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will find that it will flow on towards th^ 

 ends of the floating-gutters, and will sel- 

 dom spread itself, as you wish, on the 

 higher parts of the meadow. This is to 

 be remedied by placing stops or obstrue-' 

 tions in the feeders and floating-gutters, at 

 distances proportioned to the descent of 

 the land. When the velocity of the water 

 is great, the stops of course will be nume- 

 rous. A stop is usually made by driving 

 down a few stakes in a line across the 

 ditches which distribute the water, and 

 may be increased by placing a board, 

 clods of earth, &c., at the front of the 

 stakes. By the obstruction which these 

 stakes, &c. give to the course of the water,, 

 it is checked in its progress, and is raised,, 

 and kept up to a proper height, either to 

 flow over the sides of the ditches, or 

 through small notches cut in their sides^ 

 at (he distance of about a yard from each 



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