3o8 CULTIVATED GRASSES. 34. 



By cocking It in this manner before it be- 

 comes too crifp, the leaf and the heads are 

 favcd ; but heavy rains fomctimes do it great 

 injury in this ftate. From Highter rains and 

 tranfient Ihowers it is, however, much fafer 

 in thefe large cocks (four, five, or fix of 

 which will generally make a load), than in 

 fwaths ; whofe furfaces being large in propor- 

 tion to their bulk, and their fituation being 

 low, are liable to receive damage from every 

 ihower ; while the furfaces of large cocks are 

 comparatively fmall, and, their fituation be- 

 ing elevated, the wet is licked up by the firil 

 breeze of wind. 



Clover is feldom mown more than once ; 

 except for feed; the fecond crop being ufually 

 eaten-ofF with flore-cattle ; for which the 

 clover-ftubbles are neceiTary receptacles, after 

 the rye-grafs lays are broken up for wheat. 



3. Raising seed-clover is not a pra(flice 

 @f this Diftridt. The principal part of that 

 which is fown in it is raifed in Suffolk, and 

 the Suffolk-fide of Norfolk •, the quantity faved 

 in this part of the county being fmall, com- 

 pared with the quantity fown. SeeMiN. loi, 



VII. The 



