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after cocking it will be ready to (lack. I have 

 found this fort of hay of a more fattening na- 

 ture than the hay made by the other mode, and 

 incomparably better for working horfes. Du- 

 ring the time I lived with my father, our hay 

 was made in the above manner; and I never 

 knew us give either corn, cake, turnips, or cab- 

 bage to feeding cattle in the winter, and we 

 had as fat oxen as any I fee in thefe days 5 

 which is a proof of the mode of harveftinghay 

 being a good one. There are indeed fome in- 

 conveniences attending the method : it will be 

 longeron the ground ; but then it will be in a 

 much fafer ftate when lying in the fwath, than 

 when fpread. Befides, in the Lincolnfhire me- 

 thod, there is a very great faving in the ex- 

 pence. ' 



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