48 
On Thorough- Draining. 
1 
tile-drainage is not even limited to the Suffolk and Sussex pipes. 
Mr. Etheredge, of the Woodlands near Southampton, has in- 
vented a machine, of which the well-known house of Ransom, at 
Ipswich, think so highly, that they have purchased the patent ; 
and this machine makes tiles and 
soles both, or rather tiles and lids, (for 
the position, as the drawing shows, 
is reversed,) at the same reduced price 
as the pipes only, namely, 25*. per 
thousand of 15-inch tiles, or 20*. per 
1000 feet, at the standard price of 
coals, 20.S. per ton.* It will also make 
pipes at 16s. per 1000 feet — but we 
will say 20*. And I must ask our 
members to look at this advantage 
which our Society has effected. The 
same article which last November was 
selling in the Isle of Wight, where 
the clay lands greatly require it, for 
75*., will now be procurable at 
Southampton for only 20s. It is certainly a most encouraging 
circumstance, that as the necessity for draining is more widely 
acknowledged, its expense, both in material and in labour also 
(by the Suffolk practice), should be so greatly diminished. For 
use what arguments we might, while the cost was from 6/. to 10/. 
per acre, it was vain to hope for its general adoption. For- 
tunately too for the heavy clays, where the expense might still 
be serious, we find a simple ancient practice of our eastern coun- 
ties, which brings our expenses again within bounds. It is there- 
fore with great satisfaction that I lay before the Society estimates 
again greatly reduced below those which I presented to our mem- 
bers last autumn. 
COST OF THOROUGH-DRAINING ONE ACRE: 
Distance 
between 
Drains. 
Length of 
Drains in Fur- 
longs of 40 
Poles. 
Number of 
Feel of Tiles. 
Reduced Cost 
of Tiles and 
Lids, or of 
Pipes. 
Making Drains 
26 inclies deep 
with Plough and 
Narrow Spade. 
Total. 
Feet. 
£. s. d. 
£. s. d. 
£. s. <l. 
66 
1 
660 
0 13 4 
0 6 8 
1 0 0 
44 
990 
1 0 0 
0 10 0 
I 10 0 
33 
2 
1320 
1 6 8 
0 13 4 
2 0 0 
22 
3 
1980 
2 0 0 
1 0 0 
3 0 0 
16i 
4 
2640 
2 13 4 
1 6 8 
4 0 0 
* Mr. Etheredge informs me that his tiles do not require sheds to be 
built for drying them — another important saving. 
