242 Deſcription of a newly invented Hay-Harrow.[April

the firſt, beeauſe: the grafs will be ſufficiently dry on the upper part, ſo that if the work is done at an éarly hour of the day, the cocks may be-put up in the afternoon; for if it ſhould not be ſufficiently dry, it will be ſo before it is all cocked. This mode of proceeding being more expeditious and leſs expenſive(if not preferable in reſpect to the improvement of the hay) muſt be preferable to the uſual way. For ſuppoſe the hay is put into cocks after this manner, it is ſafe if it ſhould begin to rain the next, and continue for ſome days,

Laſt ſummer I got the graſs of twenty fields made ints cocks the ſecond day from the time the graſs began to be cut, after which day rainy weather commenced, and continued almoſt un- remittingly for ten or twelve days.

By my method I could make much uſé of the little intermiſſion of great rain which was really uſeleis to others, and my hay was freíb and good.

As we cannot be ſure of the weather, and as it is known that hay cannot be made ſo expeditiouſly when we follow the uſual way, we ought to be very careful to make the beſt uſe of fine weather during the hây-harveſt.

The importance of this afſlertion is ſhewn in the following Dutch proverb: That a man is in as great hurry, as if he was going to make hay. But if it is neceſlary to be ſo very anxious of haviag made the hay during fine weather, it will of courſe be indiſpenſably neceſſary to redouble our exertions at an unfavour- able ſeaſon.

How much more preferable muſt this newly invented machine be, by means of which we can do as much work in one day, with one man and a horſe, as fifty men can de in the common way| And where are ſo many men to be found immediately? And how many inconveniencies there are to keep them in order, and ſee thèm do their duty properly è?

1 muſt confeſs that the graſs is not turned ſo neatly and ſo even, when done by the Bay Harrow, as it can be done by hands; but this very circumſtance ſhews the utility of the inſtrument; for the more irregular the graſs is mixed, the ſooner it will dry, becauſe the winds can blow thiough it much eaſier than when it is laid flat together, As it may bappen that the graſs will be heaped up too. much in ſome places, or perhaps too little in others, one labourer will be ſufficient to do that work on the fide of the ditches or other inequalities where the Harrow could not turn the graſs well. One hour will be plenty of time for one man to regulate thehay on three or four acres, or the man who manages the horſe may, during.the time the horſe is fed, or the graſs is left to dry, do that buſineſs.

Farmers may be afraid of letting the Harrow be conducted without having a manafter it to guide it by a cord, leſt the grals