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per acre, have been expended upon the 

 formation of the meadow. 



Another objection arises from an appre- 

 hension, that this use of the water will 

 give encouragement to the growth of 

 rushes. In answer to this objection I can 

 say that the effect is found otherwise ; for 

 this practice is never known to propagate 

 rushes ; and in land where they before 

 prevailed, by the very frequent occurrence 

 of its deep drains, it tends powerfully to 

 check and to destroy them. The manure, 

 likcAvise, which it annually affords to the 

 land, is an enemy to rushes, by making 

 them more palatable to cattle and sheep. 



Another objection to this practice, take* 

 its origin from a supposed inferiority in 

 the quality of floated-meadow hay. This 

 inferiority, however, is not so much the 



fault 



