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this could be as easily got, which at present is suffered 

 to stagnate in the ground, or, if collected in drains, 

 then heedlessly allowed to run to waste ; for there were 

 no unusual facilities on this estate for obtaining a sup- 

 ply of water. All that is required is procured from the 

 drainage of about 200 acres of land. It is carried in 

 earthen pipes along a gentle declivity, and with very 

 little leakage, about 600 yards from the reservoir to 

 the mill, and is then discharged through a tunnel ; 

 the whole distance, from the reservoir to the outfall, 

 being 1,200 yards, and the total fall being about 50 

 feet." 



An instance of somewhat kindred experience was 

 related to me recently in casual conversation by a 

 neighbouring gentleman, whose original profession as a 

 soldier, and subsequent success in intelligent agricul- 

 ture, remind one rather of the late Sir John Conroy's 

 performances. We had been speaking of lime-water 

 having been found accidentally in Cheshire to be a 

 remedy for rinderpest, when he remarked that it is 

 quite possible that it may turn out to be the longed-for 

 specific at last ; for that in Ireland it was the house- 

 hold medicine of the peasant for a disease affecting 

 cattle pastured on bog-lands — a sort of paralysis that 

 seizes the limbs, but which is effectually cured by re- 

 peated doses of lime-water. The reason for this is 

 probably that the bog-pasture and water are inordi- 

 nately deficient in the lime element that is required by 

 the system for the formation and support of bone. The 

 local name of the disease is "crupawn." But what I 

 wish to mention, by way of hint to the young farmer, 

 is, that this gentleman, having observed and reasoned 

 on these facts, found an opportunity to purchase at a 



