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On Cheapness of Draining. 
ing and scouring the boundary-ditches would fully and effectually 
accomplish." 
Pusey, Jan. 30, 1847. 
Postscript. — Since these remarks were written, I have obtained 
from Sir James Graham himself an entire confirniation of them. 
He informs me that more than once, after cutting a ditch six feet 
deep for some distance through a level swamp, for the purpose 
of under-draining, he has found under-drains unnecessary, the 
ditches alone drying the land to an extent of 40 or 50 acres ; and 
after 25 years' large experience of draining he made the same 
remark which I have already made, but am glad to confirm by 
his authority, that in dealing with level porous soils you should 
never put in an underdrain until you have tried the effect of deep 
boundary ditches. My own experience has shown me many 
instances of their efficacy. In one case I unintentionally drained 
50 acres of strong loam resting on stone-brash, by cutting a deep 
ditch on one side of it only in the underlying rock. Twice in 
digging ditches through swamps I have laid wells dry, one of 
them a quarter of a mile distant, which my neighbour in con- 
sequence was compelled to deepen. — Ph. Pusey. 
XXXIII. — Some Account of Spring Park Farm. 
By Hewitt Davis. 
To Mr. Pusey. 
Dear Sir, — I am honoured by your request that I should 
furnish for the ' Royal Agricultural .Journal' some account of the 
practice I have adopted in my farming. I think I may do this 
with more advantage if I preface it with some account of myself 
as a farmer, notwithstanding the charge of self-sufficiency which 
might thence arise. Yet I cannot better induce confidence than 
by showing that my plans have not been adopted from early habit, 
but rather been selected by reasoning from the best examples, I 
undertake the task to be of benefit to others, and trust my 
humble efforts will be accepted in the spirit in which they are 
made. 
It may be well for me at the outset to state, that I was twenty- 
one before I thought of becoming a farmer ; for I feel it has ever 
been of advantage to me that my farming education did not 
commence so young as to inoculate me with any particular prac- 
tice, but rather began when I was of an ag-e to seek information, 
and open to every consideration that might conduce to a more 
