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HAY’ 
fe@ly-acquainted with . the vatious operations and proceffes 
which are neceflar be had recourfe to, fuch as thofe of 
fpreading out, taking, tedding, turning, cocking, &c. ; 
where labourers w: 
vided, the proprietor mutt conttantly 
vantage in confequence of fuch operations. being pe 
in an improper manner. bein 
quantity of work that 
It has been ftated, ae in ) Middlefex, as foon as the grafs 
ing cut onrte 
work at three, ei or five o’clock in the morning, and conti- 
nue their work till feven or eight at night, refting an hour or 
two in the middle af the day, while the power of the fun is 
‘the moft confidera’ 
About the fame pas five haymakers confifting ge- 
nerally of a mixture of men and women, including loaders, 
about eight in the morning to fix in the eve 
rik any extra difpatch, for them te receive an OB onal al- 
owan 
It as ee univerfal cuftom, that each h -maker fhould 
co rovided with a fork, and ly a rak 1S OWN 5 
but it occafionally happens when much of the grafs is ready, 
urers are {carce, that the farmer is under the ne- 
ceflity of providing both, Sere more generally the rake 
e execution of the work, evéry part is carried 
on by means. of forks, except tae of clearing the n 
which is es courfe performed by rakes, and the iis tet ; 
oe which is done by hand labour. See Hay-mak- 
es ss the art or operations by which cut grafs 
is converted into the ftate of hay. In the execution of this 
fituation of the ree which it is grown. 
that, in all defcriptions of feafons, {uch grafs crops as are 
be the aT dry and lefs juicy kinds, and: where the expo- 
will require much lefs time in the 
proces o ae ier them into hay, than under'the contrary 
circum 
As hey a an article of “Sag which is not only of great 
eonfequence d the og gs its bein ng one of the prin- 
as the chief fodder of moft 
5 sae fuch cireumftances,. experiments would have 
Bray anda proper attention have been beftowed, in order 
- 
who are unacquainted with thefe are ae 
fullam great — gra 
es, there is much lofs the 
~In that Sh the chief a of the far 
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But it muft - 
. moit proper oe cutting hay, “ 
eft. perfection 
HA :Y. 
fabject, sie «the firft confideration in* the treatment of 
hay i is, the period at which the grafs fhould be cut, and the 
weather moit er for that operation.” And that 
“the. time mott the aioe st of 
aordinary, that the 
oning fhould not have been prnea to the 
management of ag as me MY pee ution of its value, arifing 
rom improper treatment, mutt be equally prejudicial both 
o the grower and confumer of Res, article, as to the grower 
a confumer o 
es, in every di 
diftriéts, the mifchief is comparatively fmall, owing to the 
mildnefs of the winters, the great quantity of rich foggage 
every where to be met with, and the abundance of corn- 
“firaw, ane ae whokefome articles of food, with which 
Jtis obvious — 
agement 0 eir hay is great, a oft beyond Calbstiltion. 
In thefe eval regions, the winters are, for the mott part, 
n length and feverity ; little flraw is produced ; 
>in fucl manner, as to 
at be-ex 
mig rience sabi eee 
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of the Sesbiges is met with, either i imme- ae 
ee frit 
a soe 
