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25. How to ted hay. 



Ted hay 

 carefully. 



Hay-cocks. 



Larger 



bay-cocks. 



Quich-hay. 



[Fol. 20i.] 



How to 

 know when 

 hay is dry. 



Twist a 

 ■wisp, and 

 then cut it. 



4 or with a shorte pykforke. For good teddynge is the 

 chiefe poynte to make good hey, and than shall it be 

 wyddred all in lyke, or elles not : and whan it is wel 

 wyddred on the ouer syde, and dry, than turne it cleane 

 8 before noone, as soone as the dewe is gone : And yf thou 

 dare truste the wether, lette it lye so all nyghte : and 

 on the nexte daye, tourne it agayne before none, and 

 towarde nyght make it in wyndrowes, and than in smal 



1 2 hey-cockes, and so to stande one nyghte at the leaste, and 

 sweate : and on the nexte fayre day caste it abrode 

 agayne, and tourne it ones or twyse, and than make it 

 in greatter hey-cockes, and to stande so one nyght or 



1 6 more, that it maye vngiue and sweate. For and it sweate 

 not in the hey-cockes, it wyll sweate in the mowe ; and 

 than it wyll be dustye, and not holsome for hors, beastes, 

 nor shepe. And whan it standeth in the cockes, it is 



2o better to lode, and the more hey maye be loded at a lode, 

 and the faster it wyll lye. Quyche-hey commeth of a 

 grasse called crofote, and groweth flatte, after the erthe, 

 and bearethe a yelowe floure halfe a yarde hygh and 



24 more, and hath many knottes towarde the roote, and it 

 is the beste hey for horses and beastes, and the sweteste, 

 if it be well got ; but it wyll haue moch more wyddrynge 

 than other hey, for els he wyll be-pysse hym-selfe and 



28 waxe bote, and after dustye. And for to knowe whanne 

 it is wyddred ynoughe, make a lyttell rope of the same, 

 that ye thinke shulde be moste greneste, and twyne it as 

 harde to-gether bytwen your handes as ye canne, and soo 



32 beynge harde twon, let one take a knyfe, and cut it faste 

 by your hande ; and the knottes wyll be moyste, yf it be 

 not drye ynough. Shorte hey, and leye-hey, is good for 

 shepe, and all maner of catell, if it be well got. A man 



36 maye speke of makynge of hey, and gettynge of come, 

 but god disposeth and ordreth all thynge. 



