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it be otherwife ? By far the greater! part of 

 them are collected at inns in market-towns. 

 The matter of the inn buys the coarfeft hay he 

 can procure, for fear his cuftomers' horfes 

 fhould over-gorge themfelves. One may often 

 hear fome of thefe landlords fay : " 'That hay 

 is too good for our market-horfes," So he 

 buys any rubbifh, provided it is not mouldy. 

 The oftler thrafhes the hay before he gives it 

 to the horfes, and fells the feeds as part of his 

 perquifites. Can the buyer then wonder at 

 having a plentiful crop of twitch and other 

 baneful weeds? 



To procure the hay-feeds clean, the meadow 

 ought, in fummer, to be moil: carefully weeded, 

 The matter, or a man in whom he can confide, 

 fhould watch with a fbricTh eye over the people 

 employed to weed; and the grafs fhould be 

 fuffered to ftand fufficiently long to ripen the 

 feed before mowing, fo as not to heat over 

 much in the ftack or mow. Seme of the feed 

 will of courfe be deftroyed by the heat: but it 

 is the bufmefs of the grower to take care that 

 as little be damaged as poiTible. When u ttack 

 of good hay is opened, the bett judge can 

 hardly diftinguifh the feeds that will grow from 



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