80 KALM'S ENGLAND. 



[T. I. p. 438.] The 27th May, 1748. 



Angs-bargningen.* Carrying the meadows, or 

 Haymaking. 



The meadows were now everywhere being mown and 

 carried, which lay on the slopes just outside London. 

 Some of them were already mown, and the hay carried, 

 inbargadt. The whole process was carried out almost 

 in the same way as with us. The grass was mown with the 

 scythe, and left to lie in the order in which the mowers, 

 slatter-karlen, laid it, till it had become somewhat dry 

 on the upper side. After it was raked out, though 

 seldom with rakes, rafsor, but with the here universally 

 used iron-forks, jarn.-gaf9.ar, with a long wooden handle, 

 et langt traskaft, it was so left to dry. After- 

 wards it was turned once or more with the iron-forks, 

 then raked together into rows, i Strang, with ordinary 

 rakes. After that it was cast together with the often- 

 mentioned pitchforks into [T. I. p. 439] large cocks 

 valmar, getting on for 8 feet high. Afterwards it was 

 laid on large waggons, and carried home. It was very 

 rare here to see any women at the work in the meadows, 

 but the carrying of the meadows was performed mostly 

 by men only. It is incredible what an abundance of grass 

 was now found on those meadows, especially on those 

 which lay on the north side of the town. It nearly 



* "Angs-bargningen" and "Angsbruket i Middlesex." 

 In the View of the Agriculture of Middlesex, drawn up for the Board of 

 Agriculture: By John Middleton, 1798. London, 8vo. the distribution of 

 " Meadow and Pasture " in Middlesex is shown by a green colour on the 

 valuable map ai. the beginning. It quite substantiates Aa/»/'jdescription, though 

 50 years had passed away. The subject of " Meadows and Pastures " forms 

 8ec. I., p. 219-225 of " Chap. VIII., GRASS," pp. 219-253. The subject of 

 " Haymaking" or " AngS-b'argningen " is Sec. III., pp. 237-251 ; that 

 of " Sown-Grasses " so exhaustively treated by Kalm forming Sec. II., pp. 

 226-236. [J. L.] 



