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accrues from the addition of the fprit, but none at all 

 from the rufties, which dwindle away, before the hay is 

 brought into the haggard. Indeed at beft hay of this 

 defcription is only fit for dry cows, and a running ftock 

 of black cattle. Rufhes are not fo good for thatch as 

 fprit, the latter being tubulous, and of courfe better 

 calculated to difcharge rain water than the former, 

 which is pithy. 



In collecting the prime part of the grafs, after being 

 mowed, for hay-feeds, much attention is fometimes 

 paid; but this can only take place in the firft or fecond 

 crop, after the land has been laid down ; for future 

 crops yield but very little feed. The white mea- 

 dow grafles are always moft prevalent, and are moft 

 fought after. In new laid down grounds of almoft 

 every defcription, the white meadow grafles generally 

 predominate, for the firft and fecond feafons, and 

 fhoot longer than the other grafles, which gives, aa 

 advantage in feparating them from the general mafs, as 

 they project beyond the bulk of the fwarth. Of this 

 difpofition thofe, who wifli to coller, the feeds pure, 

 avail themfelves, before the fwarth be broken out or 

 fcattered. It is tied up in fmall {heaves, and placed to 

 dry like ftooks of corn, till the feeds are ripe, and fit to 

 threfti out. So much for economy with refpeft to faving 

 grafs-feeds, but to return : . 



The great art, in making hay from natural grafles, is 

 to break out the fwarth thoroughly, by hand, and not 

 by the lazy way of tofling it about with forks, and 



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