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hay in large rows, eafily to be cocked ; 

 dragged to the Hack ; or loaded ; as occa- 

 fion may require. This expedient, how- 

 ever, is far from being in general practice. 



When the ground near the ftack is clea'r- 

 ed, and the flack has rifen too high to be 

 Conveniently forked on to from the ground, 

 the ourfkirts of the field are drawn together 

 in carriages. 



In the befl practice of the Diflrict, the 

 flack, if not very large (which field-flacks 

 feldom are), is never begun upon until a fuf- 

 ficiency of hay be dry to get it above the eaves 

 the firfl day. If the whole be ready, the 

 middle of the flack is rounded up, and the 

 remainder fet in tall " pikes" by the fide of 

 it, ready to be laid on the firfl fine day after 

 the ftem be fufficiently fettled. This appears 

 to me to be bringing the bufitiefs of laying 

 up hay as near perfection as the nature of it 

 will admit. 



Field- flacks are, I believe in variably, made 

 round. The favourite form at prefent feems 1 

 to be that of &n-egg ; a form, perhaps, of all 

 bthers the moil beautiful, but by no means 

 the nioft convenient *. 



* Li CLEVELAND the oppofite extreme prevails.' 

 The tumrf is theie the sirch^type, If ha v flacks be 



inadp 



