35t) \VATERED MEADOWS. [jUXE. 



Brought forward - /\o 13 

 Horses, harness., and carts, - o 2 O 

 Straw for thatch, 3s. ; thatcher and la- 

 bourer, 6d. - O 3 6 



Total expence per acre in the stack -yard is IQs. or 20s. 



Middklmi. 



WATERED MEADOWS. 



These come in for mowing this month. Mr. 

 Boswell directs, that as soon as the hay is cleared, 

 cattle of any sort (no sheep) should be turned in 

 for a week to eat the grass out of the trenches, 

 and what may be left by the mowers. Then the 

 water should be worked on them, care being taken 

 to let it only dribble over every part as thinly as 

 possible, this being the warmest season of the year. 

 The first watering should not last longer than two 

 or three days, before it is shifted to another mea- 

 dow : there will soon be an after-grass of such a 

 rich and beautiful verdure as will astonish a specta- 

 tor not accustomed to it ; and the quantity and 

 quality will be beyond conception, compared with 

 the state the lands were in before they were watered, 

 Mr. Boswell further cautions his reader to guard 

 by all means against keeping the water too long 

 upon tint meadow in warm weather. It will very 

 soon products a wiiite substance like cream, which 

 r- prejudicial to the grass, and shews it has been 

 tipon the ground too long already ; but if permit- 

 tod to remain a little longer, a thick scum will 

 upon the grass, of the consistence of glue, 



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