Book VI. CLOVER FAMILY. 



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^eVunS^'thehayTs |reener', amT the ™« & ant Lancashirej foulul 



5549 Snorter «»* tf *«* »'" A '"»' of th? west of Sco Hand this is called tippling or rippling; and 



to answer well in the moist ^ moi P here rl 0t a th ^ ,f a s it is mo vn. " In making a tipple, a person with his 



if the grass is drv, the operation begins as J^fJjif^Se. the n the same is done by the left, until 



the tinnle tapor to a point, and give it as muui a . row After >tandin aicw 



row of tipples placed on each swath ; ,f light tw » the=,e a r P them through . and hen 



hours thflv become so smooth on the outside, that ttetaam Mwn . nto the sl r _ nck or , 



wet, thev are soon dried again m S°fj^ aTe ^l^ ^Tok o/tedded, to make them to, ^as the, 

 if verv drv even into the winter stack, but are nevei _u n as a , eaf dne d in a 



ever reau re it. By this method, not a blade ,s '°» t ' f'^''!^? and a woman will rake to two t.pplers, 

 book I?. a moderate crop, one woman ^jW^SJSSftw women to keep pace with two mowers 

 Ttwo swathers. But -here the crop ,= strong, rt ^W^*^ secure, though it may continue wet 



%1s50 7%* m«W«g tf Ctorer Afl ? , as P^^f'"^ b "tter and more nourishing. The hay is prepared 



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much more expedit.ou=yvv mi tnecio^e fennent ed clover remains goo d,< s.er » u j tnc 



kind of "hay to become heated in any considerable uegiee, 



