On the Raifing of Red Clover Seed. nn 



rounding, and raifed on the handle ; this coIIe6ls or keeps from 

 fcattering the heads which are ftruck off from the grafs by this 

 cradle ; different fizes are ufed, lefs than the above defcribed, 

 for women and children, who colleft large quantities in this 

 way. 



On rich lands ordinarily no feed is raifed from the firft crop. 

 If the land is highly manured, or otherwife very good, the firft 

 crop of grafs is fo thick that it yields no feed worth gathering: 

 the fecond crop being fhorter and thinner, is commonly well 

 feeded. Sometimes confiderable quantities of feed is (fathered 

 from the firft crop, on the land where the wheat is cut the fame 

 year; the ftubble prevents the clover from growing too thick 

 to produce feed. 



The fecond crop of grafs on good land is mowed fo hi^rh as 

 to cut off the heads of the clover, and as little of the orafs as 

 poffible ; a man will mow two or three acres in this manner in 

 a day. The time of mowing is when at leaft one half of the 

 heads are turned or become dry ; it is then raked immediately 

 into fmall heaps or cocks, of the quantity of about the bip^nefs 

 of a large corn bailiet. 



The machine ufed for collefting this feed, and drawn by a 

 horfc, is feldom made ufe of in collefting from the fecond crop; 

 thofe who donotovv^n a machine, flippofe theexpence of hirino-, 

 with the lofs of feed trod down by the horfe, and levelled ',vith 

 the wlieels, being near equal to the exncnce of mov/iuCT the 

 fecond crop. 



