THE

AGRICULTURAL MAGAZINE.

No, LVIIL] MAY, 1804. Vor. X.]

METHOD OF FLOATING, BY WHICH ELEVATED LANDS MAY BE SUBJECTED TO IRRIGATION.

[WITH A PLATE ANNEXED.] Tothe Editor of the Agricultural Magazine.

mrn SIR, HE method of floating hereunder explained, 1s 80 Simple and beneficial, that I bought it would be acceptable to you as a continuation ofthe Subject, introductory of your last

number.; This plate represents a meadow regular in its Surface with. ihe current of the river, but too high to be floated from the part of the Stream immediately oppozite to it. In order there tore, to procure a fall, the water is taken out at a more elevated part of the Stream by a conductor, as at C, into the feeder, which is cut along the highest parts of the meadow, and has a flood batch in the mouth of it to admit or exclude the water at pleasure. This conductor we will Suppose, for lustration, has only four inches descent in the whole length, but the y Stream in the Same distance has ten inches fall, 30 that Six inches of power are gained by means of the conductor, which js a fall abundantly Sufficient to float a meadow. By this mode of gaining descent, thousands of acres may be floated which

might be thought impossible to be done.

Fig. 1 and 2 represent a transverse Section of two ridges, with their Sides or beds an inclined plane. The floating gutters, or troughs,(marked F G) are drawn with double lines; and the st0ps in theze and the feeder are denoted with small circles and the letter S. The drain cuts are described with Single lines.

Exeter, May 5, 1804. Yours,&c. DY: zäh KAU Bh TIR I

ON THE RUTA BAGA AND MANGOLD WURZEL. To the Editor of the Agricultural Magazine. Si1R, BEG leave to state-a fact, which probably Some of your readers may congider to'be interesting. In the Spring, 1803, a Swedish Nobleman, Le Chevalier d? Edelerantz, a most intelligent agriculturist, made me a pre-

ent of Some, Seed of the Kuta Baga, or Swedish Turnp, a

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