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HAY-M A AIG, 
srafs for hay, the hay will be of a more valuable one Ys 
heat mc more equally in the fkack, confequently not A liable 
ts dam : ‘be of 
ae is ss! ina periodical work, that, ‘ in place of 
being fuffered to remain in the {wath for aes days, as i 
commonly done, women, with forks or rakes, fhould fol low 
the cutters, and fpread it in fuch a manner as to allow the 
{un and air free accefs to the whole. If this operation is 
properly performed, and the weather favourable, the hay 
hat was cut in the morning wih nance? to be put into fall 
cocks by apo where it may remain for two or three 
end of which, if os weather is dry, 
much rain has fallen, aad te eat continued for any con- 
fiderable time in one quarter after the hay has been put into 
ricks: when that is the cafe, one fide will be found d 
while that which is expofed to the wind is perfectly a: : 
the ly confifts in turning the ricks round, which 1s done 
‘reat eafe, by Pere: a or eight people, at equal 
dikencads round ie rick, direGtions to thruft their 
hands as far as they can un ae ee bottom, at the fame time 
gralping a handful of the hay: when the kas are oN 
them = at rae, and move aeenet fn pe Pees Be 
tant tim 
From the prefersing hay of a proper green colour being | 
impor ft 
a point of fome ce, it is neceflary, in order toe 
it, that the ‘rer aie erate to their bein ng ¢ 
fhould be put up in the heat of the day, and remain in ae 
condition till the followin 
relax horfes that are fed upon it, ae its power- 
ful quality, confequently to be of inferior value 
when vec at the —— for fale. 
¥ ciate Marfhall! $ account za “ the 
£ 
cally. ‘ hipples,”? made. in different ayes fome ben ie 
p hollow with the at ane the head of the rake; 
in # e common way, with forks. As oe ay has savaal : 
in drynefs, the LA a are increafed in fi 
“ Where a fair opportunity offers, and ‘the grals is perfecly 
i ; that is, broken out into beds 
e of dryneis requires. 
ciently dry, ‘the hay is oer into well-fized wie same 
seats! — or ten to » the 
re on, the § 
cae a circumftance, howev 
+, too meee fuffered by léfs judicious hay-farmers,”_ 
But it is fuppofed, oS a late Viel tied biter that if 
the fwath of mown grafs be turned over only n the day, 
for three or four fucceflive days, the ae 4 ve oF it will, 
were fpread 
their bafe as poffible, that a fmall furface may come im 
tat with the ground, while a broader top is expofed Fee 
air, and confequently the exhalation of moifture from t 
o hay is promoted; w hile it a at the fame time, pee from 
accidental thowers: And, in*wet weather, ite opinion 
that it is beft to turn the Siete every day, or 
y, or to form them into fimall cocks, with ie view of 
fheltering the whole from injury by long continued rains ; 
and alfo of pene the parts next tbe gee as well as 
in the middle, from gi bes But when the wea- 
ay fhould te cae bei i 
arge 
i. the hay, by increafing the evaporation ‘of the pani pat- 
making hay from the grafs of watered meadows, Mr. 
 Bofwell dire@s, that a confidential perfon follow the moweh» 
ready to ted the grafs Gee diately after we is cut,” 1 e 
which flate it may remain e firft day. Ott 
following morning, fo bE dew is cee 
sd gn 
be it fice 
Sat oa and, the following Gay T) "47 
pi e opened, and the gralsy after being turned, ede 
ftacks in the rards. mutt t be 
It is. evident, that the expences of making hay ag oe 
This to much variation in different fituations corp 
ftances,. in eas as aboirersave more fearce OFF 
ful, and as ¢ ee fine or Se ane ee 
