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If your water has run a long courfe above 

 ground, the fouled is the beft$ but that coming 

 immediately from chalk or lime rocks is warmelr, 

 and much to be preferred to foul muddy water 

 in general. I muft however obferve, that water 

 in a (late of putrefaction is poifon to vegetables, 

 and therefore ought never to be ufed for this 



purpofe. 



S. B. 



Water when carried over meadow-lands a fter 

 heavy rains, depofits a fertilizing fediment, which 

 enriches the foil, and turns the mould blackifh. 

 It alfo promotes the fpeedy putrefaction of every 

 vegetable and animal fubftance found in the earth, 

 and thereby contributes to the melioration of the 

 foil under the fward or turf. 



Care fhould however be taken, that the quan- 

 tity of water brought on the land be only enough 

 to give vigour to the plants, without overchar- 

 ging their veffels. Never water your lands in very 

 hot weather; for when the veffels of the plants 

 are filled, by the heat caufing it to afcend fud- 

 denly a fudden cold morning will greatly injure 



the herbage. 



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