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sufficient to burst . into flame, as it has sometime* 

 done : of course, the grass from such land must 

 have more time allowed in making it into hay. 

 This the Middlesex farmers are perfectly aware of; 

 and, when the weather proves moderately drying, 

 they make most excellent hay. But when very hot 

 or scorching, they, as well as most other farmers, 

 under similar circumstances, are sometimes mis- 

 taken. In such weather the grass becomes crisp, 

 rustless, and handles like hay before the sap is suffi- 

 ciently dissipated for it to be i'n a state fit to be 

 put into large stacks. But if that be done when 

 it is thus insufficiently made, it generally heats too 

 much, sometimes becomes mow-burnt, and in some 

 ca.ses, though very rarely, has. taken fire*. 



T/ie great quantity fhey have in hand at the same 

 time, makes it c&iremety 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, 

 vvery minute after that precise time, it continues 

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

 perties, by evaporation^. Even the difference of 

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



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

 much ; and as to tiring, no such thing was ever known. /. M. 



j- Every thing \ve smell affords proof positive, that more than 

 watery particles evaporate. J. M. 



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