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On Tliorough-D raining. 
exists amonn;' us. I cannot close this paper without one word on 
tile and stone draininjj. 
We have attended to all that has been said on the subject 
during the last lew years, but 1 do not think any addition has been 
made to our knowledge ; at all events, no general change in our 
practice is contemplated. We were certainly under the im- 
pression that our mode of draining was well known to agricul- 
turists ; and were much surprised by the announcement made in 
Mr. Pusey's summary of the progress of agriculture in the last 
four years, that it had only recently and by accident come to his 
knowledge. Our drains afford a waterway of 15 square inches 
in section : to obtain a similar one with tile would involve an ex- 
pense utterly beyond our means. Besides, they would be as liable 
to stoppage as our own. Such is Mr. Moore's experience, and 
such is my own on a small scale ; tiles laid down in boggy soil 
on my own farm many years ago have ceased to act, and when 
es<amined are found to be full, and for the most part broken. 
As for stone-draining, I am at a loss to guess where the 
material is to be got on heavy soils ; certain it is that the road- 
surveyor in our neighbourhood is glad to ])ay As. for 25 bushels of 
picked stone carried into the roads. And 1 suspect stone drains 
would quickly choke. 1 made one small drain six years ago in 
this manner in compliment to the new system, and it failed in a 
year or two. 
I do not suppose that my description of our mode of draining 
is clear enough to enable farmers to adopt it without inspecting 
the practice ; and I think there is some danger of the system 
getting into disrepute if it is attempted. Surely it would be 
worth the while of young farmers from the undrained districts to 
learn the practice by a short sojourn on the farms of some of our 
best drainers, and thus copy the professional man, who obtains an 
accurate acquaintance with his particular science by studying each 
department of it in its own especial school. 
Buxhall, Stoivmarket. 
I. Suffolk Draining. — 2. By Samuel Jonas. 
To Ph. Pusey, Esq. 
Dear Sir, — I went over to my father's yesterday to obtain information 
respecting thorough draining, and I here forward you the information 
obtained. Mr. S. Jonas, of Great Thurlow, Suffolk, states that lie is 
aged seventy years, and that his father died fifty years ago, and was aged 
eighty years ; that he has heard his father talk of hollow draining, and 
that he had the tools his father's men used for tliat purpose, so that you 
may fairly conclude tliat hollow draining has been done in my own 
