30O JUNE. 



dry while the work-people are at dinner. After 

 dinner, the first thing to be done is, to rake the 

 staddles into double wind-rows * ; next, to rake the 

 grass into single wind-rows ; then the double wind- 

 rows are put into bastard-cocks ; and lastly, the 

 single wind-rows are put into grass-cocks. This 

 completes the work of the second day. 



Third Day. The grass mown and not spread on 

 the second day, and also that mown in the early 

 part of this day, is first to be tedded in the morn- 

 ing ; and then the grass-cocks are to be spread into 

 staddles, as before, and the bastard cocks into 

 staddles of less extent. These lesser staddles, 

 though last spread, are first turned, then those 

 which were in grass-cocks; and next, the grass is 

 turned once or twice before twelve or one o'clock, 

 when the people go to dinner as usual. If the 

 weather has proved sunny and fine, the hay which 

 was last night in bastard-cocks, will this afternoon 

 be in a proper state to be carried*}-; but if the 

 weather should, on the contrary, have been cool 

 and cloudy, no part of it probably will be fit to 

 carry. In that case, the first thing set about after 

 dinner, is to rake that which was in grass-cocks 



* In doing which, every two persons rake the hay in opposite 

 directions, or towards each other, and by that means form a ro\y 

 between them, of double the size of a single wind-row. Each 

 of these double wind-rows are aboui six or eight feet distant from 

 each other J. M. 



f It seldom happens in dry weather, but that it may be carried 

 *n the third day. /. M. 



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