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Sect. XVHT. i, i 



LEzWES AND WOOD 



503 



ycung nrr^k 



r. 



miH'h f' 



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hich has ripened aiid (hed.its feed 



3re mitrltlve hay than th 

 And ladly, why the hay fn 



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fo much more 



abl 



to take fire, if ricked 



ft ; becaufe the greater quantity of fugar in the joints of the ftems 



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produces fo violent a fermentation, wh 



diffolve it, that it generates fo much heat as to burft into flame. 

 This miahf beft be prevented, wherechopped draw is defig-ned to be 



oiven to horfes alon- with their hay, by laying alternately in the hay 



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ftack a ftratum of new hay and a ftratum of ftraw, or of clover and 

 ftraw ; whence the rapid fermentation, which occafions combuftion, 

 may be prevented,' and the ftraw may be rendered eafier of digeftion 

 by being impregnated with the fermentative infedion, or yeft, of the 



fermenting hay. 



The art of increafing the quantity of leaves round the roots of 



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fies confifts in eating off the central ftems by flieep, or horfe 



ly in the feal 



as above mentioned 



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new ones 



produced around the firft joint of th 



ftera thus b 



ff. 



d 



fr 



the diftant h 



root- wires of fuch grafles, as prod 



them. In low meadows it is hence doubly profitable to eat down the 

 early grafs till about the middle of May, as in moift fituations there 



but a crop of hay will fucceed; which by this me- 

 will be finer and more copious 5 and at the fame time fome 



is no danger 



thod 



weeks provender of hay will have been faved by the ufe of the early 



o-rafs. 



On land intended for pafture, as for Cheep, many people advlfe to 

 fow three kinds of vegetables, which may in fome meafure fucceed 

 each other in their growth. Mr. Parkinfon fows four buftiels of the 

 feed of rye-grafs, lolium perenne, ten pounds of trefoil feed, trifo- 

 lium pratenfe, and ten of white clover, trifolium repens, on every 



acre ; and adds, that the rye-grafs fhould be eaten early, while the 

 white clover is ftill concealed in the ground, and the trefoil niakes 



only fome I mall appearance. Tha^: vvhen the rye-grafs is eaten down 



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