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determined by the weather; the fole object being to avoid unneceſſary labour and expence, and to get it into ſtack, as green and full of juices as poffible, without running any riſque of its fuffering there, from not being(what is tech- nically called) fufficiently hayed. The ſtacks in general being very high, they are obliged, in forming them, to make uſe of a kind of ſtage or ſcaffolding, which ſaves labour, is more expeditious, and infinitely preferable, both for corn and hay, to the old practice of carrying loads up ladders on the backs of the labourers.

he number of accidents, and conſequent loſſes, which happen annually by the firing of hay-ſtacks, in different places through England, may render it proper to mention, a method equally ſenfible and ſimple, which I once ſaw tried with ſucceſs in Suſſex. When a ſtack is ſo hot, as to raiſe apprehenſions of its taking fire, let a man be directed 0 that part of it which is moſt likely to begin to burn, which will be known by a greater degree of finking in the roof, and there cut out acroſs the ridge, and throw down, a ſpace no broader than juſt to allow him to work; and ſo continue cutting and throwing down the hay, till he gets below the heat. The warmth and fteam will be ſo great, as to make it impoſſfible for one man to work long at a rime; but this may be remedied, at leaſt in ſome degree made eaſier, by making two or three men take it in turn, Perhaps it may be neceſſary to make more than one open-

of Arts,&c. oflered a premium for ſuch a diſcovery. It is not to be expected, that under the preſent ſyſtem of haymaking, any thing very advantageous can be done; but let the ingenious turn their thoughts to the object, and it is to be hoped, that ſome means may be found out, by which this deſirable end may be attained; and we may be the more ſanguine in our expectations, when it is conſidered, how many things, formeriy judged impoſſible, have of late been found practicable. To inſtance one, among many others, the pinning above two hundred threads, by one perſon, is now common, which, within our memory, was treated as a chimera, and declared totally im-

practicable.

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