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eddish, and may be eaten by sheep or cattle 

 in the fall of the year. Horses are better 

 kept from it : it is not proper to pasture. 

 To raise seed from this grass is little or no 

 loss to the hay, that I could perceive. I 

 mowed it at the proper time of mowing, to 

 make hay : for all the best seed is ripe first ; 

 and by that process all the best seed is pre- 

 served : and I found it the best way to 

 draw all the longest timothy out by the 

 head, after it is mown, and shake out all 

 the bottom grass, which will leave more 

 than one-half of the substance, and bind 

 that drawn out into sheaves, the same as 

 wheat, and set it up in shocks until it is 

 ready to thrash. By shaking out the loose 

 grass, or grass without seed, it is better to 

 harvest and thrash. Then I took it into 

 the barn, and thrashed it ; then mixed the 

 straw, or thrashed timothy, amongst the 

 remaining part of the hay which I had 

 shaken out. Thus it becomes very profit- 

 able. It sold for the same price as the rest 

 of the hay, and only lost some weight. 



