JUNE.] MEADOWS. 



shaken out direclly after the scythe ; wind-rowed, 

 that is. raked into rows, before the evening, sh; : 

 out again next morning, and in the afternoon got 

 into grass-cocks : these should be opened the morn- 

 ing following, and got into the great eock by 

 night ; by which time the hay will be well made, 

 if no rain comes ; but, in case of bad weather the 

 process will be more tedious. If successive rains 

 come, so that the hay is damaged, and you are 

 fearful of its turning out unprotitably, by all means 

 salt it as you stack it ; a peck strewed in layers on 

 the stack to a load of hay : it will have a very great 

 eifecl: in sweetening it, however bad it may be, 

 even to blackness ; and it has been found by expe- 

 riment, that horses and horned cattle will eat da- 

 maged hay salted, xvhich they would not touch 

 \vithout that addition. 



The following is the process in Middlesex : 

 This branch of the rural art has, by the farmers 

 of Middlesex, been brought to a degree of perfec- 

 tion altogether unequalled by any other part of the 

 kingdom. The neat husbandry, and superior skill 

 and management that are so much, and justly, ad- 

 mired in the arable farmers of the best cultivated 

 districts, may, with equal justice and propriety, be 

 said to belong, in a very eminent degree, to the 

 hay fanners of Middlesex, for by them may very 

 fairly be claimed the merit of having reduced the 

 art of making good hay into a regular system ; 

 which, after having stood the test of long practice 



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