1802.](407: J) ON THE DRAINAGE OF LAND.

To the Editor of the Commercial and Agricultural Magazine. ; your Magazine for the Month of March, and likewiſe in your

laſt number, I obſerve a ſubje(, of no ſmall conſequence to the cauſe of huſbandry, treated in a manner in which I ſhould wiſh to lee every ſubjei both in Agriculture and Commerce handled. I mean in a way di&ated by experience and praétice. Give every encouragement, Mr. Editor, to menof this complexion, and your publication will be fure to continue in high requeſt. In ventur- ing to animadvert upon what either of them have written, I do not preſume to ſet my opimon in oppoſition to that of either of them; I wiſh only to draw out ſomething more from cheir ſtore- houſes for your advantage, and for the benefit of the public. IT agree with them both, moſt cordially, in pronouncing the drain- age of land to be a very important national concern.- TL ſhouldbe happy to ſee an eſſay upon this branch of huſbandry in every number of your Magazine, for years to come, provided that-in each only one ray of freſh light was thrown upon the ſubje&. Tt 1s lamentable to ſee what. quantities of excellent manure are an- nualiy waſted upon wet and ſpewy land. I do not heſitate to aſlert that the produce of this Ifland would ſoon be at lea doubled,

the ſones at the quarry, and for laying the drains; and I have

carted the ſtones, filled up the drains, and finiſhed them.” Drains

landlord is in equity bound to take upon himſelf a conſiderable portion of che expence of draining land. 1 do not venture to

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it is well deſerving of the attention of the public,

Y our correſpondent offers an objection to draining with chalk, on account of* rhe difficulty“ of carting chalk upon thoſe Which ſand mog in need“ of drainin EE This 0

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obje(ion applics equally to ſoñe draining, and to chalk draining, TT. P, makes an