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THE teen Be 
E AND AGRICULTU 
. 
RAL GAZETTE, [Mar 7, 1859. 
— — 
statistics "x 
wledge of its X 
t have hin- 
publication of e agric cultural 
country, accurate kno 
aval produóe would no 
the country, stands out made as it 
were more conspicuous By its very absence—unrepre- 
sented, unable in such a glorious list to point 2 any 
refuge for t the untortun = British farmer, any 
n fin da 
E even with more reg gularity du uring the exha 
hat after mene 2 5 experience, a — 
ni siodic cally mea would show with t ihe Wells 
accuracy the quantity of w ater i in a stratu 
1 
o or his widow 
ds gricul- 
"Wh 
rp 
a a resting: pha z 
— 
18 
1+ 
hrs ugh it te of 
drawn as perfectly from the im 
= as from all o 
of the sind rise * 
e country o 
a ns as its food sets n if it can anyhow 
ascert — 
f|be don 
she whee nation is i brimful n" 
n the rear of good works? Why shou 
as s agriculturists, te a bre for the rece = 
"i oorer and less fortunate hy 
be 
cha: ch: 
hot we, 
tion of tho E 
and our 
Pen, d ‘ec ate 
e 
en aien foe 
x we refl 
My o own opinion is, 
ps eA that the same he that rules 
charge of subterraneous water on a large scale w 
cena the discharge of water from soils b. 
dra In 5 
a — 
a 
from. —* In at unbroken g 
ground pes 
ason 
very dier 
bit — poverty whic 
nas in every othe 
can say tha E - es 
cer- 
e? 
are less frequent, or his chances o pem 
g ot c r 8 ted with 
rain, ater will Ki vadua ally. a level 
throughout ; ; should there be any depression in in he 
will im pools, the level of w x 
ide the 
pervious to or reten- 
r les 
when getting in the Mangel tain. 12 then, Should hei n hiesuffering and h ist tr nt am tive of ARR rem the inclination will 9 à 
Wuzzd. A is sone ied " eee n of the lat ount of friction or resi istanc ce. whi ch i 
le farmer in nties, |! 
throughont the length and ena of the . fei f inclination tind P a 
we wee cal attention " "the erase ben vant solace — every suffering class but his own or opera rations must ^d conducted; and the | 
largely extended growth of this root as compared | Let iik Bliss | + d the depth of d ; 
id the S. EET common n Tar amip, The diffi- Let u us rem ove e this r TO: bach us grea at p ween an je depth o rains deter . 
With « of theo table a list, whi up e influence and | practice o teo... 
culties which are increasing in the way o is rae d the dignity d eee demand, [I am assured | soil above the “subterranean level, |, which ‘shows ited 
E n whether they be e and the bare mentio uch a project for the ameliorati e ground at every furrow; the difference between 
J the pis nt „itsel M ac S. and ES relief of bus de hile at complain not, | the partially drained ridge and the undrained furrow 
attributable e deficiencies in — 5 the will spee edily realise such a appy an uch-needed | is too well known to need any comment 
viruleuce of inseet attacks, seem as like *r Towards the fulfilment of such an in the remainder of the paper, was to sho 
the f: * s the merits of object I have received promises of hearty and zealous | efficacy of deep over shallow drains, at a time when the 
the to draw | support from — — — ing — —— md point had not been decided in favour of 
him, A crop of: 30 tons, which i is more easily ob- implement ma n the kin my argument was founded on the theory of the 
tained than another K — 20— which i is as useful cordially mie "with the suggestion, a Y Y mow water line. ere is another condition of 
for either — eep, e requently found in this neighbourhood 
months — ha “AS 800) | as sufficient be noticed. There v tensive bed 
goo 
other voile in four or five, oug 
mand a more rapidly increasing cultivation than 
replies. are received, a publie 
ee appel See and then 
I have good reas recognition 
of clay to the north of the Chalk or 
which form a large portion of the counties of Ber 
and Buckingham e 
and — np: of the 
is from localities known 
btaining. = 
0 is ubt the difficulty in its way is 
the mewhat more liberal manuring, if | c. e with pe 
x to end it to tke good will ofa imt- parts, as here in Oxford and its wegen 
the sul nent « crop of corn is not to suffer t roses tts frie We E fi ue add | clays are covered with a drift or gravel, reine í 
its tha But it Mes urists and Tem 8. e therefore only a X 
to land. er that any who are sposed to join the movement water, and conseque tly requires 15 be drained, Ibis 
all the farm manure fhat ma fitin don Ade "en — to him at Tiptree Hall, found that the surface of these clays undulates it 
8 eimh aud dépend PTS NE P certain directions; hence if drains. the le 
ate | 7 way of these undulations the . is stanked ba 
rather than ran as Ta has vators in — up T UE EU ee by the ridge on either side, so j deep dra 
the oe 8 unties always do of m À MÀ Mairie will draw only a short Sit w je dra a be 
erop altogether, however liberal onchuded from p. 393.) e water e 
the deis o fon Ho the du - Ix the yar 1840 I desi gnated this inclined line the| these subterranean furrow hat a a 
VIE or in the v wey — 5 s give me a better term and I will use it. The e — is Foha " Yi the opposte 5 — 
00 ^ » 8 j 
£ à n th i 7 t abour and t he This x r alates the 8 of all subterraneous ge ologist, . that DL . Au 
ES | throug winter. The h ting | water, is. OF Whigh i never Iove. fe 
addition o — — Nen pr roofs sont bé brought forward to show zm im of | V 
bill of October and November r—but i 
ut, Kimmeridge and Oxford , clays, and —.— 
Mr. "Mzcnr's benevolent object needs no word 
0 MM 8 asd ro referee to it, s E 
i he Ke stem, 2 
rs and breeders of stock of Campi — — 
Per cw nue =g — summer, There 
waters in the eart tarded 
1.41 
eythorpe sy 
rie d for universal 88 d 
If the rth w 
in in their exit, springs would fail what their waters: are 
eg. and o ur rivers would be hke 
| 
far as my ‘own n experience and observation 
right in 
rom frost than 
— 
an 
5i 
waters 
rudes babes —— 
ke ce 
m The actual inclination of the water level is best 
„ascertained by Rs be Kan ee da of wells; the! level at 
s quite 
that the raining to ‘eonditions of the soil should 
by experimental dra trial holes, but there? 
| reason to believe that i in I wails except! when e 
by beds qus or gravel, there js any ren 
tion, 
which 
— — . M diete water is 
JE ch 
cutting drains in pi ction, except that e 
bodie inp water 55 “ 
the escape of subterraneous pen. Spin e 4 
nti 
ties are 
6 and 
— 
of straw 225 all 
— a 
irian impermeable prim — 
S ick the water is found. There is — 
in mms wel 
those 
1, namely, un 
think, fail 
cannot, „ 
. — d lg ie 
brooks or bourns.at high levels, cial 
chal dite , Though many strange theori ries Ti 85 
—— 
e -hearted m: an who hs — > it, 
do — — = its nantes - 
[d The following is 
yai like * England, teemi 
thropy, and exhibiting su viene, ee gratta 
in the profusion s her ch where pati s art: 
commerce in all it extended we ena th the eln 
the naval an milit itary professions 
E to its pn Chee erected and ai ede by 
nty of those who ose hearts 
8, 
urch, 
point with | 
bef found on ascertaining x relative levels at 
bow urst out where the surface of the soil 
age at Mex tbe — sme 
bourns may » etid b: — 
pec ES & inii xad rite — — 
m 
He 
ve spoken of the condition under 
us mde cu 
their free 
er | struck teh the he rapidity » wi 
— 
nage is 
doubt rm — but 
soils, sa ays the wg! ot eu 
that 
yo e; it 
er m 
Ig evaporation ; eei nbn bota v 
diam: into the earth; the reason I 
rte dy Re capillary attraction t0 
iod ae 
emm 
Be Aua ag 
charity, ¢ ture $ where, by ther 
containing w. 
itself to them: if the sce 
ii 
presence of free water in tie 
proving the action 
T | the natural s 
prings, 
ken eod eee 
— * the wall —. an cared for, and — 
y | level at vari 
water i in the ear earth. 
ious — 
springs w I 
s the natural adj adjustment of 
— variation in 
Pedir em gene- 
crime was misfortune, is ebab 
comfort, Whi le c this 
wide- 
in- 
z as she does the most im- 
rally as of exhaustion a 
“replenishment. by rainfall takes 
| gradually rise iu a great 
from the vent or ontfall 
very remarkable TH ; 
of them 
in M when | se 
the level will 
portion as the distance | 
; this is marked by a 
the same e process will 
which havi 
and which I — suites d 
— information, namely, that 
ractio —— again 
which have been carried 
scending water; “this may 
t 
ex 
take 
spring water, and may be seen in the. 
aer by a white deposit on t9" ^ 
