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While the grafs grows freely, a frefh watering is 
not wanted, but as foon as it flags, the watering 
may be repeated for a few days at a time, whenever 
there is an opportunity of getting water, always 
keeping this fundamental rule in view, “ to make 
* the meadows as dry as poffible between every water- 
* and to “ flop the water the moment the ap- 
“ pearance of any fcum on ibe land fhews that it bas 
** already bad water enough.” 
Some meadows that will bear the water ¢bree 
weeks in October, November, or December, will, 
perhaps, not bear it a week in February or March, 
and fometimes fcarcely two days in April or May. 
In the catch meadows watered by fprings, the 
great object is to keep the “ works of them” as 
dry as poflible between the intervals of watering; 
and as fuch fituations are feldom affected by floods, 
and generally have too little water, care is neceflary 
to make the moft of the water by catching and re- 
ufing it as often as poffible; and as the /op works of 
every tier or pitch will be liable to get more of the ~ 
water than thofe lower down, care fhould be taken 
to give it to the latter a /onger time, fo as to make 
them as equal as poffible. 
Cuftom of feeding meadows with foeep.—tt has al- 
ready been faid, that the great object in this dif 
trict of an early crop of water meadow grafs, is to 
enable the farmer to breed early lambs. 
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