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DOMESTIC ECONOMY.

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EXPERIMENTAL FARMING.

«¢ Tt would be a wholesome plan for the Board te com- << mence farming upon their own ideas, particularly in coun-

“< ties where the modes of agriculture seem improper; for ‘© instance, Lancashire, Westmorland, Cumberland, Nor- ae

thumberland,&c.; by which ocular demonstration their “‘ plan might be imitated; for reading or hearing of any <<‘ particular practice will not do for farmers in general.”’-— Thus far Mr. Towns.

DRAINAGE WANTED.

<< Having occasion lately to attend the Sessions at Staf- “‘ ford, and walking with a gentleman of landed property <“upon the meadows adjoining the neighbouring rivers, << T had an opportunity of observing, that the large tract of <¢ flat meadow land between Stafford and St. Thomas’s Mill, ‘< and also between the said mill, and Rickerscote might be ‘‘ very much improved by drainage; a considerable pro-