“HAY -MAKING. 
This rule 
to be drie 
but to coarfe hay, the produce of wet or marfhy 
itis ftrongly applicable ; for moft of the plants 
in thefe fituations, when they 
unds, 
which grow 
nourifhing of a 
i es not proceed u 
pon 
ound of experiments carefully made 
Finds ) 
In further confirmation of the truth of this opinion, it is * 
flated in the Survey of Perthfhire, that, <‘ as the great ob- 
je in making hay is that of preferving as much of the 
natural fap as poflible, the proper time for cutting is, when 
the crop of grafs has attained its higheft degree of 
the p in fu'l blow, and before their flowers 
when - ; 
begin to fade. If cut too green, the hay fhrivels and lofes © 
much of its bulk; if allowed to ftand till the feeds are ripe, 
the flem becomes hard and wiry, the roots lofe much of their 
natural fap, the aftermath is lefs abundant, and the principal 
part of the hay is in danger of crumbling away into fhort 
ftumps, under the various operations which it muft undergo. 
Better-to be too foon-than too late; efpecially if the crop 
be heavy and in danger of lodging.” 
And with clover, that ‘the beft time for cutting it is, 
svhen the flowers are all fully blown, and the earlieit begi 
to t If allowed to itand longer, the roots of the 
dtalks lofe their leaves, and become hard and fticky ; and the 
. plant is fo much exhaufled, that it takes a long time 
3t fend up new fhoots.”? See Clover. 
feftion; | f 
-rience, is found to be attended with the mott 
= 
time before 
ou ut 
early together, in order to promote a confiderable feehtiby, 
as the only means of imparting a flavour to it, which will 
at andry, and 
much, and jullly, 
admired in the arable farmers of the belt cultivated diltrits, 
: aoe : in 
may, with equal juftice and propriety, be faid to betong, © 
-a very eminent degree, to y-farmers of ere 
for, by them, may very fairly be claimed the merit of havin, 8 
reduced the art of making good hay to.a yitem 5 
which, after having ftood the teft of long arpeeer 
ven in the moft unfavourable weather, the hay, oat 
the Middlefex manner, is {uperior to it ito 
any other method, under fimilar lear age pana 
cefs. 
; - - er A of the co :” But as it-molt juftly deferves 
- Hence it is.clear, that in re cut grafs into hay, the and scarce of. nasa se WifLiGs, e > for thes 
’ ak ot ets ton preat a: f ree of heat in the flack or mow, which the Middlefex farmers make aga si 7 ae be 
“and at the time preferving as great a portion of the -order that the fabje& may be more clearly atest 
-patural juices of the plants, as the procefs is capable of ad- . thal telate the i perma of each day, during 
mitting of without danger, Whe ‘this medium can - whole procefs, from the moment im w ich the — either 
tainéd in the moft exaSt manner, the belt and mof nutritious applies his {cythe, to that ini which the hay is fecure® ©" 
hay will be produced; but it isa point of great difliculty, in the barn or in the ftack.’? ee 
and,.which requires a great deal of care attention in 
order .to. its attainment ; the 
. being that of not-making it in 
thofe.of the contrary deferi 
too hi: degree, as is a 
a fufficient manner, while in 
tion, it is lable to-be made in 
inp the: ameon- 
ugh a aese Sepa 
_ yenjénces which are piten fuftained from the heating of the 
great danger in fine feafons 
“ the- Soon afterwards 
« Figft-day-—All tc io cionia: before mae eae e 
the morning, -is tedded ee fpread)y: and great Ome a”, 
to-fhake it out-of every lump, and to ftrew it a fame’ 
rout poafterwards.+t is tained, Wit Sig 
degree of care and-atteiition; and if, from the! 
, they aré-able to tim the whole 
