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ral meadow, fuch as is fituated along brooks and 

 rivers, &c. fliould not be mowed till after the dog- 

 days, which may happen earlier or later in the feafon, 

 but are generally confidcred to be between the id and 

 2oth of Auguft. This obfervation may fometimes hold 

 good, but it very frequently happens that, immediately 

 after the dog-days, wet weather commences j befides, 

 the oat-harveft ufually takes place about this time, or a 

 little after, fo that both works interfere at once, which, 

 of all things, fhould be avoided as much as poffible, 

 as, in cafe of both meeting, the one muft certainly give 

 way to the other, and, by fuch bad management, one, 

 or, perhaps, both, are materially injured, or, at beft, 

 got over in a flovenly manner. 



By being contented with one-third lefs hay, and 

 taking a proper advantage of the fcafon, fo as to have 

 the other two-thirds fecured, before the prefs of the 

 oat-harveft fhould take place, would be found by far 

 the beft economy. 



The above evil arifes from the fodder being con- 

 fumed fo early in the fpring, which obliges the people 

 to let their cattle have the run of the land, intended 

 for meadow, perhaps to the firft of June. Green food, 

 in the fpring feafon, would moft effectually preveo,t 

 this difagrceeble circumftance. 



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