304 AN AMERICAN FARMER IN ENGLAND. 



drought of your ground, let down your sluice into your trench-royal, that 

 thereby you may command so much water to serve your turn as you desire. 

 Suffer it to descend where you mean first to mow, and you shall find this 

 manner of drowning in the morning before you mow so profitable and good, 

 that commonly you gain ten or twelve days' advantage in growing. For 

 drowning before mowing, a day, or even two or three, so supplies the 

 ground, that it doth most sweetly release the root of every particular 

 grasse, although the sun be never so extream hot. This practice will often 

 make a good second mowing, and in walking over grounds, I will tread as 

 on velvet, or a Turkey carpet." 



