4(70 Cultivation of Grafs Land* Ilay-fzveep and Sledge* 



good condition, there fhould not be the fmalleft wafle in the binding ; the loofe 

 parts being put in the middle of the truffes and the bands twitted from the long 

 coarfe parts. 



The quantity of produce obtained from an acre of grafs land muft be different 

 according to the fertility, management, feafon, and other circumftances ; but from 

 one to two loads is the ufual proportion. 



For the purpofc of facilitating the bufinefs of getting the hay together in bad 

 fhowery feafons, bay-fweeps znAJlcdgts have been conflructed. 



A contrivance of the firft fort has been invented by Mr. Middleton, which feems 

 to be poffeffed of merit. It is fo conflructed as to be drawn by four horfes in 

 pairs, but frnallerones might bemadeto be drawn by two, and is managed by 

 two boys, one of whom drives each pair of horfes, being mounted on one of 

 them. Where the ground is level, little more will be neceflary in order to affift 

 the machine than merely to break and turn up the rows of hay in different places ; 

 but where the ridges are high, and there are confiderable inequalities of furface, 

 it will be requifite toaflifl the implement by occasionally flicking the prongs of 

 a fork into the flill hay juft before the machine, that it may more effectually catch 

 it. 



In Yorkiliire another fort of contrivance, termed a fay-fledge, is employed for the 

 fame purpofe, and in fome fituations is probably to be preferred : as where the land 

 is dry, the ridges high, and the ground irregular in the furface. With this ma 

 chine and two horfes the hay may be collected together, loaded and carried to the 

 flacking place, in much lefs time than by means of a cart. In loading it, the 

 hay is firft to be raked into rows, when the fledge is brought to the end of one of 

 them, and one of the horfes made topafs on each fide, until it has collected afuffici- 

 ent quantity for a load, one of them then crofling the row of hay, the load is con 

 veyed to the flack ; when by the horfes being turned about, the fledge is drawn 

 back, leaving its load behind it. 



The mofl economical and advantageous methods of confuming this fort of fodder 

 will be confidered when we come to fpeak of the different modes of managing live 

 ilock. 



After-Grafs, or Rouen. In fome diflridls much of the after-grafs is frequently 

 cut and made into a green foft fort of hay, in the manner that has been already 

 mentioned j but &quot;in others it is fed off by live flock in the autumn. Both mode 

 may be ufeful under different circumftances. In fituations where plenty of ma- 



