For remarks and additional obſervations. appear to differ eſſentially, from the mode practiſed in the

Northern counties. Here, having the advantage of an

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eit d earlier harveſt, and conſequently having leſs riſque of the lle.

ch hay-crop being injured by the tropical rains, it is generally

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rit got in remarkably green. They do not, however, pretend

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to any regular method; nor is it poffible for the moſt in-

V telligent farmer, to preſcribe any fixed mode of making or chace—.. 2 getting in hay*. The courſe of management muſt be

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and in* The method of making hay moſt commonly uſed in Middleſex(but there ng un- is no univerſal rule) is as follows: What is cut in the morning, or fore part of fallen. the day, is turned out of the ſwath, and ted in the afternoon, in which ſituation it remains till the dew is off(if any has fallen). Next morning it is again J fuch ted or thrown out; immediately after which, it is raked together in wind-row's; caring and, towards evening, if there has been no rain, it is put up into ſmall Kyles

or hand-cocks. Some let it remain in theſe kyles; while others judge it ſafer

to throw three or four of theſe into one larger hand-côck; in which ſtate,

e 5 having ſtood a few days, it is put into the large pike; from which, after

ſtanding till it is fuſſiciently dry, it is carted off the field to the hay-ſtack: ounlty, probably, if it were to remain longer in theſe pikes, there would be leſs riſk of es not its firing afſterwards. In the making of hay, ſo much depends upon the wea-

ther, that no preciſe rules can be laid down. In a dry ſeaſon, like thie preſent,

the proceſs is very ſimple, and the expence moderate, but when it happens to opertes be wet, it requires ſome degree of ingenuity and attention, to ſave and get it in e coiſt green, befides being attended with a heavy additional expence. üe price, In very fine dry ſummers, ſuch as the preſent year, 1793, it is a common ts ol the and juſt remark, that more hay is ſpolled by heating, in conſequence of the here, on farmer being in too great a haſte to get it ſtacked, or put into a rick, than in ortanle. wet ſeaſons. The reafon of Which is, that although the graſs appears to be er the dead and dry, yet it oſten happens, that the ſap of it is not ſufficiently evaporated ſider of before it is ſtacked. This it is which cauſes it to heat, ſo as frequently to take— ack of fire. To prevent this, experience has taught us, that by putting a funnel of 4 pole 0f pieces of wood nailed together, and bored full of holes, into the middle of the ſe ſorts ſtack, and drawing it up, as you proceed in the finiſhing your ſtack or ricl, owed to and letting the funnel remain, till after the rick has been finiſned ſome days, wem⸗ the hay will be preſerved, and prevented from heating too much. of barley It is certain that there cannot be a more important object, in the whole line as for the of agriculture, than to diſcover a method of making hay, to advantage, in oe: ld employ abeatber; and it ſeems not a little ſtrange, that among all the improvements car- , Vf M rying on in this improving age, no public attent on has been paid tothis necefſary ofldde in buſineſs till within theſe two years, when the Society for the Encouragement

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