JUNE. 35Q 



First Day. All the grass mown before nine 

 o'clock in the morning is tedded (or spread), and 

 great care taken to shake it out of every lump, 

 and to strew it evenly over all the ground. Soon 

 afterwards it is turned, with the same degree -of 

 eare and attention ;. and if, from the number of 

 hands, they are able to turn the whole again, 

 they do so, or at least as much of it as they can 

 till twelve or one o'clock, at which time they dine. 

 The first thing to be done after dinner, is to take it 

 into what are called .single wind-rows*; and the 

 last operation of this day is to pu.t it into grass-cocks. 



Second Dmj. The business of this .day com- 

 mences with tedding all the grass that was mown 

 the first day after nine o'clock, and all that was 

 mown this day before nine o'clock. Next, the 

 grass-cocks are to be well shaken out into staddles 

 (or separate plants) of five or six yards diameter. If 

 the crop should be so thin and light as to leave the 

 spaces between these staddles rather large, such 

 spaces must be immediately raked cKan, and the 

 Takings mixed with the other hay, in order to its 

 all drying of an uniform colour. The next busi- 

 ness is to turn the staddles, and after that to turn 

 the grass that was tedded in the first part of the 

 morning once or twice, in the manner described 

 for the fir&t day. This should all be done before 

 twelve or one o'clock, so that the whole may lie to 



* That is, they all rake in such man' er, a^ that h person 

 makes a row, which rows^are three or four feet apart. /. M. 



A a 4 dry 



