THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
[Jan. 18, 
pings and gatherings, e will be found in all 
pases pri the farm I have also adopted the 
se of 
has been inclosed by impervious soils, so that it could 
nat escape, and has been thus force d up | in place of oa 
ing 
laa 
own, 
aes z young Clover wit th it 
n the | 
Il have seen instances that by tapping ea 
J 
o April, o 
ays a d 
oe ha rs 
I shall merely call your attention to one "te 
whio t ‘furrow- ee at ow mpr soil- Pen about fiv 
yea s ago; 3 itis we ell kno 
found. le 
crop By 
a a ve more a crop for all his labou 
Be Be 
rest of th It was cut ten or MaS roa earlier. 
be 
rmer who had 50 acres of the same kin 
set Pot tatoes on guano, lime, and soil, and fi 
act you run the 
than that on 
do this 
d | down the hil and any accidental eine 
1 the Time, pae as onl 
f a lar 
L setter 
that a fa 
(without paying any rent for it) 
fortable livin ng o off it. After being fate. drained an 
i e fir 
taf that Beld 
Da ishia a 
ts on guano, and ad an excellent. erop: I had 
acres formerly. 
„But, gentlemen, it 
ich the old and new ate ems 
wow : got aes it nearly 137. more than I paid an 
w have, it was then in such poor 
ae 
st year, I put | it in ime an 
nips 
ye had 
the English acre. 
Flax and Oats 
= 
t 
are to be Nine times out of ten it is the 
ve from ‘the edie Nee falli ng on A ae ee, 
can way, only drie up b e 
vaporat 
same field ; and “ast season it „grew a crop A Oat 
t get a and is 
which averaged in 
i had | lf an aore for a Po- 
stan hee" OMA a sae to decide 
J. ‘Gitilans who nae oa bong a in vous othe 
co and also again: Albin. 
small farmers have never Cheon at all upon the effects 
hick d , bate 
FT rte pueden off this feld, v 
£ 
produc ced by this evaporation. They sa y, fro 
T 
> the field, and the Pi is, =, the 
cede 
+ 
7 PAE a 3 
they have never 
it (of inferior quality) fo 
other, which I think is a ver 
ent thro aii the farms of the different compe- 
10 are John Beatty, John bromo the mist 
lock last year, and Jacob A I belie 
ld nearly =n portions — of ‘hind — pred 
each—and I c te di 
1 d 
allude d, and the “cold ia o giera 
any of you will take off 
rm i Wagi so as to completely 
RA —, sleeve, ae then hold both an toa 
to which Ih 
3A On 
had o: 
good roo of of tthe E NA to be a from fan 
draining and subsoiling. The drained portion wa 
the soonest ripe. This field has been lately ploughed 
and any one that recollects what i t was s be for rew will 
n both ikilisi, does ia great ‘credit. 
abour and n 
illiland’ s farm i is naturally very compact, bu t has 
nie wind. The SIRER fro! 
pics ty thereby produced is yf sgh hg an “idea of 
the —- west in i the wind passing 
s green crop hy very good, en everything 
ie stock he 
fying exactly what Mr. Blacker has just explained. 
_ Mr. Peg AE SMALLE here said—When Mr, 
n, formerly visited us, I compa 
the cold. es penetrating. Now, gentlemen, in furrow- 
; for if you 
me tha t ae = ones, which I had not thought w 
f Dea 
that I ‘had not pau to fill the drains, but he show 
a orth 
e the : 
We feo 
ind 
Jacob Albia’ i, which is ams eat. Hel 
t is well Jabóurėd; ‘and i in very good örer, 
water Eee in it 
very best of all fo or that purpose, 
antity of ; but 
these parallel a drains are dug, the water oozes out, S 
g 
As far as my experience goes, ] I eat say that 18 feet 
ne condition. e whole 
Tr, as we believ e hi im to hay e the best supply í of win nter 
consists of four cows and oe heifer. John Beatty’s | as you often see the dryness in summer crack it on the| Mr. SKI G.—In regard to draining I differ very” 
farm is so well situated, Sei is no fault of the | surface; and through these cracks the water is imme- | much in as ESSA fon. those eee and froin 
farmer’s. He bas only occupied it for a few w years. It diately eee into the drains, and the land is da what et hear se day p ro mulg ae d, on that subject. I~ 
is much weightier and more € ifficult _ But, gentlemen, the superiority of t the expec and the ria 3 
other competito f hat 1 9 pposing any , While tha i 
per ed fren well. The stock consists me mand see cartying off both under and upper water; it h th dant, and 
T i 
nother ost important use, which I thi 
i | likely fet ere have never turned their attention to. 
It is now about 12 years since, in the small pamphlet I 
he 
h te to expres 8 my opini ons — and candid $ 
The pes and paramount necessity of ange nage draine 
er Sioa 
ht it pote not so 
ed. It most 
sea He has 
of the other two, ge hit at tit fis 
appear, owing to- the wa y it is uate 
w with the soil, I pointed out the change, which you 
must all have _witneseed in the nature of the yellow, 
till, wh 
a precur sor of successful cultivation, is now fi ully ad- 
mitted by every sensible man, and the experience of 4 
success of complete drainage has - ttle a ts questina 
that he re differene 
ad, _ therefore, the 
place of Wheat t or Oat 
The CHAIRMAN tid he regretted the 
| troduce a constant current of air tough the soil to the 
food for his stock for every season of the bar ¥ 3a defi- | ja new- -made aiteh to form the bank. _ This cold till, Jin 2 betwe een I 
iency in this particular is tł ly fi becomes fruitfu most T Beeny executed, Er at 
hats wiar rip iming o ingie em eit em in | good soil, Whereas the siat of the ditch upon which th lt and ong 
y sed i. cing ets pores! it's the hat will bear a great de discussion. I belie 
he iy that por Ae be wits T att bate th  scärcity h be for $ nae soil, | that every system hitherto adopted will be found 
y d s at they in- 
Gilliland of agers. fr the cloc k, which it was 
of the fodder pont fort 
piney of ie sok; but this was a fau lt that nes be | | 
and it 
n fa’ x these sy k 
which I nove ADART are , filled with water. Now 
all know that when a ‘cask i is full you mie geta Cat 
ou b ole in the 
remed 
See > in re: 
y | ee oan occupies 
and 
even thou if bottom 
ut 
what takes pl 
3 ets 7 
s the space h the 
ain, wh 
Mond nice had wsoaniaed the Torito ot the 
~ sre in Se 
CHAIRMAN her rina to propose, as a toast, 
ratory to ths consideration of Furrow Draining, 
a ia first subject o 
eh drives out the air, 
and be ae entitled to public approbation than thi 
i eines, who had perhaps gs double the ar 
drains that his land raapi T deem it absurd 
Slaat. pasok” “of 
Il th soils T Ireland require a cera oi 
like quantity of drainage by the acre, the drains all the” 
wh ich it is oot 
ich for the back 
1 
a 
and at 8 
IN foot. 
—say y rom 
Thes a 
by the practice of atmitiog with the plou 
of Mr. Smi th, of Deanston, a man who 
oe p 
and L that this Kaaa ‘aa ll be the test of 
n E 
ugh, 
and by these 
by the spade and two-pron, nged grape ; 
all the Besos this I consi 
a great Sadak, into which t e advocates of the wh 
other man in existence.” 
o that period when 
United “sees: age es any o 
He 
said—We it 
time made fertile, pn warm, and early, and the ai air is | 
of the plants , which i 
Deanston system run, t the 
NESE pms by Mr. Smith i is the very best xno or 
nS 
diseussion 
process, the necessity of which is exemplified S tie 
e greater portion of Scotland ka 
of England, ie for all such heavy and retenti 
ing mean 
furrow-draining 
and dow n the slope, | 
5 
z: 
ean eng 
1 think it plain th 
50 or 60 years’ standing, which have, neterteln | 
been killed by laying around them a a tity o of clay | 
would e 
Deanston. 
one and the same thing, 
Wal 
aoni fr p aAA? » and the 
syst m of „draining, all mean 
the town, which clay prevented that a acces 
their roots, ore — necessary for their e 
and ‘seve the fall, at regular “distances from each other, 
oi the dep th of 30 inches, a passage for the water. being 
erhap oo much into pitou A but I 
cannot Kelp. thinking t that it = veo gratifying to many 
who hav e bee uch occupie d with ‘the mene 
— public roads, to be care- 
P 
Hi cl nd mud 
3 
i what uy may en often observed satisfactorily | be 
al 
d 
on or scraws, the alow 
soil, taken out, should b 
prevent the d 
down, over which the sub- 
As it is pedu sree he desir: 
have practical testimon support theory, I 
able to 
ny to all 
upon some whose experience will ena’ ble “them 't 
will c 
o vive 
Foe Me testimony to the truth of w hat I have said ; and 
a. Tisy are told that i ‘they intend to ae th 
h the sides it 
t all tk and they c ome 
the demesne, at oe oem adding that the onl 
which I 
in a great aoe en rd any pe Arh mi ay think 
ka the nature sd effects of fanow raining have e de 
here 2 at i 
often “ge 
Teča it as 
is omaette r to 
ny s to say this is aot "the 
daio ng season, T ra scarcely ride 
out seeing people running their 
rcon PE slope, in tora $o 
ee aia 
that the water 
Mr Smi th 
whic 
l. to 107. EA acre ; this is a settling ci 
We know what a “go 
coe a poet excuse is is to an Trishman. Wha tIw 
[i TET drins hag experience in both x gig aap, oe oe pee od fal a 
a out your gripes and wai si -corses make a good f fall, 
i Arae these eight or Sue years past. deep ioin drains Lee tps 
ree 
m carefully, so that t they] 
ing would 
R armer tows ne lis land i. wet he can weiter put 
crop in season nor take it out; neither will it 
a land-spring shows itself run 
dee cep, cies cy it, cnt ting the a ata ye rig an 7 
and discharging into the n dra As 3 
ell; w 
Aren sedla, presenting always a number of green 
© alter 
2 en 
your ground from 16 0 ins, this you ma ar ir 4 
alwa 
patches. He must, consequently, lose one part of the 
ş 
o2 4 
moderate rate, and in X ples efficient manner, ith the 
