436 Cultivation of Graft Land. JFatercd Meadows Floating Gutters, $c 



the fame proportion that it has been introduced ; which is to be done by drains, 

 running parallel to the gutters at even diftances from each, or, a* the irregularity 

 of the meadow requires, being made narrowed at the higheft part, increafing in 

 width as they approach the lowed (which is the reverfe of the preceding works], 

 until they arrive at the main channel that takes off the water that has been col 

 lected. 



On the completion of thefe works, when the water is firft introduced, it may, 

 perhaps, be found that it will not fpread itfelf evenly : this may be regulated by 

 flops acrofs the feeders or floating gutters, at fuch places or diftances as the opera 

 tor may find neceflary : thefe (lops may be made by putting down a ftake at each 

 fide of the water and placing a board before them, thereby railing the water to fuch 

 heights as may be required.* 



In Plate XXI. at Jig. i is explained the method of watering in an oblique direc 

 tion over the fpace between the grand carrier and bed of the river, as defcribed by 

 Mr. Young. In which ff i is the river ; 2 the grand carrier ; 3 the field firfl 

 watered ; 4 the field watered after the firft ; 5 and 6 ditto, in fuccefHon ; 7, 9, the 

 priff d*eatii 8 a fluice to throw the water into the field where firft ufed : 10 final 

 exit of the water. But in this refpecT: the variations may be as many as the form* 

 which a tract of country prefents. 6 may be a good meadow already : in that cafe 

 ? -he water may run to wafte in the ditch n, and fo find its way to the river. * 



Thus,&quot; the divifions 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, form a diagonal fyftem. 



The others, 18, 19, and 2O&amp;gt; another. 



21 and 22, another. 



23 and 24, another. 



35, 26, and 27, another. 



2 8 and 2^9, 3,0 and 31, others. 



32 and 33, by themfelves, the one from the carrier, the other from the 



ditch between it and 28.&quot; 



Fig. 2. Reprefents a watered meadow as defcribed by Mr. Young, where the 

 (lope from A to B is regular, but which is not material to the bufinefs. In this 

 cafe, if &quot;the water from the main carrier, river, or ditch, 31, be let into the 

 delivering trench 32, and the flop 33 be let down, the water will flow over 

 the pane or divifion of the meadow i. The delivering trench 34 then ads as 

 a drain, and conduces the water into the trench 35, the flop 36 being let down; 

 shence, of courfe, it overflows the pane, No. 2 and in like manner, fuccef!ively,N0. 



* DoAvcll on \Vater Meadows, 



