text:  In reply to the question is your land drained? we have so often received the answer--"Oh sir my land is dry it does not require draining"--that we request the serious attention of such of our readers as are interested in the improvement of land to the following passage:-- "Land however though it does not contain such a superabundance of water as to obstruct arable culture may nevertheless by its inherent wetness prevent or retard the luxuriant growth of useful plants as much as decidedly wet land