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''^e off til 

 -% night, a. 



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ft 



^y day to pre 



cr 

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^'Hi at night 



e w 



- ater earlj 

 remain oft a 

 '^drying day,, 

 dF thefe prac- 

 to the latter- 

 meadows will 



r, and the wa- 



rn ay 



becor:: 



bcallcv.eda 



'iiy 



uite 



(holt and 



in 



fi-je itiontii 



Tl 



ucb i^P^"" 

 hay. have tb^^ 



thro\^ 



■a 



a^^ain 



1 crop 



Sect. X, 3» 2 



AND WATERING. 



2 



77 



The water is fometimes again ufed, when the hay is carried off: 



but may 



der the lattermath, he think 



holefome to fheep 



But this is particularly fcrviceable, when the water is rendered 



bid by fudden 



Some have taken off two hay- crops in one y 



but this Mr.Wright thinks is imprudent in this climate ; which h 



I fuppofe might be accomplifhed, where the firft growth ' 



eaten in 



April 



d wh 



much 



rbid 



water 



calcareous 



fpring water can be ufed between them 



Mr. Wric^ht further obferves, that the hay on thefe flooded 



f 



dows is little inferior to upland hay, 



but that fome avaricious farmers have permitted 



be cut at its proper 



to 



m 



till it prod 



three tons on an acre. 



d that then it will become 



lono- and coarfe, and little better than flraw 



But that wh 



1 



th 



June^ and has been flooded well with muddy water in th 



It it becomes little inferior to the bed upland hay. 



The hay, 1 fliould fuppofe, which is cut before the grafs is in full 



flower, while the faccharine juice ftill remains 



part at the joints 



f the flower-fleras, muft contain the moft nutritious matter ; which, 

 afterwards abforbed as the flower expands,, and as the feed ripens 

 d forms the meal or flarch of the feed-lobe, and is Ihed upon th> 



cr 



d, or confumed by birds, and the grafs-ftems and th 



become fimply like the flraw of ripened 



Th 



ppear of more impoi 



y one, who attend 



the difference of the pods or hulks of peas, or of kidney-beans, dur- 

 ing the early ftate of the enclofed feeds,, and again after the feeds be- 

 come ripe. The pod or capfule is at firfl: fweet and mucilaginous, fa 

 ■as to fupply an agreeable and nutritive food, the latter of which, and 

 fometimes the former, are eaten at our tables ; afterwards as the feeds. 



which are attached alternately 



h flde of the capfi 



drink 



P 



by their vegetable life after impregnation the faccharine and m 



matters there purpofely depofited for them ; the capfule itfelf 



become s= 



