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The English haystacks have also the advantage that 

 they do not take harm from rain, whether they are touched 

 or not. Against which the Swedish way compels one 

 either to take in the whole stack at once, or runs the 

 risk that bad weather will injure it, after it has once been 

 robbed on the top, not to mention that the structure of 

 the English haystacks in every way obviates the wet, 

 which the Swedish on the other hand seems rather to 

 assist. Moreover, the English farmers also think that 

 the hay thus cut in little billets doux from the stack, 

 skurit litet i Sander fran stacket, smacks much 

 better to the cattle, and is more readily eaten by them ; 

 and retains its fragrant scent longer, than if they were 

 to tear the stack to pieces all at once ; when at least a 

 great if not the greater part of the hay's delightful 

 fragrance would disappear and be lost. 



[T. I. p. 215. J Sain Foin was sown in one or another 

 enclosure ; we saw sometimes whole fields sown with it, 

 and that always in broad-land. No sheep or other animal 

 had pasture on it this year, for which reason it was now 

 standing beautiful enough, grew mostly in clusters, 

 klasar, and was now a couple of inches high. The 

 place where it grew lay towards the morning sun, but 

 a great quanity of mosses had rooted in it in the 

 vacant spaces between this Sain Foin. The soil was 

 the same as everywhere about here. When this has 

 once been sown, it can remain for fifteen, eighteen or 

 twenty years' time, if it is only manured every third year, 

 on the ground where it grows. 



Clover was sown in one and another inclosure, tappa, 

 and that always in broad-cast-land. On the places which 

 seemed to have been sown the past year, it stood very 

 green, thick and beautiful, an inch or two high. On 

 older places it was somewhat thinner, but nevertheless, 

 of the same height. 



