228 WATERED MEADOWS, [APRIL- 



WATERED MEADOWS. 



Throughout this month, if there are watered 

 meadows on a farm, the use of them in supporting 

 ewes and lambs is exceedingly great, but Mr. 

 Wright is marked in his caution never to continue 

 it longer, as it will greatly injure the quality of the 

 succeeding crop of hay. Not, however, that there 

 is any positive rule in feeding, as is evident from a 

 case cited by that writer : " Having heard that the 

 proprietor of an old floated meadow at South 

 Cerney had disposed of the produce of it, in the 

 year 17Q5, in a way that was well calculated to 

 ascertain its real value, I wrote to a person who 

 resides on the spot, requesting him to send me a 

 particular account of the producl, and I received 

 the following statement. In order to make the 

 most of the spring feed, the proprietor kept the 

 grass untouched //// the id day of April, from 

 which time he let it to the neighbouring fanners 

 to be eaten off' in Jive weeks (which ran a week into 

 May) by the undermentioned stock, at the fol- 

 lowing rates per head: a sheep, lOd. per week ; 

 a cow, 3s. (3d. ; a colt, 4s. The quantity of the 

 land is eight acres. 



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