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and experience, is found to be attended with the 

 most desirable success. Even in the most unfa- 

 vourable weather, the hay made according to the 

 Middlesex manner, is superior to that made by any 

 other method under similar circumstances. It is 

 to be regretted that this very excellent practice has 

 not yet, except in a very few instances, travelled 

 beyond the borders of the county. But as it most 

 justly deserves the attention and imitation of far- 

 mers in other districts, I shall, for their informa- 

 tion, endeavour minutely to describe the method in 

 which the Middlesex farmers make their hay. 



In order that the subject may be more clearly 

 understood, I shall relate the particular operations 

 of each day, during the whole process, from the 

 moment in which the mower first applies his scythe, 

 to that in which the hay is secured either in the 

 barn or in the stack. Before I enter more imme- 

 diately on this task, I would just premise a few ob- 

 servations, viz. when the grass is nearly fit for 

 mowing, the Middlesex fanner enclravours to se- 

 lect the best mowers, in number proportioned to 

 the quantity of his grass, and the length of time 

 it would be advisable to have it hi hand ; which 

 having done-, he lets it out as piece-work, or to be 

 mown by the acix; *. 

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* Each m;m : m an :UTC and n half to an ncrc and 



three quail- !o two acres per day, 



during the 



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