. Communications on drainage and other agricultural subjects. Drainage; Agriculture; Agriculture. .COMMUmCATIOSS ON. AND OTHER CONNECTED AGRICULTURAL SUBJECTS, FROM THE TRANSACTIONS OF THE VIRGINIA STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY, FOR 1857. THE DRAINAGE OF MARLBOURNE FARM. BY EDMUND 'RUFFIN D l(UF The low-grounds of Marlbourne farm, on the Pamunkey River, have remarkable and important conditions in regard to the supply of injurious water, and its being diverted by proper drainage. These conditions, when first noticed by me, and also far years afterwards, while they demanded my investigation, and mo
. Communications on drainage and other agricultural subjects. Drainage; Agriculture; Agriculture. .COMMUmCATIOSS ON. AND OTHER CONNECTED AGRICULTURAL SUBJECTS, FROM THE TRANSACTIONS OF THE VIRGINIA STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY, FOR 1857. THE DRAINAGE OF MARLBOURNE FARM. BY EDMUND 'RUFFIN D l(UF The low-grounds of Marlbourne farm, on the Pamunkey River, have remarkable and important conditions in regard to the supply of injurious water, and its being diverted by proper drainage. These conditions, when first noticed by me, and also far years afterwards, while they demanded my investigation, and more and more directed my draining labors, were also supposed to be peculiar features of this farm, or of its neighborhood, as nonesuch had been then observed elsewhere. But it is more probable that the like remarkable cha- racters of land and water, and the like require- ments and difficulties of drainage, belong also to many other and remote localities of bottom-lands bordering on this and other rivers. Further—from recent and extended personal observations, made long after the writing of this report was begun, I have learned that the like remarkable and impor- tant character of land, and conditions of injuri- ous water, extend generally throughout the low and level lands of south-eastern Virginia, and the much broader surfaces of similar lands in North and South Carolina. And I now infer, that through- out all this great region, the natural conditions of the supply of excessive and injurious water, and the great and general difficulty of draining, are similar to those which I have had to contend with—and which conditions have scarcely any v/here been understood, or the difficulties properly treated in practical operations. Yel, these very conditions which, while neglected or unknown, have heretofore operated as insuperable difficulties to the effective drainage of such lands, when un- derstood, and made to direct the plan and labors of draining, will be the best means for
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