. An encyclopædia of agriculture : comprising the theory and practice of the valuation, transfer, laying out, improvement, and management of landed property, and of the cultivation and economy of the animal and vegetable productions of agriculture. »d 3 «ion of which must W related by the extent of the bog They «rougo «.peat, or moist spongv upper soil, to the surface of the clay, or other reten £»e stratirm . .atua^, n c11ms then be perforated or bored through in order to let the water ^^^SXeuS»Sby which it maybe absorbed and taken up. The same effect^ighrbe produ^ ^^ , o
. An encyclopædia of agriculture : comprising the theory and practice of the valuation, transfer, laying out, improvement, and management of landed property, and of the cultivation and economy of the animal and vegetable productions of agriculture. »d 3 «ion of which must W related by the extent of the bog They «rougo «.peat, or moist spongv upper soil, to the surface of the clay, or other reten £»e stratirm . .atua^, n c11ms then be perforated or bored through in order to let the water ^^^SXeuS»Sby which it maybe absorbed and taken up. The same effect^ighrbe produ^ ^^ , or pit, in the middle or lowest part of the *^#OTfflta5 the drains woulding the other drains with it, as by such amethod ihe trouble and 01 0 6 698 PRACTICE OF AGRICULTURE. III. be saved. In these cases, when drains are made, they should always be cut as narrow as it is possible to make them, and, alter the holes have been formed 6-jy •;•*;. 6:iO I in them by boring, filled up with loose stones to withinabout a loot and a half of the surface, which spacemay be made up by a portion of the earth that hadbeen taken out, putting in turf with the green sideto the stones before the earth is thrown in By thismeans the water and prejudicial moisture of the peat,or upper soil, may be taken away by the drains, andpass off through the holes that have been formed intheir bottoms. But where pits are employed, theseshould only be filled with small stones to the level ofthe bottom of the drain, the filling being performedas soon as possible after they are formed. (Ander-sons Treatite on Draining, p. 8s.) Where there is achalky stratum below, alter taking it out, the flintscontained in it may be made use of in this way withmuch advantage ; and where the drains can be carriedinto quarries, where the stone is much fissured no-thing more will be necessary. Where land of thissort is afterwards to be ploughed, great attentionshould be given t
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