Farmiiuj of Yorhshire. 
tlic dry season of 1826, novcr crojijioil bciioriclally for 15 yc-iiis 
afterwards ; the best security against tliis is to linisli warping 
after the winter season is over. 
These works arc carried out on different terms ; by hire at 
from 12/. to 24/. per acre according to the height of the land, the 
distance of embankment rc(juired, and the })robable time it may 
re([uire to keep tlie land under the ])roccss. When the doughs 
are the projjerty of the landlord, in some instances the improve- 
ment is solely carried on by him, the land being relet at an 
ijnproved rent when finished ; in others, the rent nominally 
remains the same, the proprietor undertaking to raise the em- 
bankments, for the cost of which the tenant pays 5 per cent. 
During the process of warping, however, the landlord remits 
one-half of the rent of the land ; the tenant sacrificing the 
other half, and levelling the embankment when it is completed : 
but this is a very expensive mode for the tenant, and is only 
carried out when the most perfect confidence exists between the 
landlord and tenant ; and no part of the county furnishes stronger 
proofs of the necessity of this confidence than the district 
where extensive Avorks and improvements like these are carried 
out. After the warping is finished, drainage follows, which is 
accomplished on the jninciple previously explained. The vast- 
ness of the system of warping will ever remain as a striking 
characteristic of the energy of the country. 
This county may be said to be about two-thirds drained with 
2-inch pipes and parallel drains of a depth of 4 feet ; but in some 
places, such as the vale of the Derwent and the lands on the banks 
of the river Hull between Beverley and Driffield, the maindrains 
or outfalls not being sufficiently lowered, the drainage is neces- 
sarily less complete. Indeed, from the insufficiency of the outlet, 
the back-water often causes great destruction to the standing 
crops, particularly in a wet summer like that of 1860. The want 
of an efficient outfall renders 4 feet draining impossible in these 
districts, and an injurious effect is produced on the climate. 
Were all tlie impediments withdrawn, and the natural drainage 
of the county allowed to flow, the agricultural produce would 
be augmented, the stock of sheep and cattle improved and 
increased, and the healthiness of the lowlands considerably 
promoted. 
As further proof of the inefficiency of the present drainage of 
this part of the county, we extract a paragraph from a local 
paper published last November : — " The recent heavy rains have 
caused the Dei'went and its tributaries to overflow their banks, 
and on Friday and Saturday the vast tract of country watered by 
that river and the smaller streams was laid under water. In 
many places the water rose to a height of four feet and even more, 
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