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The principal top-dreffing was foaper's-wafle. This 

 ufeful citizen has fhewn many proofs of his know- 

 ledge and good economy in farming and irrigation, or 

 watering of meadow and grafs lands, in the vicinity 

 of Strabane. 



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SECT. 8. Mode of Hay-making. 



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THE fmall lap-cock, of about ten or twelve pound 

 weight, made up green is the common practice of the 

 county, and alfo of the greater part of the North of Ire- 

 land i experience having taught the people, for many 

 years, that the large grafs-cock, generally followed 

 through many parts of the kingdom, is by no means 

 the mode fuitable to this county, and particularly in 

 wet feafons, which are too frequently fo a,t the feafon 

 of the year, that hay is ufually made up here, being 

 feldom earlier than the firft of September, except in 

 new laid down upland, moft commonly in the vicinity 

 of towns, where manures can be fpared for meadows. 

 In fuch fituations, from the beginning of July to the 

 beginning of Augnft is the ufual time for hay-making; 

 but in all cafes of managing hay harvefl, this work is 

 never attacked early enough by the common farmers, 

 who are not under the controul of gentlemen, or of fuch 

 as are better informed than themfelves. There is one 

 reafon, why the farmers permit their hay-grafs to re- 

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