496 SWABEY DIARY. 
24th Janwary.—Occupied on the same business as yesterday. We 
are now obliged to turn the water off the water meadows and send our 
horses in to feed ; these meadows produce repeated crops by the sim- 
ple process of turning the brooks over them. ‘To effect this of course 
the meadow must be on a slope, and a stream of water adjacent to the 
top. A ditch with small channels at intervals is then dug along the 
upper part of the meadow, into which the water being turned it flows 
continually over the soil, which produces repeated crops, and can be 
drained at pleasure. 
(To be continued), 
