OF THE COUNTY OF TYRONE. 7^ 



little lap-cocks have always the advantage over every 

 other fyftem of hay-making. 



It is amazing to find, what flavery and hardlhip 

 thofe cocks will endure, before they are materially in- 

 jured. I have frequently known ' them to remain a 

 month together in the lap-cock ftate, and, after all, 

 to have fuffered very little. 



The whole fecret is, in making thofe cocks fecure at 

 firft, and forming them into an even convex, to turn 

 the rain with the greater eafe, and frequently changing 

 their fituation, without breaking the firft fhape given 

 to them, whilft the grafs was green and frefh. If ever 

 the furface be broken, after the lap-cock is firft made 

 from the frefh grafs, the hay will furely fufFer in bad 

 weather. It is the incruftation, which the frefh grafs 

 foon acquires after being formed into lap-cocks, that 

 fecures the whole, and in which lies the whole fecret; 

 and this (hews how necefTary it is to lap the hay as 

 foon as pollible after being cut. 



In the hay-yard a rick is preferred to a cock, as the 

 expence of thatching is lefs ; and, when hay is not cut, 

 but pulled, there is certainly lefs wafte in a rick. 



Obfervationt. 



A prejudiced notion almoft univerfally prevails 

 throughout the county, and, I believe, through moft 

 parts of the North of the kingdom, namely, that natu- 

 ral 



