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and artificial (or that which is sown annually). 

 We will assume that the juices f the two kinds 

 are the same, as such assumption is sufficiently 

 accurate for our purpose. 



The price of hay is dependent on the season, as 

 may be inferred, a bad season raising the price 

 very considerably, at times doubling the ordinary 

 price, a good season having a nearly corresponding 

 effect. One season taken with another, over a 

 term of years, gives as a good average price, for 

 good sound hay, of about £5 a ton. 



I will here remark for the benefit of the reader, 

 as well as to facilitate any farther remarks on the 

 subject of feeding, etc., that hay, being cut into 

 trusses, as is the general, if not universal, custom 

 in England, runs forty trusses to the ton weight, 

 and each truss is reckoned to weigh 5 6 lb., giving 

 thereby the full complement of 2,240 lb. to the 

 ton. 



The hay which is the most suitable for riding- 

 horses, or horses which have to travel fast, is 

 undoubtedly natural hay. This should be as good 

 and sound as can be obtained, and no hay should 

 be used in a gentleman's stable before the close of 

 the year in which it has been cut. Thus, hay 

 which has been cut in June should never be used 

 before the 1st January following. Even then it is 



