbs. per bushel : ^ stn *. 



" From the period when the land was sov ! a ' e ; a the 

 rop was reaped, there never was more moit> % 



)il than what was requisite for the growth o P^ 

 he field was grazed in 1843 and 1844. ^V 

 ifference was observed in the pasture dunugr tMJ^ 

 ear, though, in the second, appearances we ^^ 

 le portion with deep drains. In the JP""f Ang tf 

 le whole was ploughed up and sown with g«y ^ 





