DEEP TRENCHING. 
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THE ADVANTAGES OF DEEP TRENCHING. 
This subject is one, the importance of which can never be 
overrated, and to which I beg to call the attention of all who 
possess a garden. I may confidently premise that if we bestow 
extra labour on our land, under all circumstances and in every 
season, we are well remunerated by an accumulation of fruits. 
During the past summer I have had the opportunity of observing 
the difference in the growth of vegetables on ground dug one 
graft deep, in contrast with another portion on deeply trenched 
ground; it is in a small garden with soil of uniform medium 
texture. The difference has been tried, and the result has proved, 
that though there is a little more trouble in well stirring the 
land, the consequent returns more than compensate for the 
additional outlay, for deep trenching brings more produce than 
what pays for the extra labour bestowed thereon. The subject 
is neither new nor strange, but it is one which deserves to be 
brought prominently forward and presented to the notice of those 
who may not have tried the difference. I will just point out a 
few particulars in illustration of the benefits derivable from deep 
culture, which came under my own observation in the course of the 
experiment mentioned. One part of the ground was planted with 
potatoes in drills on a piece dug the common way; the produce of 
these was a moderate crop. Near them another portion was filled 
with a similar quantity of the same kind, also planted in drills, 
but here the ground was trenched to the depth of two feet, and 
without any other difference in the course of their management, 
the latter proved quite a double crop to the others, and the 
tubers were in a more healthy condition. The first crop of 
French beans was sown on deep trenched ground—these produced 
fruit abundantly of good quality, and the plants grew vigorously, 
and continued fruiting during the greatest part of the summer, 
the plants continuing green and healthy, with some beans left on 
them for seed till the frost came and cut them down; in three 
weeks after the first sowing a successional crop was sown on 
ground dug in the common way; these were altogether inferior 
to the former; there was not near so good a crop—the plants 
were not so strong or healthy, and they shrivelled and died long 
