Domestic Encyclopædia (1802)/Pond-Water

POND-WATER, to which cattle generally resort for drink, is a fluid strongly impregnated with saline and pily particles: hence it should never be suffered spontaneously to evaporate during the summer.

For the important purpose of Irrigation (which see), pond-water is in every respect equal to the liquor collected in farm-yards. See also Fluid Manures; p. 161 of this volume.