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THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE, 
Ane badly cultivated land, | 
s also gene ey EAA of Couch 
In state, and | 
siricken undrained, 
a ^ 
under such E pus gement, it is of JH. as to} 
i teing i is opta, whether thick o or 4 | 
the cro t be wretchedly bad, and the farmer, 
| considerably more than mine. My readers, or some of 
index head 
them, will recollect that Me — was in 
inviting inspection of bis y year, and of pub- 
lishing hie balance sheet, a s zum him a good figure 
ad: om redit side every year. 
yt enh Mechi acen this last year had several 
seres s drilled vim 3 pik an acre, and when I saw Ld 
gic 
for ust 
whether imi. „owner or tenant, miserat bly yp oor. Nor are 
are 
e aini ing, enitivating, 
putting in the seed, and ey he erops xn 
weeds 
nob discover but iio acre 
mised to yie eld a ii muc ) 
€ Alderman' s acres, seeded with fo 
as m uch, would y ield ; in ndasd, il ven sant T aia » 
tIw 
eeping t 
are so euis — for ipt vy 
er d i 
performing these ations, a efficient ure to ra € 
manner, is not 2€ than half ae mh ee some | the ES from the be per a cre y^^ saya 
30, 40, or 50 ck, if it be so much as: anyth ing 1 aw th s Jast year elsewhere. 
half. But still, ge MEE the in ome acres done with Mr, Ha llett’s ir p 
ffecte achinery an pusha oy impleme nts, and crops a which were very larg 
indee 
Bu y my old, fashioned friends are still sceptical, 
k vore as i 
rs a ry ieri —€— phyiolgy, € 
and e remains very nearly the sam 
in the da 
= 
it 
of Tull and oe 3 wor thies 
for 
‘lends xd s knockin 
which bey had only jet por hi 
given poin 
l| with a EB moving 
m 
im 
cannot see them shaking | 0 
_ In 
compose 
upon pins, whi 
M down in the drain eem 
above it, wh 
botto 
spar see 
It 
as iiv A^ he i 
who lived at or near his + ae and for centuries before'| patien ; I know you age; RD od that found it ha 
his time, I am aware that in this statement I sball | your Inbour and st Rd ok E wish. TA could add į saw it in its feld-gate lom ; 
bring up e much censure from many worthy and that Gr ren at Britai ain is xd and glory | sarily represented t aud d 
excellent men. But ha s a MES E. more, I and envy of 4 i M. 
saw occasionally eninin, si the eus of is world. But, dE coe h 
than I do now, zem tan eom x equally as| you are sceptical, u Selous infidels as to the deg. other end depende 
orf crops as ] do now, and those ae ra he pus of what you call the new ap I wil finish. this | able 
too e hter b 
y of tho 
| 
uced 
that it will grow carey aything — renewed at al 
It is ff to all this, | 
nga muci = "be re ;joiced at, |8 
£ 
y S 
| doin ngs on mi your own s chool. 
— | last dod. “pad five pints of a superior kind of 
i ac 
die summer he called 
e his « won orf ul Wheat; S and I went several times, 
This ge entleman a 
eld, the 
re. ln|t 
s of all ki 
pn rt will be able to | 
omplish. fore, hori is aie? 
Since cereals, Pulse, and roots are £o ted by t 
same men, how is it tha M those men are so perfect in the | 
of one kin rops, ‘and, if 1 am right, s 
| I went also after it was reaped and in shocks, when I 
liked E very much, we Wheat being beautifully fine 
the ee 
and plump. But to be short: a fortnight sinee 
smit sale to tell me that he had threshed the Wheat 
| fro ‘om the cre, and, a s he expre essed it, “he never was 
» e, 
Es LE 
idera 7 a VCORE ei eie 
gs 
isdi 
MES 
surveyors, but it is principally employed Es 
inpr i in the pokig of otar ki kinds? This inqui ud 
is natural and interesting, and I think the so;ution of it | 
is by no means difficult. For examples, root crops 
or DOR, Potatos and Ma id are, comparatively | 
Ww mere Tert Peat iC into this | 
secre ry, an o latter, and as to the 
last A ae saw uy the f pas — aropo it that, I rd 
= tele ps a d which — all spo 
@ closely shut Ek X 
erop of it, whic h Isa PTS wn, 
and some of the roots became as large as any I sa 
But 
dly | abo ig 
was is wei as ue apart, | min 
th he very nature of root tarops | 
tor 
1 
t 
which was m pea or 42 bushels, w 
: oa ndi be fi fe 
than that of any other oe E bad gon and yo et, my 
friends, he farms largely. is an exam ple 
from one of yourselves of the d yield Ihave ever 
yet heard of from so very — a quantity of seed. 
e. 2. 
Geo. Wilkins, Paroda Wie, D 
See 
LAND DRAINAGE. 
of a short 
Agricultural | 
tfall is the first thing to be d 
n dra inage. The leading object is to secure a 
fficient natural outfall from the leading or mai n 
eter- | pi 
hio 
wb it Mu necessary to conduct "ecd fr 
spring head to a sampiona f distance. 
ould h do 
in a curve, to produce the same e an es j 
e: sometimes directed even a den ‘upwards | be rf 
the of discharge to r restrain ht 
Bart "na 
drain, fortuna tely water will flow on the 
incline, aud | th 
ere are very | few situations in whi ap a| 
them out thinly = sing! y, ar to] 
pa m 
ced both of E 
only of 2 in 
in 100 yards —for that in defanlt of better will su 
s mr SP or declination is so small that many barn 
er possessed of sufficient outfall, are often 
Aal and P 
Northern ea ern was 
argh introduced by a wise 
foun " 
them 
, and lead l people f rom the 
the world, the K rude a 
ments, mor M i S St and t tho e 
the Romans must yu practised d r^ 
the best ‘methods m known dur 
were in his ntl ^ 
dide qe d Sink down iry, he 
state, and thus what Jittle 
d this was 
DR ad Ea necta Neb thos 
the cg ec implement was, under the misnom 
n ed along by- c ind the 
ES the with 
oxen; EDS en 
$ € 
h : 
re than a crooked limb. 
tee E — Seer AARON e that 
is belie ved n to head TT reached gre 
eat | 
here the moving power | 
rw 
of it is confined to animals. 
then | o 
n.o and c e, or | 
D PET and err want tive smothered th gj E groun nd 
in of tick testing: | | 
e dark ages, v yw I 
of epe 
di rected as strai 
trouble to pexperionced drainers 
said Mr. P 
u 
on pe 
and Kap | 
watercourse of tod 
g, might be execu 
ing at one nae ` cross ES or via 
bet consequen ly increased 
, But 
shopar straightened or 
ber egularly 8 
und is tolerably flat, an r well 
drain b <= first cut to the proper in^ as far as the 
e les as short staff is held perpendicularly 
e gi Nr and another at the lo 
upper 
at t 
at one end the dr at 
As D Pras 
nth e e Nea. notices heh E or ot de 
eye line ordin ng as in 
i 
dede. 
| of ‘the long : etam keeps the 
when f 
straight, though Eo. ang it is curved. The 
periada, which, as M Ka in "e when f 
of the nor ures, 
But the pre 
Drag 
| fixing x roping "their fua 
h mud, 
v simplicity to © the present | this line, the bottom of the drain "en be altered so as | pond and dite 
doy, and Ie on ya years since in Gloucester- | to ma io the three oross-heads coincide. Care must,|applied is really * very littl 
shire in full ope re Aii every spring and summer, | howeyer, be taken to ascertain that the pear does | however you happen to have a th. 
covering over 3 and ,4 bushels of cereal seeds an | slope i 2 the right direction, as these staves t itg. ocate 
ber mos on their germinating and growing as of yore, regularity, not its inclination. Staves eat in str ng mayt 
p pte me the weeds should smother them instead | contrast of colours are the most readily distinguishable. seouring your outfalls is t 
f : y de ering —— But I must draw toa! The mason’s plumb-level forms a yery convenient | found undoing at that point what it 
y P € y merely adding that in my next I | instrument for the use iners. By making a/| object of your drainay 
o i$ ood in the same land three crops of | mark as far off the plumb line as will per a angle | in drainage is t| 
coe D Fley, ids nd two of Clover in 17 years, | equal to the intended fall s the drain, the le far remain stagnant either in or 
" y cui e ow, and that my seed never always keep angle of i ecd of the 1 en he drains themselyes E titer 
E e pee <n, an out i my 18 crops | Tbompson's Workman's Level is their outlet remains imperfect 
— re e e. "TTothisI add that the | lated to enable drains to be iE - ona t free flow at all times 
per of Colne Engaine, grew 14] slope. It differs only oet p aea tumb- in drains, outfalls gud ame, drains 
“te land in 14 su quei having the by batting capabl A. nk je en a rt perfeot, important, Me 
j sed was only 1 pec n that even in a nation 
ME dons was pa e p angle Ge oto p Bat ibd (A of 10 nd re Tn, pao pan dt 
