D&AINING. 1^1 
succeeds, The drain is formed of brick made for the 
purpose, called gutter brick. The brick, the pebbles, 
and the faggots, which form the drains, at the bottom 
of the trenches in which they are used, are covered in 
the usual manner with earth. Some of the old under 
ground drains are also made with brick others with 
small pebble stones, where they are in plenty ; and 
some, with small faggots of brushwood. 
Draining is not much practised in common fields, 
but more attended to in enclosures; in day soils turf 
is used i in others, wood or stones, which is most con¬ 
venient, the latter is most lasting.— Mr. O/dacre. 
Mr. Darke observes, of the lands in Bredon, in 
common fields, little or no attention is paid to drains. 
The Severn is our main drain ; the Avon, the first 
conductor to it; our brooks and ditches leading to the 
Avon, change their owners as the lands vary: con¬ 
sequently, the cleansing is not regularly attended to. 
Much draining has been done in enclosed fields; some 
in the open fields. We prefer the stone-drain ; what 
W*as done formerly with wood, is entirely worn out, 
and in gravelly soil, it goes very soon indeed. 
The most skilful drainer I know in Worcestershire, 
is the present Earl of Coventry: his part of the county 
was a morass not half a century back, and is, at 
this present time (though formerly a moorish soil) 
perfectly dry, sound for sheep, and other cattle. He 
has but few under drains. His principal drains are 
open, formed thus: 
turfed 
