periments a few years ago, which we copied into with eternal snows, afford a vast supply of water; the Maine Farmer. These were valuable. Un-preserved most conveniently in those immense retil within a few years it has been generally be-servoirs, the Lago Moggiore, Lugano, Como, Iseo, lieved that Indian corn was the only legitimate Guarda, whose waters are the origin of the greatfood for swine, and although they were fed with er part of the irrigations of Lombardy. But in the potatoes and the wash from the kitchen, yet In-Appenines there are no such reservoirs, nor any dian corn, after all, was the only sure substance extent of snow similar to that of the Alps. Thus wherewithal to produce pork. the space watered to the north of the Po, is probably ten times more considerable than that to the south of the same river. Now we are willing to ackowledge the great excellence of this article in feeding and fattening hogs, and almost every other animal-man not excepted; but oftentimes the expense of it is so great as to render it very unprofitable as an article for swine diet. The experiments and researches of Mr. Colman, if we mistake not, established it as a fact that it should not cost more than four shillings (67 cents) per bushel, in order to render it pro-I fitable for making pork when round hogs sold at 6 cents per pound. The soil of Lombardy is, wherever I viewed it, either sand, gravel, or loam. I met with none, or at least, with very little clay (speaking always as a farmer, and not as a naturalist,) and no chalk. * * If there be one circumstance which gives a superiority to Lombardy, over all the other countries have seen, it is this, [its irrigation] and therefore it merits the most particular detail. PIEDMONT-Nice.-Such is the consequence "In situations where flour mills abound, the ar- of water here, that a garden of 4 sestaradi, (a ticle called pollards, a portion of the ground wheat square of 12 trebucchi, i. e. 144 is a sestarada, and not fine enough to pack in barrels as flour, is of 400 trebucchi a giornata, which is to the English tentimes used as a food for fattening hogs. Ac-acre as 0.7440 is to 0,7929,) with a small house, cording to Young, a Mr. Jebb, a miller of Ireland, lets at 20 louis d'or per annum, or about £15 an instituted some experiments to ascertain its value for this purpose. According to him, a barrel which would weigh 84 lbs. paid in feeding and breeding hogs, 18 cents per hundred weight--that is, when pork is worth $4,44 per cwt., he could make 18 cts. per bushel, weighing 21 lbs. by feeding it out to hogs. acre. Coni.-For the last 10 miles from Nice to Coni, the country improves continually. The soil, near the mountains, is stony, but is a good sandy loam lower in the vale. It is perfectly level, and watered with the utmost attention, in a manner I had not noticed before; not, as in Spain, in beds, but the Mr. A. B. Allen, of Buffalo, N. Y., who is do- field is ploughed flat, sown with wheat, the clods ing great good in his experiments in breeding and broken with hoes and bush-harrowed, and then improving swine, and who has produced some great deep trenches struck with the plough, for excellent animals by his judicious crosses, informs letting in the water; these are 8 to 12 yards asunus that he kept his full grown swine last winter, der. They are now (September,) watering clover in the best of order almost exclusively on raw eight inches high, by letting the water into these potatoes, at a cost, including time of attention, of trenches, and conducting it in a singular manner. only three cents per day per head; and he gives it A man walking backwards, draws, by a line, a as his opinion, that had he possessed an appara-bunch of straw and weeds, just large enough to tus for steaming their food instead of giving it raw, stop the water in the trench, and force it to overhe would have saved from 25 to 30 per cent on flow on each side. This is an expensive and opethe above trifling cost. He also remarks, and we rose method, and inferior to the Spanish. The think with great propriety-that if this can be done crops now on the ground are maiz; good, but not in New York, Maine, with the best soil and cli-extraordinary: millet, and a little hemp; the male mate in the world for the production of potatoes, can do it with much more advantage. IRRIGATION OF LOMBARDY. From Arthur Young's Notes on the Agriculture of Lombardy. Lombardy is one of the richest plains in the world; for fertility of soil, united with the use that is made of it by watering, it much exceeds every other in Europe; but for mere natural fertility, Í take the plain which extends from Holland to Orleans to consist of a richer soil, and it is also of a greater extent. From the foot of the Alps, near Suza, to the mouths of the Po, are about two hundred and fifty miles; and the breadth of this noble plain varies from fifty to one hundred, containing, probably, about fifteen thousand square miles. The Po bends its stately course through the whole extent, its branches ramifying, in innumerable streams, from the Alps on one side, and from the Appenines on the other; the prodigious extent of the former range, covered VOL. VII-24 plants picked. A great deal of clover, but not much that is clean. But meadow abounds, which is the glory of Piedmont; and the conducting of the water, in multiplying conduits, seems well understood, and practised in great perfection. Coni to Chentale.-In the watered meadows, much chicorium intybus and plantago lanceolata. Watered meadows are cut thrice commonly; but in some seasons, four times. Racconis.-The watered meadows are now mowing for a third time; the predominant plants: the chirorium intybus, plantago lanceolata, acchillea millefolium, and trifolium pratense. To Turin.-From Coni to Turin, something more than half the country appears to be watered; possibly two-thirds: and wherever the water is carried, it is apparently with great skill. It is, however, rather singular that more trenches are not cut for taking the water off the land; the attention is chiefly paid to bringing it on ; from which we may conclude, either that the heat of the climate renders such drains less necessary than in England, or that water is too valuable, from every one understanding its use, to be brought on in the least superfluous quantity. The contrivance, towards Turin, for carrying the aqueducts of irrigation across the roads, are beautifully executed: for convenience of distribution, the water-course is raised three or four feet, or more, above the general level: these aqueducts are brought to the side of the road, and seemingly finish in a wall, but really sink in a syphon of masonry under the road, and rise on the other side, behind another similar wall. Seeing these buttresses of masonry, without perceiving, at first any water, I wondered for a moment, to what use they could be assigned; but when I mounted the foot-way, this beautiful contrivance was at once apparent. These are noble exertions. when bought, at the pleasure of those who buy it, where they think fit; they cannot, however, eut across any man's ground, without paying him for the land and the damage; but the law does this by regulations known to every one, and no individual is allowed a negative upon a measure which is for the general good. The purchasers of water from the king, are usually considerable land owners, or communities that have lands wanting water; and it is of no consequence at what distance these lands may be from the river, whence the water is taken, as they have a right to conduct it where they choose, provided they do not cut through a garden or pleasure ground. Nor can they carry the water under that of others, whose Turin.-The irrigation in all this vicinity, is ex- canals are already made, as they might in that tensive, and carried to great perfection. Water case deprive them of a part of their water; they is measured with as much accuracy as wine. An are obliged to throw aqueducts over such canals. hour per week is sold, and the fee simple of the The benefit of water is so great and well underwater is attended to, with the same solicitude as stood, that nobody ever thinks of making objecthat of the land. Rich meadows, without water, tions; and in case their lands are not already wasell for 1000 liv. and 1100 liv. a giornata; and tered, it is no small advantage to have a new caarable, worth 500 liv. without water, is, in many nal brought through them, as they have the opinstances, worth 2000 liv. with it. Such a mea-portunity of buying water of the proprietors. It dow as will sell for 1100 liv. or 1200 liv. per gior-is sold per hour per week, and even half an hour, nata, will yield the first mowing, 115 rubbii of hay, and down to a quarter. The common price of an worth 9s. to 10s. the rubbio; the second, 90 rub-hour per week, forever, is 1500 liv. At Gruliasbii, at 7s. to 8s.; and the third, 80 rubbii, at 6s. to cho, four miles from Turin, there are many Per78.; the fourth growth is sold, to be eaten by sheep, sian wheels that lift up the water by buckets; at 5 livres. This produce amounts to 120 livres, the wheels are double, with washers between for or 61. English, per giornata, which is under an the stream turning them; the buckets or boxes on acre. The interest of 1100 livres, being at 40 liv. one out side only; they raise the water 8 or 10 or 50 liv. there remans a sufficient profit, after all feet, and, about 24 short of the full diameter of the expenses are paid. During the winter, as the wheel, and I could not perceive that they lose a meadows are commonly fed with sheep, they do drop; none falls, except what adheres to the wheel not water at all. Some experienced cultivators itself. To save the expense of multiplying sluices, avoid watering in the spring, till the frosts are for the occasional stoppage of water, in carrier over, which happen here as late as the 10th, and trenches to force it over the land, they have a even the 15th of May, as strong fresh vegetation moveble board that fits the trench, which is placed is, in such cases, entirely cut off; but, in general, occasionally where wanted, and answers the purno attention is paid to this circumstance; and wa-pose well. They have none of the ramifications tering goes on at all times, except when sheep are on the ground. Those who have water enough, let it on to their land once a week, during the whole summer; but if the weather is wet, once a fortnight; and a day or two before cutting, if the water is perfectly clear. In regard to the quality of water, they make no other distinction than that from mountains being cold; and that of the Dora, near Turin, being charged with so much sand as to be bad. They attend to the cutting of weeds in the canals, that they may rot; and some good managers harrow the bottoms in the spring, to foul the water, which then acts more powerfully as a manure. Another practice, which tends also to prove what excellent farmers they are in all that respects meadow-grounds, is that of paring and burning, which they perform on pieces that have a bad herbage, or want of improvement; do not sow them with corn, or any other plant, exeept hay-seeds, in order to renew the grass, with no other interruption. It is impossible to praise such practices too much. They call this husbandry motara. of carrier trenches common among us; and not so many drains for taking the water off, as with us; and, on the whole, do not shew any thing like our attention in the use of the water, though twenty, or rather an hundred times more in bringing it from rivers, and distributing it about the country; and I could not but observe, that their meadows have much bad herbage, and many places damaged by the water resting too long; this is more the case here than it seemed to be from Coni to Racconis, where the meadows carried a better countenance. Turin to Chivasco.-Not one-third of this country is watered. At Chivasco but little also. After crossing the Dora Belta, there are soon two considerable canals of irrigation; one made two years ago only, which is as great a work as a navigation in England. but Ciglione.-Little land watered in this country; but I observed here some meadows, with off channels, from the principal ones, for conducting the water, which I did not notice before; but very few drains. The new canal crosses a gravelly waste, but none of it watered. Trouchan.--A very rich country much watered; and many mulberries. The power of effecting the great works in irrigation, which are visible over this whole country, depends very much on the law, which supposes St. Germano.-Mowing the third crop of grass, the right and property of all rivers to be vested in and very poor; not more than 15 cwt. an acre, and the king; consequently all canals taken from them yet watered. The glory of Piedmont is from Coare bought of him; and this ensures another re-ni to Turin. Those who pass Mont Cenis to Turin, gulation, which is the power of carrying the water, and Turin to Milan, see, on comparison, nothing. Vercelli.-The new canal, now making, for tak- | terially differ from the present modes; because, in ing water from the Dora Baltia, and conducting it the papers of the archives of the abbey of that peto the rice grounds of Vercelli, is done by the king, riod, mention is made of chiuse, incastri, hochilli, and will cost three millions; the water is sold to soratio, and other works, to distribute the water, communities. The other I crossed near the Dora, and regulate the irrigation. In 1164, the Empeat the same time, was made long ago, and belongs ror Frederick gave various rights, in certain rivers, to the Marquis de Bourg. to the people of Pavia, for the purposes of irrigaMILANESE.-Buffalora.-After crossing the tion. In 1177, the people of Milan enlarged and Tesino, in several branches, and entering the Mi- continued the Navillio Grande, from Abbiate lanese, we find a great system of watering mea-Grasso to Milan, being 14 miles; it was brought dows to Buffalora, where that magnificent canal, from the Tesino, near the Lago Maggiore, to Abthe Navil io Grande is 20 yards broad, and though biate Grasso, 20 miles, by the people of Pavia, navigable, was originally made for irrigation alone. long before the date of any records now known to St. Pietro Olmo.-Hence, for some distance, remain.§ In 1271, it was made navigable. It is there is no watering; but then there is something thirty-two Italian miles long, and twenty-five bracin our Berkshire method; the lands are arched up, chi wide, or forty-nine English feet.|| and just in the centre, on their crown, are the carrier trenches for conducting the water, and on each side a row of low sallows; some of these lands are two rods broad, and two feet higher in the ridge than in the furrow; the land firm and the herbage good: wherever the meadows seem good, there is abundance of chicorium intybus, plantago lanceolata, and trifolium pratense. The second great work, was the canal called Muzza, which takes the waters of the Adda, at Cassano, and carries them to Marignano, there dividing and watering much of the Lodizan. It was executed in 1220, and done in so admirable a style, that Padre Frisi, in the preface to Modo di regolare i fiumi, &c. says,—"il meccanismo d'irrigar le campagne é stato ridotto all'ultimo grado di maestria e di persezione nel canale di Muzza.' "** And Padre Antonio Lecchi, another great engineer and mathematician, remarks,-"De'nostri trè celebri canali di Muzza, e de'due navigli qual altra memoria ci rimane ora, se non se quella del tempo della loro costruzione, e d'altre poche notizie, niente concernenti al maraviglioso artifizio della loro condotta."†† Milan.-As the irrigation of Milanese is perhaps the greatest exertion of the kind that ever was in the world, and certainly the first that was undertaken in Europe, after the decline of the Roman empire, it merits every attention that a farming traveller can give; for it will be found, by very briefly recurring to records, which have been searched, that great exertions (perhaps as great as ever known) were made in this country, at a In 1305, the canal of Treviglio was made, which period when all the north of Europe was in a state takes the water from the Brembo, and carries it, of barbarism. In the year 1037, mention is made for several miles, about twenty-five feet wide, and of the canal Vecchiabbia. In 1067, watered mea-about three deep; it irrigates the territory of Tridows were common, called prato roco by Landol-viglio and the Ghiara d'Adda. And, within four fo.* In 1077, there are notes of many streams, or five miles, there are five canals, taken from the used. In 1138, the monks of Chiarevalle bought Adda and Brembo, all of great antiquity. In 1460, of Giovanni Villano some commons, woods, and the canal de Martesano was begun, under Duke meadows for 81 liv. under the contract, (a parch- Francis Sforza I.; it was twenty-four miles long, ment yet remaining,) "ut monasterium possit ex and eighteen braccia (thirty-five English feet,) Vectabia trahere lectum ubi ipsum monasterium vol-wide; since lengthened seven or eight miles more. uerit et si fuerit opus liceat facere eidem monasterio It takes the waters of the Adda, a little before fossata super terram ipsius Johannis ab una parte Trezzo, by means of a powerful wear, (chiuse) via et ab alia****&c. possit firmare et habere clu-founded upon the living rock; it is then supported sam in prato ipsius Johannis, &c." There is a similar contract of the following year, and various others, until the beginning of the 13th century; from which, and others, it appears, that the Vecchiabbia was the entire property of the monastery, and confirmed in 1276 by the diploma of the Emperor Frederick II. The merit of these monks appears to have been great, for they gained such a reputation for their skill and industry, that they had many applications for assistance in directing works similar to their own upon uncultivated lands; and the imperial Chancellor Rinaldo, in the time of the Emperor Frederick I. being appointed arch-bishop Chiuse, are sluices; incastri, are water gates, that of Colone, found the possessions of his fee in such are moved perpendicularly; bochilli, openings in the a deplorable state, that he applied for, and found banks to distribute water; sorator, discharges for carthe same assistance, as reported by Cesarior Eis-rying off superfluous water; the same as scaricatori. terbacense. Their greatest exertions were in irrigation, which was so well known, that they sold their superfluous water, transferring the use and property of same by the hour, day, and week. In two centuries they came to be possessed of 60,000 pertiche, mostly watered: there is reason to believe that the practice, in the 13th century, did not ma * Giulini, tom. iv. p. 122, 224, 225. for five miles by a solid wall of stone, forty braccia (eighty feet,) above the bottom of the Adda, and parallel with it. At Gorgonzola, it passes over the torrent Molgora, by a bridge of three stone arches. At Carsenzago, it is crossed by the river Lambro, which enters and quits the canal with all its floods. And, in order to prevent the surplus of water, which this circumstance occasions, from breaking the banks of the canal, or overflowing them, there are nineteen scaricatori in the canal, above, below, and facing the junc + Memorie Storica ed Economica full' Irrigazone de Prati. Don. Ang. Fumagalli Atti di Milano, tom. ii. p. 215. Giulini, tom. vi. p. 330. Nuova Raccolta d'Autoriche trattano de tmoto dell' Acque. Parma. 1768. 4to. Tom. vii. P. Prisi. p. 97. ¶ Verri, Storia di M. t. i. p. 240. tt Ib. Piano, &c. de tre torrenti, p. 141. tion, which are so calculated, that they have not only powers sufficient to take off the waters of that river, but also half of those of the canal itself. These scaricatori are canals which take the water BORROWERS OF THE FARMERS' REGISTER. We have often been told, by subscribers to the Farmers' Register, of the great demand for their numbers, by some persons who found it cheaper thus to borrow, than to pay for the work, and who were willing thus to profit at the expense of those who do pay, and still more at the expense of the publisher. It has, indeed, often been reported to us from neighborhoods which perhaps had furnished but two or three subscribers, that their numbers were so popular, that the owners could not when slui e-gates are opened for that purpose, and convey it, at various distances, to the Lambro again; the fall in its course being considerable enough to free the canal from all superfluity of water. Near Milan, this Navillio receives the torrent Seveso; and, after surrounding the city, unites with the Navillio Grande and the Olona. The sluices which Bellidor supposed to be invented by the Dutch, were used, for the first time, near Padua, in 1481, by two engineers of Viterbo, Dionysius and Peter Domenico, brothers.* Leonardo da Vinci profited inmediately of this great keep them at home, nor prevent their loss or deinvention, for the union of the two canals of Mi-struction in the hands of borrowers; and someJan; and finding between them the difference of times in places where no new name had been adthe levels to be eighteen braccia, he, with six ded to our list for years together, this practice of hasluices, in they ear 1497, under Ludovico il Moro, bitual lending of the numbers by some one of the opened and facilitated the navigation from one to the other. The greatest scaricatorit of the wa-few subscribers has been mentioned as a friendly ters united at Milan, is the canal of Vecchiabbia, service rendered, to promote the circulation of the which, after having served some mills and irriga- work, and as a plea of merit, in asking for duplicate tion, falls into the Lambro near Marignano; and numbers in place of the copies lost or spoiled by if this canal were made straight, and supported by some fluices, the navigation might be continued the borrowers. By such reports, we were even to the Lambro, and thence to the Po and the sea. flattered, and gratified that our publication should Both these canals, the Grande and the Martesano, thus be sought for and read, though by those who are so contrived as to be completely emptied once chose to avoid paying for it. But there is a limit a year, for cleaning and repairing whatever accidents may have happened to any of the works. to every thing; and the limit of our gratification, and tolerance of this wide-spread and growing practice has long since been exceeded. I have entered into this digression upon a very curious subject, little known in English literature, in order to shew how well irrigation was understood, and how admirably it was practised, when the countries on this side of the Aips were barbarous. At the same time, however, that justice is thus done to these great exertions, we must bear in mind, that few districts in Europe are better, or so well situated for irrigation. The lakes of Maggiore and Como, nearly upon the same level, are three hundred feet (one hundred and fifty braccia) higher than Milan,—and that of Lugano two hundred feet higher than those, with a nearly regular declivity to the Po, (To be continued.) Whether many, or even any, of these borrowing readers would become subscribers to and payers for the Farmers' Register, if they could no longer borrow, is more than we can tell ; but even if no more gain is derived than is expected from such sources, still the cessation of the practice of lending will prevent the loss and destruction of thousands of numbers, which are caused by the borrowers from the owners, (or takers without leave of the owners, from the post-offices,) and which losses we have then to supply, and without remuneration. It is not unlikely that we have, in the course of this publication, furnished, and without charge, as many duplicate numbers as would, at subscription price, have cost $1000, to replace those lost or damaged by being borrowed. Yet sundry of these borrowers, within our knowledge, are very wealthy men, and who would be utterly The scaricatori are what I believe we call wears much less an unjust or mean act, for the sake of amazed to be supposed guilty of an illiberal, in England; they are discharges of superfluous waters. Mr. Brindley made them, in the Duke of Bridge-saving the few dollars, the outlay of which would water's canal, circular, and in the centre of the river, make the property their own, and pay what is due to convey the water, as into a well; but in Italy they are cuts or openings in the banks of the canal, at places to the producer, By the published conditions, we that allow a quick conveyance of the water; for in- have always engaged to furnish duplicates for costance, where a canal crosses the bed of a river: their powers are calculated with such a mathematical exact- pies not received by mail, under certain restrictions ness, proportioned to the quantity of water brought into as to time and manner of notification, &c. This the canals, by the rivers joining them, that no floods obligation has not only been readily and willingly ever effect the surface, which is of an equal height. discharged in every case, but we have never adhered to our limits, the proper and seasonable safeguards against too great carelessness of subscri • Moto dell'Acque, vol. v. Parma, 1766, p. 359. Mentioned by Zendrini in the tenth chapter, Sopra l'Acqua Corrente. This is the common supposition in Lombardy, and is thus recorded; but it appears to be an error, by a passage in Giulini, tom. xii. p. 332, where, anno 1420, mention is expressly made of them, machinarum quas conchas appellant, &e. 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We earnestly hope, that our subscribers and friends will see the propriety of these remarks, and will take no offence at our now requiring, what in fact, our conditions and justice and propriety required always. To enforce the long established rule is all that we can do to restrain the depredations and heavy losses caused by the practice of borrowing. But we earnestly beg of all our subscribers who desire the prosperity of this publication, that, for the sake of promoting that end, as well as to check a most shameful abuse and injury of our right of proper without adding to the great losses already sustained, and will with pleasure, and gratuitously, furnish duplicates of all except the deficient Nos. of Vols. 2 to 6 inclusive. Therefore, all old subscribers, who have lost any of the numbers which are surplus, may be supplied with any reasonable number, by writing for them, (post paid) within a few weeks after this notice. 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