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Econoin ical Water- Meadmv. 



horses^ fhougli it answers well for milking cows and, in the 

 spring of tlie year, for sheep, — say, until June, but no longer. 

 The mode I adopted in putting on the water was to float about 

 one -half of the meadow at one time, letting the water on about 3 

 days and nights, and allowing it the same time to drain off, and so 

 on alternately until the beginning of May, when I ceased. 



The fall of the water from the highest part (near the dam) in 

 the brook to the point where the main drain empties itself again 

 into the brook is, as near as I can ascertain, 22 inches. 



I am. Sir, yours truly, 



William Paxton. 



Langford Farm, Bicester, Oxon. 

 Sept. I6th, 1839. 



XXXVl.—On Argyleshire Ca^//e.— By E. F. Welles, Esq. 



To the Editor of the Journal of the English Agricultural Society. 

 Sir, 



Some years ago I published a letter in the ' British Farmers' 

 Magazine,' giving an account of the transplantation of a small 

 herd of Argyleshire cattle into the fertile pastures of Hereford- 

 shire, and threw out some suggestions as to the probable results. 

 From the time that has since elapsed (I believe as much as 15 

 years), I am, from being in the habit of seeing and making ob- 

 servations on them, enabled to speak with more accuracy and 

 certainty as to the effects which have actually taken place, which 

 are perhaps less material than might have been imagined, after 

 such a lapse of time. I believe this to be the only attempt at 

 the introduction of a breeding- stock of this sort into the county. 

 They are in the hands of Edward Poole, Esq., a gentleman who, 

 from his connexions in the north, where he has estates, was 

 enabled to procure some of the best blood, principally from 

 the well-known stocks of Lord Strathmore and the Duke of 

 Argyle, 



After he had bred from them for a few years, I took a journey 

 myself into Northumberland, and purchased half a dozen cows 



to sheep, they are the most wholesome pasture for them, as well as for 

 horses and cattle : but my meadows are all apparently perfectly dry. 



" Welbeck, Jan. 5, 1840. Scott-Portland." 



There is a general impression amongst owners of horses that hay grown 

 on low and moist meadows is not so good for working horses as upland 

 hay : but the hay which is usually called lowland hay is not produced on 

 water-meadow vv'ilh porous subsoils, or well underdrained. as all good water- 

 rneadows should be. The hay produced on such water-meadows is of a 

 much better quality and more nutritious, and may probably be very fit for 

 working horses. — W. L. Rham. 



