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throw lime in, the great divisibility of which body 

 in water is well known : these are means of adding 

 to the manuring quality of the water very easily to 

 be practised. 



17th, To attempt describing the minutiae of 

 creeling wears, sluices, stops, and to note how 

 trenches or drains are dug, would be unnecessary. 

 In Mr. Boswell's pamphlet on watered-meadows, a 

 work of great merit, these particulars are detailed ; 

 and to him I refer for the necessary informa- 

 tion. 



18th, Wherever roads intervene, the Italian 

 method is to form a work of masonry to act as a 

 syphon : the water is made to descend perpendi- 

 cularly on one side the road in a tunnel of brick 

 or stone, pass in an arch under the bed of the road, 

 and rise on the other side in a similar tunnel, and 

 then pass on in its course. I have seen several of 

 these between Coni and Turin, and in other parts 

 of Lombard}-. 



This montl. M! the period for turn- 



ing out varic ioek to grass or cK 



it is now a question which demands the young far- 

 ma -enous attention, whether he should 

 comply with the more common custom 

 off certain crops, or \\hethcr lie si, ter- 

 mine to pursue the soilii. :n, of mou . 

 and giving them green in the stables, si 

 yards, &c. Considering ttu iperiority of 

 the latter mode of consumption, there is not a 



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