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thrown upon them : but this, as has been ob- 

 ferved, is not a general practice j nor is it 

 efteemed a judicious one ; unlefs the foil be 

 very firm and the feafon dry. They are fome- 

 times top-drejfed in winter, with dung or com- 

 poft J but this is a pradice confined to a few 

 individuals. In the fpring of the firft year, 

 they are univerfally /(?;/^./)/V/^^<^; but, extraor- 

 dinary to relate, they are rarely, if ever, rolled 

 either the firft or the fecond fpring, 



VI. First-year's lay ^i. This is gene- 

 rally SHUT UP in the month of April, and 

 either fuffered to ftand for hay ; or is paftured, 

 or roped upon, by the working-horfes. See 



HORSES. 



2. Clover-hay is mown with the fame 

 fithe, and is lifted or turned in the fame man- 

 ner, as BARLEY. The great Angularity re- 

 fpefting the treatment of clover-hay, in Nor- 

 folk, confifts in its being univerfally mada 

 into large cocks, as foon as it is weathered 

 enough to prevent its damaging in thefe 

 cocks ; in which it frequently ftands a week, 

 ©r, perhaps, a fortnight. 



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