AGRICULTURAL. a
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When these are not turf, but mere
loose black dirt, and Can be we'll drained
having thena sufficient depth, they make
valuable lands, particularly for the purpose
of raising hemp. The drer this land can be
laid the better. When this earth is carried
out upon upland, it is found good manure;
and upland, particularly gravel and sand,
when cartcd into bog-meadows, is almost
equally beneficial. Prodigious great crops
of herdgrass have been raised on them, when
thus mauured with upland earth: And if this
be so beneficial with grass, why not equally
SO with hemp? 1t would seem that not only
grass and hemp, but many other proluc-
tions such as Indian corn, potatoes, cabbage,
carrots, beets, turnips, parsnips, and per
haps almost every grain but wheat, might
be cultivated to great advantage on we'll
drained boglands where they had been pre-
viously we'll manurrd with upland carths
The Indian corn, however, must be such as
has been long cultivated in a more northerly
climate, and of course, ripens SO soon as to
escape the early frosts which prevail in bog
meadows Hops are cultivated to great ;td-
vantage in these lands.


The method Of draining these lands cf-
fectually is, first to run ditch through the
middle, and draw offas much Of its waters
in this way as possible. Where tho -w.ad-
ow is very wet and nliry, you commence at
the lowest part Of the ground, where you
design its outlet to begin; and thence carry
the ditch into the meadow, sinking it all the
Wayas you proceed, as low as will barely
give the waters a current to run off; and the
deeper this ditch can be sunk the better
Then run ditch proportionately deep al
round the edge of the bog, FOR the purpose
of cutting off all the springs. Then cross
bitches are to be m Qe. in number and Si2e
proportionate to the extent of the bog and o.
the size Of the middle and surrounding ditch
es. Generally spea. ng, the deeper ant
larger your bitches, the fewer c4oss-tlitche
you need have.


1t should be remembered, that bog-land
will settle down very much after draining
for which due allowance ought to be made
in regard to the depth of the bitches. Some
times it may be found, that there will, aftei
draining, be too thin layer of bog dir
above the clay on which it is bottomed, t,
be of much value; and foreseeing this, i
ought in some Uses to deter the proprieto
from going to the expense of draining th
swamp, particularly il it be covered with
thrifty growth of timber.


THE CAMBLET WOOLED SHEEP.


This valuable animal is on w. Shotwel'
farm at Woodbridge, New Jersey, and wa
imported in the Charles and Ellen, Capt
Gerry, which arrived this spring from Smyr