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Article XXIV. 



On Watering Meadows. 



IT having been a point much difputed, which is 

 the bell water for throwing over meadows, that 

 which comes frefli from the fprings, or that which 

 has run a confiderable courfe above ground, we give 

 the following extracts from divers letters fent to the 

 Society on the fubjecl, without prefumingourfelves 

 to determine on the point in difpute. 



I. 



I apprehend that in moft of the flat parts of 

 this county hot- fprings may not abound; and that 

 in places where there are any, their virtue is not 

 known \ fo that the inhabitants (without choice or 

 consideration, in many inftances) ufe only that wa- 

 ter which has run fome way, and is become foul 

 by floods. But in the neighbourhood of Chard, 

 and doubtlefs in many other places in the county 

 where the benefit of good fpring-water is known, 

 it is preferred, and the farmers flood their meadows 

 with it immediately from the fprings, finding its 

 eficdp fo fertilizing as fufficiently to maintain their 

 meadows in good heart, without any other aid. 



Near Taunton. R. P. A. 



