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sheet of ice to a meadow, it may not be 

 amiss to discontinue floating, for the frost 

 will sometimes take such strong hold upon 

 the land, as to draw it into heaps, and very 

 much injure the evenness of the surface 

 of the beds. It is requisite, in these 

 two months, that each meadow should be 

 inspected at least once in every week, to 

 see that the equal distribution of the water 

 is not obstructed by the continual influx 

 of weeds, leaves, sticks, and the like. 



In the month of Februar}^ a more than 

 common degree of attention is required 

 by the floated meadow. If you now 

 suffer the water to flow over the meadow 

 for the space of many daj-s without inter- 

 mission, a white scum is generated, which 

 is found very destructive to the grass ; and 

 if you now take off the water, and expose 

 the land, in its wet state, to a severe frosty 



night. 



