bi'anch of husbandry, aud are rationally 

 wpon the look-out for agricultural im- 

 provements. Stimulated by this disap- 

 pointment, I immediately endeavoured 

 to bring forward something more inte- 

 resting, more palpable, and more con- 

 vincing than a dry book. And having 

 fortunately found two or three small por- 

 tions of my glebe well situated to have the 

 water drawn over them, I immediately 

 employed my wondering labourers in 

 cutting feeders and gutters, and in placing 

 strong stake-hedges across the respective 

 brooks as dams, by which means I soon 

 brought the water to work upon five 

 acres, not indeed with precise regularity, 

 but with an effect sufficient to draw the 

 attention of my neighbours to the prac- 

 tice, and at the same time to answer my 

 private interested views : for I obtained, 



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