THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
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LAND DRAINAGE REPORT S continued. 
cE AND DATE. | Extent | Cost per Soil. Direction of Bras Depth of Space Size of tiles. Cost of Cost of tiles. Material: 
Pra | — sa Sade. 1 Lont desing — a 1 4 After Draining, 
a R. F. K s. d. Feet. Per Perch. Per 1000 feet 
Claines, r 
shire, 1843, Ge. | 75 0 0| 510 © Strong loam on Down the slope 30 to 36} 163 — id, per yard 23s, =| Tileandsole)Rid, à yds, „ Swedish Tum. 
f gravel wide; Wheat, | nips, Mangold Wur- 
— — — mi The produce in- 
ased 20 per cent, 
- Wooler, Northum- i fallow. oh 
berland ... 250 0 0 s Clay, and various -è 30 {18 to 24| 3inches by 33 zd. per rodj22s. ; 6s. for Tile and sole Rushy in fur- 
i soles rows, clay] in 12 hours after rain, 
land wet; 
j and naked earlier, and 83 per 
i ‘ f fallows. cent, better, . 
Parbold Hall, Wigan| 29 0 Of 5 0 0 jOpenstony marl} Greatest slope 36 Is ins. of stones Id. per yard roken ~ Very greatly benefited, 
stones 
wT o 26 0 0 — em we ave ove 23 inches ve 248. Til 1 i m 
Ardingley, Sussex... 100 0 0 3 15 0 Weald clay Greatest slope 48 {30 to 50 166 21. 158. p. aere ane wil Greatlyneeded Eight or ten bushels of 
{ draining — oe wae acre in. 
Belfast, 1844 15 0 0 Good quality | Down the slope 30 18 25d. p. 7 yards Stones and * Wretchedly bee 3 drained is 
i tiles in want of | driest and best. 
265... .. 9 17 8 0 = 42 30 6d.p.7yards| Tiles draining 
Downham Market, i i 
Norfolk ... «| 50 0 0 Gravel & coarse} Land nearly flat 36 60 #4. — a per Tile and sole Rushes and Perfectly drained; pro- 
s i water mising Oats. 
Se ̃ ö 
THIN | SEEDING v. — FEEDING. 
3 
1 mpe ales th E” possible — in 
meeting o scare y philosophie and 
most intelligent frend, the Rev. G. "Wilkins. His eru- 
and varied powers of observa- 
tion and comparison agree teh with much good feeling 
an immense exuberance of animal ite, — 
him at all times a most exciting, amusing, a 
always be extra — of 
mole’s 
at Roviy: two years ago, a piece of W 
12 quariers per acre from merely (I believe) 3 quarts 
feed. The ears appeared to be 7 inches long, an 
e 
thin E is dependent on a 
e a 
N 
your — is ga arden-like in depth, m 
rain is carefully i 
season, if e 
your genera 
wry Earn — satisfi 
miiie o doubt a — and 
= thin sidii. 
know a striking instance of this, in or case of 
„of Colne, in Essex, who every yea heat 
on the same land, ee 2 — ughs it, it, bat —— it perfect] 
7 dibbles 14 Pon — acre, 
q 
When I bw this crop 
, with an 
ordinary 
friend, it is on account of his rance of state 
à sort of florid exaggeration, which is is not £ permissible 
or desi i eH business 
instance echi is now the — seeder 
he knows, in ally implying that no other f 
in this kingdom so much as six pecks! hema 
wish it true, but we all of us know (and I th 
our friend Wilkins must too), that double that quantity 
is very extensively sown. Even our d can 
friends % over the border,” scatter hi 
n 
your readers 
be a fine pienzy ro 
d for suppre xaggeration. He 
forgot I ppoe” that in in the slg N of 1848, he, 
rs, lost his Wheat 
plant s those eln “lvourers — oat we cannot 
rop. 
3 friend — 5 = pind I meant 
my Whose » a — uld in cand 
ve added 2 if i 
3 bu . Rae Wheat, 
nstruc- | fluids. 
w 
the ‘charge, and — 
treatme I| th 
and | mi 
him 
t | They must certainly realise Dante’s e 
8 
advantage of a 
Mr. | (one aves many 3 expressed th 
tatement, 
ere per | v 
his gen 
tha views 0 e iocre condition of 
i — I shall —— 3 ashamed (agri- 
 eulturally) of my native coun il I see it using its 
in ke rfi 
yo! 
ire flagging, 
x pecks 
pec 
that ae tee — that 
8 1 
as though a troop of wild horses had madly frolicked 
h 
The desideratum is to have a — 33 orop, free 
xelude air and light 
poneo on my 
te Peas, 
Now imals 
d cereal friend very y unfeeling to so vereng the nerves of | sal 
ead 
your re humane 3 
— of Gè living Kimdi animals! 
expression— 
„ Lasciate ogni speranza voi chi c’entrati.” 
But — stands the fact! T are perfeetly | 
clean and healthy, without effluvia, ad — not 
feeding, lying in every ible easeful posi The 
exha tations exist only in my frie frien i 
ment at Mr. Wilkins on —— it with | 
ks produce the s. 7 mig I adopt that o 
zagan Bea hite 
1 a wise man, and 
pey of ladies to whether a visit to thèm 
ould a ee eye or nose, 
Wilkins speaks of h of Wheat and Barley. I 
shall be happy to — a . of each, oe 10 acres, 
him for a wager, which d be the payment of the 
expenses person who d decide 
ned between us.” 
Home Correspond 
Rancid —_ —I should feel extremely poner on 
any information i 
h 
have been — EA most horribly raneid butter. . They 
are fed entirely on Grass, which they get for themselves 
n upland pastures, weeks ago the butter when 
fresh made was rancid, but now it i is to all appearan 
i fro 
— 
n REER 
nliness 
the management o perfect 
the buttermilk . — ‘tnd? 
— and is 
W. C. S.] 
—9 Mechi's Farming. 
buke a wise man and he will love thee. Give instruction 
he will be yet wiser.—Zhe Proverbs of 
No man has done the farming interest more 
one my esteemed friend Mr. Mechi ; 5 landlords, tani 
ned in my con- 
floors will be a 
| practices 
-~ | worthies, my friend Mechi tau 
and in 
d labourers, 
| commencement of his agricultural career, he boldly, 
wisely, and 3 of the elamour raised against 
him, struck at the root of 2 on . absurd 
udi ith a 
d preju 
— elucidation of truth. 1 — on aay 
resources 
| ploying the 
nd tenant neglect alike off 
well intersect our gardens 
worthless and serubby — wa | fenoesy as to per =e * 
encourage such mon fields, I wis 
could say national —— J. J. Mechi, Tipirechal, 
Kelved un; June 27. i 
— I have read Mr. Wilkins’ attack on 
system of tle, sheep, and pig feeding. I must 
have seen it about same as he did, and I can 
only say that I y di from vi 
ti He must not -y have seen w r 
anp 
| eames dun 
‘straw cut into 5-i 
j cleaned out for some 
nee 
movements on open — — In conclusion, I shall or excellence to pursue a plan ly because it had 
say, as my frie end does, * Come and judge f n in operation for hun ears; but that the 
you I don’t at all — of our rev. friend’s | antiquity of a practice, uropean farming 
— hae —— h per of ath age ge ations, ratl an its being a proof of its excellence; 
mparison, e. and i 2 ment. an index of its absurdity, j answer 
I annex an ex et 1 — note just received from | 2 * obtain f rom Sareea to why they pursued 
very worthy clergyman, * is also a good agricul- | | this plan or ec all other 
turist and a magistrate of our | they gave 
n conclusion, I like my friend Wilkins all the better no othe 
or his lette vocation of — | which 1 
eral be found. 
every hedge and grub 
peme by * and example, 
what at all times had been a 
