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Sect.XVIII. I. I. 



LEAVES AND WOOD. 



507 



of th 



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In the more fouth 



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d over or fcattered for a day, or two, or 



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fvvarth 

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they were left by the fcyth 

 hay -makers follow the mow 



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the more northern counties the 



immediately. 



and fcatter the grafs 



the fucceeding day 



Perhap 



thod between thefe may in 



& 



neral better fuit this climate 

 Herbs coUeded for med 



purpofes, as well as flowers, fhould 



be dried in the fhad 



otherwife they become bleached 



d lofe 



both their colour and their odour, by 



& 



folation, and exh 



lation. Now if the fwarth of cut grafs be only turned 



day for three or fo 



day 



the internal parts of it may be faid to be 



dried in the (hade ; and afterwards if it be fpread over the ground for 

 ly a few hours on a fine day, I fuppofe it would become dry enough 

 ftack, and have loft confiderably lefs of its nutritive quality. Some 



advife a chimney to be left in th 



of 



ftack to prevent th 



hay taking fi 



but there fhould then alfo be culverts und 



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flack to fupply that chimney with air ; which may be made by 

 tincr three or four trenches in the earth, and covering them 



boards or fticks with their ape 



pofed to the wind in all d 



reaions. Perhaps the beft way would be to make the ftack narrow 

 and lono-, and bent into a femicircle or crefcent to en; 



ble them th 



ther, and 



better to refift the winds, inftead of round or fquare, though 

 furface would indeed be afterwards expofed to the we; 

 fome degree injured, by this mode of conftru6lion. 



When the grafs is fpread uniformly over the whole meadow, 

 which is ciiWeduddmg, it will fooncr dry, as fo much larger a fur- 

 face of it is expofed to the wind and fun ; but it fhould certainly be, 

 put into fmall cocks or wind-rows at night, efpecially if the weather 

 be moift ; becaufe it will otherwife receive much dirt and flime from 

 the innumerable worms, which rife out of the ground always in moift 



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warm- nights, and generally when the furface is covered with moift 



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