1SG u^der draining in Georgia.—cream hill school.—rural architecture. 
life adds, that it beats all the things to turn up and 
over the sod, that he ever took hold of.” 
UNDER DRAINING AND SUBSOILING IN 
GEORGIA. 
1 have under drained 60 acres, that is, sunk a drain 
at every hundred feet, 3 feet deep, filling the first 18 
inches with bushes, and the remainder with the soil 
to the surface. At the commencement of this pro¬ 
cess we made our drains two feet wide, and three 
feet deep; and to finish the whole, cost three days’ 
labor upon each hundred and five feet. In the course 
of my operation, and by procuring very narrow hoes, 
4 inches wide, and making the first foot of the drain 
a foot wide, and the 2 lower feet 6 to 4 inches, we 
accomplished 315 feet with two days’ labor. If I 
live, I propose the next year to divide that space by 
another drain ; during the third year, the intermediate 
space is again to be divided. Thus with 2 days’ 
labor the first year, and 2 the second year, and 4 the 
third year—8 days in all to three-quarters of an acre 
—or in round numbers 10 days per acre, our lands 
will be underdrained at every 25 feet. Sir John 
Sinclair says, drains filled with bushes, covered with 
sods, and then filled up with earth, stand in Scotland 
from 15 to 25 years. In Scotland these underdrains 
of wood may be costly; but in our woody country 
no material is so cheap and so abundant; and to 
adapt your end to your means is the first law of phi¬ 
losophy, in every country, and upon every subject. 
I have subsoiled 170 acres of land; that is, between 
our ridges in the hollows, which I suppose to be 
about four inches below the general level, I run the 
Eagle plow right and left, turning up the furrow 6 
inches deeper, in the hollow produced by these two 
furrows. I then run the subsoil plow I suppose 
about 8 inches deeper, thus reaching 4, 6, and 8 inches 
—in the whole, 18 inches below the general surface, 
and, as I hope, mingling the mineral substances that 
were below, or have been carried there by the opera¬ 
tion of culture and heavy floodings, with the vegeta¬ 
ble matter of the surface soil. Again, the next year 
I propose to repeat the same operation, on the inter¬ 
mediate spaces, and thus mingle the soils 18 inches 
deep, generally over the field. The lands will then 
be left for 3 years, and with alternate culture and 
such manuring as we may give, I hope our lands, and 
consequently our crops may improve. The result of 
these operations will be communicated to you as soon 
as they distinctly make themselves known. 
Thomas Spalding. 
Sapelo Island , April 24,1845. 
Packing Provisions for the English Market. 
—Mr. Rotch, writing us from London, says: 
The early attention you asked of your readers to 
the English mode ol putting up provisions, begins 
already to manifest itself in the very improved man¬ 
ner in which they are now brought to this market, 
and the improved prices they command It is no 
small encouragement to know that Herkimer and 
some other of our dairy counties are successfully com¬ 
peting with Cheshire and Gloucestershire in the Lon¬ 
don market, in the very article of cheese, for which 
the latter have been so long famous! 
Bacon for the London market must not be envel¬ 
oped, as for the country consumption, with a thick 
coat of fat; on the contrary, it should have but little 
fat, and its muscle or lean parts must be weii marbled 
with it. However, as yet, bacon is not cured to any 
extent in the northern States. Tongues have been 
sent here, but have been so badly trimmed, so bloody, 
and so slovenly put up, that they did not sell for 
more than half price. Properly put up, and they 
would have sold from 4s. to 4s. 6d. apiece ; for here 
they are sold at 4s. 6d. to 5s. 6d., when cured as 
they should be. 
CREAM HILL SCHOOL. 
This school has recently been commenced at West 
Cornwall, Conn., with flattering prospects. Mr. 
T. S. Gold, one of the principals, called upon us the 
past month, with the following explanation in regard 
to it. 
The plan of this institution is to receive a select 
and limited number of pupils, under the superintend¬ 
ence of well qualified teachers, to be fitted for col¬ 
lege, or any of the useful pursuits of life. This 
school embraces two important departments of in¬ 
struction. First, Thorough attention to the various 
elementary classical and scientific branches taught at 
the best academic institutions. Second, Both scien¬ 
tific and practical instruction in agriculture and hor¬ 
ticulture, embracing the most approved method of 
tillage, rearing of stock, cultivation of trees, the lay¬ 
ing out of grounds, ornamental gardening, chemical 
analysis of soils, composts, &c. A portion of each 
day will be allotted to these objects, so that the pupil 
may become a scientific and practical farmer. 
The farm containing two hundred acres, with con¬ 
venient buildings, situated on Cream Hill, surrounded 
by a picturesque country scenery, furnishes a locatioi 
unrivalled for healthfulness, and freedom from an) 
immoral tendencies, and peculiarly fitted for such an 
institution. The Housatonic railroad affords daily 
access to New York. The students will become 
members of the family of the instructors. A parental 
supervision will at all times be exercised over each 
individual. All will be treated with kindness, and 
every attention rendered, with affectionate regard to 
health, deportment, and morals. The institution will 
be conducted by Samuel W. Gold, Theodore S. 
Gold, and Thomas R. Dutton. 
Rural Architecture. —There is great want of 
architectural taste and economy of arrangement, in 
every part of the country. Those who can only 
build at the least possible expense have no need to 
consult appearances; but there are those who build 
with reference both to economy and taste, and for the 
benefit of such I take the liberty to ask you, or some 
of your able contributors, for a plan of a respectable 
dwelling, with suitable out-houses and garden for an 
ordinary sized family, near a thriving village—such 
as may not cost altogether over $2,000 or $2,500. It 
is to be situated on a slight elevation, with five acres 
of land attached. There are many bouses of this 
description, built every year in such situations, which 
are taken in a great measure as models, as far as is 
consistent, for farm-houses in the country around, 
and thus we see a kind of sameness in buildings 
through the country, particularly at the west. A 
plan or description of such buildings as I have at¬ 
tempted to describe, in your next number, would 
oblige A Recent Subscriber. 
Ohio, April 5, 1845. 
