HAY 
it is common to exert every nerve in order to fecure as much 
as poffible, which, without doubt, is beft effected by hav- 
ig all the carts loaded and drawn into the barns, unloadin 
as quickly as poffible on to the mows, being there left 
in the grafs until-a more leifure period offers for {preading 
the hay out; as many of the carts as the time and ftate o 
the res will admit of being: again loaded, and drawn a 
fecond time into the barns on rain falling when ‘Guls fecured 
no danger need be apprehended ; as by merely fhutting the 
doors, the hay is completely preferved againit all forts of 
moifture. Where the weather continues improper for ac 
~ Dufinefs, the carts that are leaded in the barns can be 
veniently emptied upon the — a the latt sciarky 
ri t into order b workmen, who would 
otherwife be, perhaps, tremcs " Befides, fuch barns at 
other periods of the year, afford ee 
truffing the hay for the market or otherwife, which 
could not be executed at cack saan out of doors hire 
the-hay is in flacks. 
It is ftated that the Surinar there contend that the hay 
may be put together earlier even by a day, 
e fafe to have the wor 
experience, that “in the dric/ feafons, barns are a faving of, 
four or five fhillings ‘an acre, and in wet feafons, the ed 
affiftance which they afford in fpeedily fecuring the ha 
has been a difference of ¢au er Sailings 
load, on a {mall number “of loads.” The in vain ex- 
penoe of ftraw likewife renders thefe kinds of buildi 
dtill more defirable. In. many of the more northern it 
— but ae of the hay is — in ftacks in the open 
; seis ore! ane tad $ an s, he can an- 
ra that he has had three barns at a aes “fall of hay: the 
rings were {wept clea nimmnediatély before 
depofiting it ; they were filled completely ; and he had the 
en down as much as srg ro as fides of the 
and fold at as high a price as the beft hay from the ftack- 
yard. _The fme fuch the hay as lay again{t the 
weather | ing, muft however be excepted, on the fhady 
at was without duit, and no way injured in its colour. It 
. was all made without venkixiciy” any rain, and that which 
was the leaft prepared was put into the barns fta 
Bos maers ncn a air is, however, apes tice 
t in the whole of the vicinity of the 
ee where aa the beft hay in the kingdom is — 
met — See earn 
ame applied to 
ployed’ in ad ete up hay into ellis for the market. Work 
oi i this fort is moltly — the price of 
ans ‘of cutti ing and. o 
And it is further fuggeited, on 
the perfon who is en: 
HAY 
which varies confiderably, being in fome pla 2s. in ochier; 
2s. 6d. and occafionally 3s. or more. 
Hay-binding, the art or practice of tying up hey into 
truffes of equal weights. This isa sity * farm work, at 
which the labourer is capable.o uch better = 
than in moft other kinds, ‘ee this allo at a feafon 
other forts of workmen generally get the — as in sie 
winter months. There are, however, not many that turm 
themfelves to this fort of employment, and will fewer who 
are capable of executing it in per manner. Such 
workmen as are expert in the nee . capable of jt 
ng by the appearance of the trufs, 
the wor. 
he pon of if binding hay is i neat, 
mieal a | that it thould —s much m 
convents ‘eal 
ore gen peed 
econo 
cattle. 
HA Av-brining or Salting of, the’ mode of: fprinkling ing 
with falt, in order to make it keep better, and. render 1 
more antes eaten by live ftock... ‘See Satine of Hay. 
Hay-fork, the name af the fmall fork wtil is” uid ia ia 
making hay, and pitching it to the cart, were ftack, &e 
In the firlt of thefe intention’ the tines or prongs need not 
have reat length, but in the latter they “hhould have 
bonfidersbie length, and have a gentle curving eS 
forward, in — that the hay mth be taken up and : 
more perfe@ly b y them. 
Hay, Bur ees ICAGO. 
_ Haydn the name of a tha itrmen. gate ule of 
in cutting hay out of the an or mow. ae — 
conftantly be kept perf ree from as = ‘a 
ffible. Ar ‘improvement is vadierted 20 have been aH 
this imp! having it conftruéted : 
mer 
infin the of 
‘employing the 
the art of sige, hay 4 rs 
forms, fo as 
eeled and rendered perteal fharp. . 
ment, the de tlie cuts diredtly- ownwards, 
that of the ‘oblique direction, as is the cafe in 
old tool. 
Hay, Laying up of, 
ftacks, ‘aiden a 7 ea 
See Stackine of Hays. 
Hay-maker, a urer or any geet 
ployed in work of converting cut 
perfons as gaged in this fort of et fi 
ftantly, in sleds to execute it in a proper manner, > 
