wind, and the under part is not dried, but -withered 

 and discoloured ; so that the herbs lose much, both as 

 to quantity and quality, which is an important consi- 

 deration. Soon after the tedding is finished, the hay 

 (or more properly grass) should be turned with care 

 and attention ; and if there are hands enough to turn 

 it again before dinner time, so much the better. 

 The first thing to be done after dinner is to rake it 

 into wind-rows, and the last operation of this day is 

 to put it into grass cocks. 



Second Day — The business of this day begins with 

 tedding all the grass that was mown the first day after 

 nine o'clock ; next, the grass cocks are to be well 

 shaken out into little patches of 5 or 6 yards thameter ; 

 and if the crops should be so thin as to leave the 

 spaces between these plats rather large, such spaces 

 must be immediately raked clean, and the ratings 

 mixed with the other hay, in order to its all drying 

 of the same cokmr. The next business is to turn 

 the plats, and after that, to turn the grass that was 

 tedded in the first part of the morning once or twice 

 in the manner described for the first day. This 

 should all be done before twelve or one o'clock, so 

 that the whole may lie to dry while the labourers are 

 at dinner. After dinner these plats are to be raked 

 into double wind-rows ; next rake the grass into 

 single wind-rows ; then the double wind-rows are to 

 be put into bastard cocks ; and lastly the single wind- 

 rows should lie put into grass cocks. This completes 

 the work of the second day. 



Third Day— The grass mown, and not spread, on 

 the second day, and also that mown in the early part 

 of this day, is first to be tedded in the morning, and 

 then the grass cocks are to be spread into plats as be- 

 fore, and the bastard cocks shaken out in smaller plats. 

 These, though last spread, should be first turned ; 

 then those which were in grass cocks ; and next let 

 the grass be turned once or twice before dinner. If 

 the weather has been very fine and sunny, the hay 



