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jMr. Davis, in bis Agricultural SuiTey 

 of Wiltshire, in describing what he calls 

 flowing meadowS) says, p. 33, " It is 

 *' usual to make the ridges thhtv or forty 

 '' feet wide, or, if water is abundant, per- 

 *' haps sixty feet." 



This, I must venture to say, is a fun- 

 damental mistake, and shews that !\rr. 

 Davis is not so completely master of 

 this art as he seems to l)e of almost every 

 other branch of husbandry. It is, in 

 other words, saying, that the more water 

 there is, the less is used : or, where water 

 is not abundant, use it freely, strain or 

 sift it only over narrow beds ; but wher(^ 

 it is abundant, make the most of it ; strain 

 or sift it over wide beds, and detain ii 

 twice as long in the meadow as you do in 

 the otl^er cuse. 



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