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the quantity of water and length of time for floodint;. 

 A very small stream," if it has a considerable fall, 

 may be carried over a vast quantity of ground, and 

 •used several times. Good management in this case 

 will be required, in order to make the most of it ; 

 and losing fall in such a case is wasting the stream. 

 If you were once to see the advantages of irrigation, 

 and would practice it, a great portion of this county 

 might l)e easily and cheaply improved ; every spring- 

 and rivulet, however insignificant, would be turned 

 to the important and now neglected purpose of irri- 

 gation, fertilizing, in proportion to its size, either a 

 small surface or an extensive tract. 



No, XXL 



Ye farmers here your sense display, 

 And while the sun shines, make your haij, 

 Seize on the hour, ere it be lost, 

 Or soon you'll know it to your cost. 

 By time delayed, or time mispent, 

 Vour profit s lost, perhaps your rent ; 

 Then learn this lesson, meet for all. 

 No art of man can time recal. 



Hmf-making depends so much on circumstances, 

 that it is hard to give specilic rules ; the chief one, 

 however, is, give it as little drying as consists with 

 safety — never, if possible, make it into large field 

 cocks, nor suffer it to heat except in the rick — the 

 following hints may be useful, you will perceive, 

 from reading- them, that you are frequently in the 

 habit of spoihng yoiu" hay by giving it too much 

 weather — thus destroying its juices, injuring its qua- 

 lity, and lessening- its weig-ht. 



First Day — Let all the grass mown before nine 

 o'clock in the morning be tedded out and scattered 

 evenly over all the ground ; for when grass is suf- 

 fered to lie a day or two before it is tedded out of the 

 sM'ath, the upper surface is dried by the sun and 

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