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When Mr. Young says that Catch-work 

 is " a point little understood through 

 " several districts," he appears to me to 

 have selected not quite the proper term 

 to be used upon the occasion — he should 

 have said little esteemed instead of little 

 Understood, for it must be understood in 

 every district where watering is kno^vn— 

 children can play at it, but men generally 

 despise it. To catch water five times, by 

 means of traps set at the ends of five dead- 

 level ditches, is a very tame and tedious 

 process ; keeps the water too long soaking 

 into and chilling the land, and increases 

 that coarseness in the grass, which is an 

 evil too apparent in the best formed mea- 

 dows, and ought to be guarded against by 

 every possible means. Mr. Young, in 

 the plate which he has given to illustrate^ 

 this plan, has introduced the whole num- 

 ber of stop, as he calls them, but which 



