354 MEADOWS, [JUNE. 



excess of urine, and consequently it sells at a re- 

 duced price *. 



In the making of hay, some attention should be 

 paid to the quality of the soil, and the kind of 

 herbage growing on it. The hard, bcnty, hay, of 

 a poor soil, is in little or no danger ofjiring in 

 stack; and should, therefore, be put very early to- 

 gether, in order to promote a co)isidcrable perspira- 

 tion, as the only means of imparting a flavour to 

 such hay, which will make it agreeable to horses and 

 lean cattle : it will be nearly unfit for every other 

 sort of stock. 



It is the succulent herbage of rich land, or . 

 highly manured, that is more likely to generate 

 sufficient to burst into flame, as it has sometimes 

 done : of course, the grass from such land must 

 have more time allowed in making it into hay. 

 This the Middlesex farmers are perfectly aware of; 

 and, when the weather proves moderately drying, 

 they make most excellent hay. But when very hot 

 or scorching, they, as well as most other farn 

 under similar circumstances, are sometimes mis- 

 taken. In such weather the grass becomes crisp, 

 rustless, and handles like hay before the sap is suffi- 

 ciently dissipated for it to be in a state fit to be 

 put into large stacks. But if that be done when 

 it is thus insufficiently made, it generally heats too 



much, 



* Observation. If you woull make your hay come out of 

 of a fine colour, and the beauty of the flowers to 



appear, 



