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HED 



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have but little other fodder may be 

 apt to consider as an advantage. — 

 But it will contract no virtue, while 

 it loses its saltness. The fresh wa- 

 ter will damage it ; especially for 

 those who have plenty of other 

 fodder, or even straw to mix with 

 it. 



Salt hay should not be cut when 

 the full or change of the moon is 

 approaching, lest the tides should 

 be high, before it can be got off 

 from the marsh. 



"Gen. Smith, of Suffolk, makes 

 use of a horse-rake, for raking on 

 his smooth mowing grounds,which 

 with one man, a horse, and a boy 

 to ride the horse, will gather hay 

 as fast as six men in the ordinary 

 way. The rake is about ten feet 

 long ; the teeth about two feet ; 

 and at right angles, from these are 

 some upright slats of the same 

 length, set, at the lower end into 

 the piece into which the teeth are 

 morticed, and into another light 

 slender piece at the top. 



" The teeth, when in operation, 

 run along the ground nearly hori- 

 zontally, with the points a little the 

 lowest, so as to run under the hay, 

 and as they take it up, the upright 

 slats retain it till the rake is full, 

 when the man who follows it be- 

 hind turns it over, and thus emp- 

 ties it in a row ; then lifts it over 

 the hay thus emptied, and sets it 

 in beyond it ; and so it proceeds 

 on, till it is again filled, and the 

 same process is again repeated. 



" When one strip across the piece 

 is thus raked up, the horse is turn- 

 ed round, and another strip is ra- 

 ked in the same manner, emptying 

 the hay at the ends of th& last heaps 



raked up, so that in this way win- 

 rows are formed. When it is thus 

 raked into winrows, it is dragged 

 up by the rake into bundles, large 

 enough for making into cocks." 

 farmer''s Assistant. 



HEDGES. A variety of shrubs 

 and trees have been made use of 

 for hedges, but that which appears 

 to be in highest repute is the 

 American Hedge Thorn, (cra/cegM^ 

 cordatce) Mr. Quincy, of Massachu- 

 setts, gives a statement of his mode 

 of making hedges of this plant, 

 which was published in the third 

 volume of the Massachusetts Agri- 

 cultural Repository/, p. 27, and 

 from which we extract the follow- 

 ing particulars. The seedling 

 thorns 10,000, were imported in 

 March 1808, from the nursery of 

 Thomas Main, near Georgetown, 

 in the District of Columbia, and 

 planted in a hedge course of two 

 hundred and fifty-five rods, so far 

 as was necessary to fill that extent 

 in one line, each plant being five 

 inches apart. The residue were 

 planted in a nursery for the pur- 

 pose of filling vacancies. 



The hedge course was made in 

 sandy land, ploughed, of the width 

 of four feet, and manured and pre- 

 pared, precisely as for Indian corn; 

 except only that after ploughing, 

 the centre for two feet wide was 

 turned over with the spade. With- 

 out other preparation, the hedge 

 was planted in April, 1808, on a 

 level, without either bank or ditch. 



Mr. Quincy's communication i^ 

 dated 25th of June, 1 8 1 3, at which 

 time he remarks *' 1 consider the 

 experiment now as completed, so 

 far, at least, as is necessary for a 



