12 MINUTES JUNE 



7- 7 . 



GRASSLAND. J UNE 2 8. The herbage of the dairy paf- 

 tures (lee GRASSLAND, vol. I. alfo MIN. 107.) 

 confifting of rye-grafs, white clover, and a 

 few of the taller graffes, having run up in 

 patches to feed, I had it fwept over with the 

 fithe ; partly to improve the feed, which would 

 foon have been much incumbered by the dry 

 flrawlike bents ; and partly for the fodder, this 

 year of fcarcity of grafs for hay. 



Shut them up for a few days to frefhen : 

 gave one {hilling an acre for mowing ; and to- 

 day have finilhed carrying fourteen jags (about 

 nine or ten tons) of hay off forty-feven acres. 



The hay is more than tolerable ; for the 

 pailures not having been too hard flocked, there 

 was a fine bottom of white clover ; which mixed 

 with the frelh ftalks of the blade-grafles, like- 

 \viie cut in the fulnefs of fap, and the whole 

 made flowly in fmall cocks, the hay is green and 

 fweet to a great degree ; and will next winter 

 no doubt be worth from fifty {hillings to three 

 pounds a ton. 



Nine tons of hay at 55*. - - . 24 15 o 



Mowing 47 acres .2 7 



Making and carrying, 



about ---27 4140 



Neat profit j. 20 o o 



befides 



