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cannot be an{wered better, than by exhibiting the 
contraft between thofe who have water meadows, 
and thofe who have none, in the fame diftric. 
Every farmer who keeps a flock of fheep, and 
particularly a breeding flock, in fo cold and late- 
fpringing a diftrict as South-Wilts, knows and feels 
the confequences of the month of April. “ That 
month e/ween bay and grafs, in which he who has 
not water meadow for his ewes and lambs, fre- 
quently has nothing!” The ewes will bring a very 
good lamb with hay only; perhaps a few turnips 
are preferved for the lambs, which, in a very fa- 
vourable feafon, may laft them through March; 
but if they are then obliged to goto hay again, the 
ewes fhrink their milk, the lambs ‘ pitch and get 
ftunted,” and the beft fummer food will not reco- 
ver them. To prevent this, recourfe is had to 
feeding the grafs of thofe dry meadows that are in- 
tended for hay, the young clovers, and frequently 
the young wheat; in fact, every thing that is green. 
—And who will pretend to eftimate, what is the 
lofs that a farmer fuffers by this expedient? 
Management of water meadows.—The manage- 
ment of water meadows (as nearly as it can be de- 
fcribed in an account neceffarily fo concife as this) 
is in the following way: 
As foon as the after-grafs is eaten off as bare as 
can be, the manager of the mead (provincially 
f* the drowner’’) begins cleaning out the main drain, 
then 
