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many seasons such ticklish work, and so extremely 



6, the fanner should take care to ma; 

 it with as good contrivance as he- can. To have a 

 plenty of hands is a material point ; for, if good 

 be not made of favourable days, the work will 

 certainly be unprofitable. In order to this, the 

 fanner should have some other work always in 

 readiness for his people, in case the weather is too 

 wet for hay-making. For men, he may have com- 

 post-hills to turn over and mix, borders to grub or 

 dig- up, carting manure, &c. Women he may em- 

 ploy in stone-picking, weeding, &c. When many 

 'hands are kept, this management will save much 

 useless expence. In the making the hay, the get- 

 ting it at last on to the large cock should never be 

 omitted. 



Many farmers onlv run it up in broad rows, and 

 load from them on to the waggons ; but it is better 

 to employ all the hands in cocking it : for, if the 

 cocks are large and well made, the hay will take no 

 damage in them, even in very heavy rains ; and, 

 by all the men being so employed, much the more 

 will be secured. 



HAY. 



Mr. Ducket's method of trying the heat of his 

 hay- stacks well deserves noting. He thrrsLs a scaf- 

 fold bolt, or other stout and long iron bolt into it, 

 to give an easy admission to a gun rod, with a 

 strong worm at the end of it, with which he screws 

 out a sample, and discovers riot only the heat, but 

 the colour of the -hay : if the stack wants air, he 



makes 



