, 7 8 O/St.Foi n. Chap. XII. 



Number daily, until they be fufficiently dry to be 

 carried to the Rick. 



This I have found the moft fecure Way : Tho' it 

 be fomething longer in making, there is much lefs Dan- 

 ger than when a great Quantity of Hay is fpread at 

 once j for then a fudden Shower will do more Harm 

 to one Acre of that, than to Twenty Acres in Cock. 



And the very bed Hay I ever knew in England^ was 

 of St. Foin made without ever fpreading, or the Sun's 

 mining on it. This Way, tho' it be longer ere finifh'd, 

 is done with lefs Labour than the other. 



Not only a little Rain, but even a Mift, will turn 

 Clover Hay black-, but St. Foin will not with any 

 Weather turn black, until it be almoft rotten, its- 

 Leaves being thinner than thofe of Clover. 



If St. Foin be laid up pretty green, it will take no 

 Damage, provided it be fet in fmall round Ricks, with 

 a large Bafket drawn up in the Middle of each, to 

 leave a Vent-hole there, thro' which the fuperfluous 

 Moifture of the Hay tranfpires. 



As foon as its Heating is over, thefe Ricks ought to 

 be thatch'd; and all St. Foin Ricks, that are made 

 when the Hay is full dry'd in the Cocks, ought to be 

 thatch'd immediately after tat making them. 



That which is laid up moft.dry'd, will come out of 

 the Rick of a green Colour, that which has much 

 heated in tht Rick, will have a brown Colour. 



The Seed is a Fourth Chance the Owner has to 

 make Profit of his St. Foin: But this, if the Hoeing- 

 Hujbandry were general, would not be vendible in great 

 Quantities for planting; becaufe an ordinary Crop 

 of an Acre will produce Seed enough to drill an 

 Hundred Acres, which would not want replanting in 

 a long Time, 



The other Uie then of this Seed is for Provender-, 

 and it has been afnrm'd by fome, who have made 

 Trials of ir, that Three Bufliels of good St. Foin 



Seed 



