50 AGRICULTURAL SURVEY 



X. 



GRASS LAjYD—JVITH HLYTS FOR 

 ITS IMPROVEMENT. 



JL HE meadows, are the firit fort of grafs land in 

 the county, which I fhall endeavour to defcribe ; 

 they are, in many parts of the county, reckoned 

 much inferior in value to the arable land, and, 

 in general, they are very much neglected. 



In their natural Hate, they make a bad appear- 

 ance, being fpongy and full of rufhes; yet they 

 are feldom wet in themfelves, but chiefly fo from 

 being dript upon by the fprings which iflue out of 

 the arable land which lies above them. The belt 

 mode of draining thefe meadows, is to keep the 

 rivulet open to a free difcharge in the lowefr 

 parts (a) y and to cut two very deep drains, one on 

 each fide, parallel with the rivulet, juft between 

 the arable and meadow land, where the fprings 

 generally (hew themfelves ; and thefe two drains, 

 if they are funk deep enough to get below the 

 fprings, will, nine times out of ten, lay the mea- 

 dows dry. 



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