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ting them a certain portion each day by 

 means of hurdles or flakes, with hay at 

 the same time. This is certainly making 

 the most of the grass, and an excellent 

 method of fining and sweetening the fu- 

 ture herbage. 



^ In the month of April, the grass of 

 these meadows should be eaten off as close 

 as possible, but never later ; for if you 

 trespass upon the month of May, the hay- 

 crop will be much impaired; the grass 

 will become more soft and woolly, and 

 have more the appearance and quality of 

 latter-math hay, than hay of the first 

 crop. 



At the beginning of the month of May, 

 the water is again thrown over the mea- 

 dows for a few days, which, as a mere 

 c c wetting 



