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fcldom mows more than his day-mowing ; 

 which, if he be a good hand, he performs 

 in a few hours, in the morning and evening; 

 generally lying by in the middle of the 

 day. 



The Yorkmire mowers labour hard during 

 the Ihort hours they work : their fithes are 

 of uncommon length, and they take their 

 fwath of unufual width ; feldom lefs than 

 three yards ; fome of them ten or eleven feet 

 wide ; and, what is I believe peculiar tothem, 

 they invariably " keep ftroke;" that is, all 

 {hike together as one man : a practice which 

 is at leaft pleafing to look at. 



2. Making. All countries, I find, abound 

 in bad haymakers ; and fome are deflitute of 

 good ones. The country under furvey may 

 be faid to be above par ; and that is as much 

 as can be faid of it. Quantities of hay are 

 annually wafted, and ilill greater quantities 

 unnecefiarily injured, through bad manage- 

 ment. It is feldom tedded fufficiently ; is 

 frequently expofed all night abroad in catch- 

 ing weather; and in fuch weather is too of- 

 ten carried before it be dry. 



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