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much, sometimes becomes mow -burnt, and in some 

 cases, though very rarely, has taken tire *. 



The great quantity they hare in hand at the same 

 time, makes it extremely difficult to carry the whole 

 just at the moment it is sufficiently made ; although 

 it is certainly of considerable consequence that it 

 should be so, in order to its yielding the greatest 

 possible weight, and preserving its best quality ; as, 

 every minute after that precise time,, it continues 

 to lose, both in weight, and in its nutritious pro- 

 perties, by evaporation ~j~. Even the difference of 

 an hour, in a very hot drying day, is supposed to 

 occasion a loss of 1 5 or 20 per cent, on the hay, 

 by its being carried beyond the point of perfection, 

 and frequently even a greater loss is sustained. 



The expences are, per acre, as under, viz. 

 Mowing, 3s.; beer, 6d. .036 



Making and stacking, - 096 



Pulling the stack, and laying the hay 



pulled out, upon the stack, O O 6 



Carryforward - JT. O 13 6 



appear, the hay you have shaken out of bastard-cocks to pre- 

 pare for carting, should be cocked in the heat, and remain till 

 the next morning ; then turn and open the cocks, for the air to 

 take away the damp that is collected, which otherwise would 

 heat in the stack, and of course the beauty of the colour would 

 be done away. 



* Hay stacked in a barn in the same state, would not heat too 

 much ; and as to firing, no such thing was ever known. J. M. 



f Every tiling we smell affords proof positive, that more than 

 watery particles evaporate. /. M. 



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