I grounds are as necefiary as to know how 

 to increafe the produce of corns. There is no 

 method in improving pafture grounds would 

 anfwer better than watering, where the water 

 can be made to ftand dead upon it, in autumn 

 and fpring, after the cattle are taken off; and 

 even where that cannot be obtained, collect- 

 ing the water in the winter time, that comes 

 from the lands that are ploughed, and mak- 

 ing that water run upon the field that is ei- 

 ther in pafture, or hay, would enrich it very 

 much ; as the rain water that comes from a 

 field that is in tillage, when full of lime and 

 dung, is richer than the water that comes 

 from a fpring. 



Care mould be taken, not to let the water 

 run too long in one part of the field ; but al- 

 tering it, till it go over the whole, and re- 

 turning the fame way back, fliifting it from 

 place to place : So that, in almoft every fitu- 

 ation, grafs grounds can be enriched very 

 much by waters laid on, either from rivers, 

 rivulets, or fprings, or rain water, perhaps 

 condudled a confiderable diftance from plow- 

 ed fields. 



Suppofe rain water from plowed fields was 



condudled 



