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PRODUCTION OF 



Sect. XVIII. 



I. 2. 



to 



fs at all feafon 



d when they 



into their fubterranean 



manfions in the morning, they are liable to draw in the ends of thi 

 grafs to flop up the apertures of their^ boles, and by that means pre 

 vent the centipes from following them into their homes, and deftroy 



o 



them. See Zoonomia, Vol. I. Sed:. XVI 



6 



Whence much of 



the new hay becomes injured by the foil, they previouily pufti before 



th 



m 



out of their mines, and by that which adh 



s 



the grafs,. 



which was drawn in to flop the apertures of them, as well as by the 

 flime, which they leave behind them on the new hay, which they 

 pafs through or over. 



On this account hay-cocks fhould be made as high as may be in^ 

 proportion to their bafe, that lefs furface may be in contaft with the 



£> 



nd 



as 



that a greater furface may be expofed 



th 



e air 



for a quicker exhalat 



of 



moift 



bett 



fecuring it from accidental fh 



and for the purpofe of th 



m 



In wet feafons, I fufped, the beft method mufl confift in turnino- 

 over the rows of fwarth every day or every alternate day, or makino- 

 it into fmall cocks, and turning them over in the fame manner, that 

 the rain may not injure the whole of it by pafling perpetually through 

 it, and wafhing away its faccharine and mucilaginous fluids; and 

 alfo that the part next the 2;roui 



fwarth, may 



pafs 



d 



the 



flly, when it can be put 



und, and the central parts of the eock 



fermentation and putrefadion. And 



tall cocks, as the weather becomes 



will not only fooner exhale its 



flu re by the contad of 



a 



mofphere, but a beginning fermentation will (ct at liberty fom 



degree of h 



d thus contribute to dry it by increaling th 



poration ; as the great heat generated in hay-ftacks which have been 



finiflied but one day 



affifls much to dry the whole flack 



111 



moifl feafons, as is feen by the denfe fleam, which arifes from them 



2. Many root-leaves are confumed at our tables either in their 

 flate, as thofe of water-crefs, fifymbrium naflurtium, lettuce, lad 



jrs are previoufly 



boiled 



raw 



uca- 



fativa, muflard, finapis, celery,, apium ; many oth 



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