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Mr. Young, and all our worshipful com- 

 pany of agricultural book-makers taken 

 in the gross. 



I hope Mr. Young will re-consider this 

 point, and in his next edition will turn the 

 eyes of his readers not up but down the 

 stream, into the valley, where they will 

 always find a confluence of streams, and 

 where, in a rainy season, every ditch and 

 every furrow, on each side of the valley, 

 becomes a rivulet, which conveys its pe- 

 culiar impregnations to the general mass, 

 which will easily be made to roll, in abun- 

 dant richness, over the surface of the ad- 

 joining meadows. 



In the page above quoted, Mr Young 



seems to make summer-watering a part of 



his system, and expresses himself in this 



extraordinary way :— " Though the river 



o 2 " may 



