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" stood," says Mr, Young, " through 

 *' several districts I have seen, and a very 

 ** important one.** 



No point or part of this practice, I 

 maintain, can be an important one wliich 

 recommends a five-times repeated use of 

 the same water upon one and the same 

 meadow, without admitting one drop of 

 unstrained water to the lower depart- 

 ments. This is not quite consistent with 

 Mr. Young's concession, that water pos- 

 sesses a manuring quaiiti^ ; for the first use 

 must take from the water a certain degree 

 of its manuring quaUty, and, of course, 

 less of this quality must remain for the 

 second using, and still less for tlie third ; 

 and so on, till at length there remains 

 nothing to be used, upon the lowest part 

 of the meadow, but tlie pure simple ele^ 

 jtnent of water. 



When 



