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or oftener as the circumstances may require. The 

 heavier the crop and the less drying the weather, the 

 more the tedding that should be given. Sometimes 

 tedding once, and in nearly all instances twice, will 

 be sufficient. The hay should then be raked. It is 

 ready for being raked as soon as the work can be 

 done easily and in an efficient manner. When clo- 

 ver is not dry enough for being raked, the draught 

 on the rake will be unnecessarily heavy, the dumping 

 of the hay will be laborious, and it does not rake as 

 clean as it would if the hay were in a fit condition 

 for being raked. 



The aim should be to have the crop put up in 

 heaps, usually called "cocks," but sometimes called 

 "coils," before the second night arrives after the 

 mowing of the clover; and in order to accomplish 

 this, it may be necessary to work on until the shades 

 of evening are drawing near. 



When there is a reasonable certainty that the 

 weather shall continue dry, it is quite practicable to 

 cure clover in the winrow, but in showery weather 

 to attempt to do so would mean ruin to the clover. 

 In no form does it take injury so quickly from rain 

 as in the winrow, and when rain saturates it, much 

 labor is involved in spreading it out again. Nor 

 is it possible to make hay quite so good in quantity 

 when clover is cured in the winrow, as the surface 

 exposed to the sunshine is much greater than when 

 it is mixed with timothy or some other grass that 

 purpose, nevertheless, to cure it thus, especially when 

 it is mixed with timothy or some other grass that 



