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then the main carriage, and then proceeds to 
“right up the works,” that is, to make good all 
the water carriages that the cattle have trodden 
down, and openall the drains they may have trod- 
den in, fo as to have one tier or pitch of work ready 
for “ drowning,” and which is then put under 
water (if water be plenty enough) during the time 
the drowner is righting up the next pitch. In the 
flowing meadows this work is, or ought to be, done 
early enough in the autumn, to have the whole 
mead ready to catch, if poflible, “ she firft floods after 
“ Michaelmas,” the water being then “ thick and 
good,” being the fj? wafhing of the arable land 
on the fides of the chalk hills, as well as of the dirt 
from the roads, &c. 
The length of this autumn watering cannot al- 
ways be determined, as it depends on fituations and 
circumftances; but if water can be commanded in 
plenty, the rule is to give ita “ thorough good 
foaking” at firft, perhaps a fortnight or three 
weeks, with a dry interval of a day or two, and 
fometimes two fortrights, with a dry interval of a 
week, and then the works are made as dry as poffi- 
ble, to encourage the growth of the grafs. This 
firft foaking is to make the land fink and pitch clofe 
together; a circumftance of great confequence, not 
— only to the quantity but to the quality of the grafs, 
and particularly to encourage the fhooting of the 
new roots which the grafs is continually forming, 
to fupport the forced growth above. 
