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weather, ii is put up into cocklets provin- 

 cially, " hippies ;" made in different ways ; 

 ibme being let up hollow with the foot and 

 the head of the rake; others in the common 

 \vay with forks. As the hay has advanced 

 tn drynefs, the hippies are increafed in fize. 



When a fair opportunity offers, and the 

 grafs is perfectly dry, the hippies are " fun- 

 dered ;" that is, broken out into beds in the 

 ufual manner; turned , and again got up into 

 cocklets, of fuch fize as the flate of drynefs 

 requires. When fufficiently dry, the hay is 

 made into \vell-fized cocks ; namely, about 

 eight or ten to the load. 



When the crop is intended to be flacked 

 on the piece it grew on, the firft-made part 

 generally (lands in thefe cocks until the 

 whole, or the principal part of the remain- 

 der, be ready for the ftack which, by this 

 means, is never expofed abroad in its firft 

 ftages : a circumftance, however, which is 

 too commonly fuffered by lefs judicious hay- 

 farmers. 



3. Laying tip bay. The mod prevalent 

 practice is to ftack it in the field ; either for 

 the purpofe of foddering it on the ground, 



or 



