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wards it is turned, with the same degree of care and attention ; and if, 

 from the number of hands, they are able to turn the whole again, they 

 do so, or at least as much of it as they can, until twelve or one o'clock, 

 at which time they dine. The first thing to be done after dinner is to 

 rake it out into what are called single wind-rows, 1 and the last opera- 

 tion of this day is to put it into grass-cocks." 



" Second day. The business of this day commences with tedding 

 all the grass that was mown the first day after nine o'clock, and all 

 that was mown this day before nine o'clock. Next, the grass-cocks are 

 to be well shaken out into staddles (or separate rows or patches) of 

 five or six yards in diameter. If the crop should be so thin and light 

 as to leave the spaces between the staddles rather large, such spaces 

 must be immediately raked clean, and the raking mixed with the other 

 hay, in order to its all drying of a uniform colour. 



" The next work is to turn the staddles, and, after that, to turn the 

 grass that was tedded in the first part of the morning once or twice in 

 the manner described for the first day. This should all be done before 

 twelve or one o'clock, so that the whole may lie to dry while the work- 

 people are at dinner. 



" After dinner, the first thing to be done is to rake the staddles into 

 double wind-rows ; 2 next, to rake the grass into single wind-rows ; 

 then the double wind-rows are put into bastard-cocks : and, lastly, the 

 single wind-rows are put into grass-cocks. This completes the work of 

 the second day. 



" Third day. The grass mown and not spread on the second day, 

 and also that mown ki the early part of this day, is first to be tedded 

 in the morning ; and then the grass-cocks are to be spread into 

 staddles, as before, and the bastard-cocks into staddles of less extent. 

 These lesser staddles, although last spread, are first turned ; then 

 those which were in grass-cocks ; and next, the grass is turned once 

 or twice before twelve or one o'clock, when the people go to dinner 

 as usual. If the weather has proved sunny and fine, the hay, which 

 was last night in bastard-cocks, will this afternoon be in a proper 

 state to be earned ; 8 but, if the weather should, on the contrary, have 

 been cool and cloudy, no part of it, probably, will be fit to carry. In 

 that case the first thing set about after dinner is to rake that which was 

 in grass-cocks last night into double wind-rows, and then the grass 

 which was this morning spread from the swaths into single wind-rows. 

 After this the hay, which was last night in bastard-cocks, is made up in 

 full-sized cocks, and care taken to rake the hay up clean, and also to 

 put the rakings on the top of each cock. Next, the double wind-rows 

 are put into bastard-cocks, and the single wind-rows into grass-cocks, 

 as on the preceding days. 



1 That is, they all rake in such manner that each person makes a separate row, the rows 

 being three or four feet apart. 



2 In doing which, every two persons rake the hay in opposite directions, or towards each 

 other, and by that means form a row between them of double the size of a single wind-row. 

 These double wind-rows ai - e about six or eight feet distant from each other. 



8 It seldom happens, in dry weather, that it is not ready to be carried on the third day. 



