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I did not water either of the fpots any more that 

 fcafon; but the next fummer, I found the efFefts of 

 this watering to an inch in the faid meadow ; the 

 grafs being much thicker and higher than on any 

 other part of the field. I confidered this as proof 

 pofitive, and determined in future to increafe the 

 quantity of my pond-water. For this purpofe I 

 emptied the pond, enlarged it, and lined the bot- 

 tom and fides with clay eight inches thick, to pre- 

 vent the water from foaking into the earth. I 

 then laid covered drains into it from my flables, 

 ox-flalls, kitchen, dairy, and neceflary, (the latter I 

 regularly emptied once a year into it) and threw in 

 all the offal made in the houfe, cabbage-leaves, 

 rotten fruit, and the like 5 by thefe means the 

 water foon grew very putrid, and I had it in great 

 plenty. In my garden I now ufed no other ma- 

 nure, and yet found the produce much fuperior to 

 my neighbours, who dunged ground equally good 

 freely. Having a common water-cart made with 

 a trough behind full of holes, I then watered my 

 pafi:ure and meadow land with the greateft fuccefs. 

 Twenty carts of this water on an acre in the be- 

 ginning of May, and in July, would render my crops 

 of grafs and rovven* far better than any manure I 

 ^ould lay on without it. After this fuccefs, I tried 



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