Answers to Objections. 



It may not be improper, before I finish 

 my remarks on this subject, to make some 

 reply to a few objections which are too 

 often made to the practice of floating-. 

 The most weighty of these objections, is 

 the expense necessarily incurred in exe- 

 cuting the work, and the waste of land in 

 cutting so many wide ditches. To both 

 these objections, one satisfactory answer, 

 I presume, may be given : that although 

 even a fourth part of a meadow be con- 

 sumed in ditches, yet if the remaining 

 three shall produce at least twice the crop 

 which the whole land before produced, 

 there is no room for complaint either of 

 loss of land, or that three or four pounds 

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