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'* may not afford plenty of water in sum* 

 " mer, or very dry years, yet it may 

 " abound in winter; and watering at tiiat 

 " season alone is well worth the expense 

 " of all the necessary works in most cases.'* 

 I have tried summer-watering, and found 

 that it had a too powerful tendency to 

 make the meadow coarse. It will liket 

 wise, in many instances, have the eflect 

 of rotting sheep, wliich feed upon grass 

 thus encouraged. 



Page 307. Mr. Young says, " All 

 " spaces that are level, or nearly level, 

 " should be ploughed on to lands or 

 " ridges eleven yards wide, and raised, if 

 '* water be plentiful, three feet higher or\ 

 " the crpwn than in the furrow." 



Such a direction as this should not, I 

 think, have been given to the farmer 



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