92 MINUTES JAN-. 



rj^ The utility of large wide drains is obvious 



MEADOWS. in a meadow adjoining to the fuite abovcmen- 

 tioned ; a drain fix or eight feet wide, and five 

 or fix deep, lays dry a meadow of eight or ten 

 acres : a carriage might, .even now, pafs with 

 fafety by the fide of it. 



If the beds be made lefs than twenty yards 

 wide there is not, as has been obferved, room 

 to turn a roller or waggon with fafety upon 

 them ; if, therefore, the open drains, at that 

 diftance, be not furHcient to make beds of that 

 xvidth fufficiently dry and firm, under-drains 

 Ihould be laid into them. 



If the beds be made wider than thirty yards, 

 a carriage will be wanted to fet about the mould, 

 which rifes out of the new-made drains, and 

 which will afterwards arife from the parings of 

 the fides, and the fhovellings of the bottoms. 

 But if they be made within that width, a ma* 

 will be able to manure the whole without that 

 additional expence ; for if the mould be caft, 

 in the firft inftance, as far as may be from 

 the drains, and be afterwards, in turning it 

 over, removed ftill farther from them, the 

 farthefl {hovel -full will not require to be caft 

 more than ten yards. 



It is obvious that, in draining a meadow in 

 this manner, the paltry gripes and \vater- 



furrow 



