FEB.] WATERED MEADOWS. 01 



middling land, from a ton and a half to two tons 

 and a half of hay per acre, which, with their clean- 

 ing and ameliorating nature, will he found to far 

 exceed any second crop of corn on the same land, 



WATERED' MEADOWS. 



Much attention is now required in the floater. 

 Mr. Wright remarks, that if the water he suffered 

 to flow over the meadow, for the space of many 

 days without intermission, a white scum is gene- 

 rated, which is found very destructive to the grass ; 

 and if the water be then taken off, and the land 

 exposed in its wet state to a severe frosty night, 

 a great part of the tender grass will be cut off. In 

 Gloucestershire, two methods of avoiding these 

 injuries are practised. One is, to take the water 

 off by day, to prevent the scum, and to turn it on 

 again at night, to guard against the frost; the 

 other method is, to take the water off early in the 

 morning, and if that day he dry, to suffer it to re- 

 main off for a few days and nights ; for if the land 

 experiences only one drying day, the frost. at night 

 will do little injury. The former of these practices, 

 where it is found not too troublesome, is preferable 

 to the latter. About the middle of this month, 

 the floater begins to use the water rather more 

 sparingly than in autumn or winter, for his chief 

 object now is, to encourage or force vegetation. 



In the last week of this month, if the preceding 

 management has been good, there will be a good 

 bite for ewes and lambs. 



Mr. Boswell prescribes rolling after Candlemas. 



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