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HAY¥-MAKING. 
bef hay diftridts in the Seas of Middlefex, on were - 
fome years fince ftated as below 
Hay-making Expences per Acre. 
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Mowing 3s. beer 6d. - - 8.3 
Making and {tacking Lay 
Pulling the flack, and avn the hay desis 
out upon the tha * 
Horfes, harnefs, and ; 2 
Straw for thatch 3s. ki ‘ani cee 6d. o 8° 
Total expence per acre in a the ftaek spheil 9.08 ot “23h. 
At prefent it is more “than double the fum. 
But it is obferved, that « if the hay be put into barns, 
the lait charge of 3s. 6d. will not, of courfe, be incurred ; 
molt of the thi 
fo that the whole expence in this cafe will not exceed 155. 
per acre.’ 
The nature of almoft all forts of — at plainly 
path Fhatatp a Poot the em into ha mf a 1e great object fho ae 
owed with the natural graffes. 
Liter che crops have ee cut down, they fhould undergo 
8 making than with common hay, as too frequent 
ftirring breaks off and difplaces the leaves too much; by © 
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mowing, or the fecond.day after, as the wosther 
is Pi eek or leis favourable, sas ie thet, as the chief virtue 
of this hay refides in the leaf and — lefs on ich 
ditt ich. 
the windrows, it fhould be made up into gi ks, 
are enjoyed the influence of the fun and. air for a day or. 
ott lg thrown into large cocks for carting. But, if be fo 
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"peat eases a fhaken abroad, is de-. rain 
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ird, and part of the fecond, will alfo be faved ; 
are wheat; and for the fee crop © 
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Sasvey of the County of Perth it ip fated, that, - 
in the afternoon to make it be into {mall cocks, fuitable to 
the fate of the hay ly objection to this mhanage- 
e hay on A fuirbace of the fwath is apt to 
hed by de eae the juices exhaled by the fun, 
wae ve our of the hay n This’ difadvantage i is, 
ina hott meafure, only i eae ; becanfe, after the ha 
has lain a day or two in the cocks, the whole becomes A 
much dlike, that the expofed part can {carcely, if at all, be 
diflinguifhed from that which was in the bottom of the fwath, 
its being too moilt, 
way of athatching to the 
shia them down a little with he ade, will render them more 
However, “ Mr. Patterfon, of Caftle-huntley, in 
- He of Gowrie, makes his hay by employing a perfon 
0.fo llow the mowers, who turns the hay over and over till 
If the feafon be favourable e, it is 
of ee county. In the year Ay he had 
of hay from a field of 13 acres, ome ages among 
me field, that 
feafon he received 2/. 135. 4d. ae But it is 
added, that “one grecantedl in this tes. Fe hay-making i is 
abfolutely neceflary, never to make hay up ‘into the fir 
cock, when it is in the leaft degree wet ; otherwife it foon 
becomes mouldy, by fitting fo clofe together, as to exclude 
the at, “whether a farmer thinks proper to 
make up his hay into the firit cocks in cither the twe. 
ways above-mentioned, or in any other, which he may prefer, 
when thefe cocks are to be turned, and two or three | at 
them put into one, according to the condition of the 
the hay, 
he fhould not negleé to put the drieft part of the old cocks 
next to the bottom of the new ones ; and continue to do fo 
expe that im moaiing trae 
= ought to = secon gs by one rope Or the tops in the 
which the moft t winds 
are expected to  Lpaeag at chet “Gabe or by two two tranfverfe 
ropes, which is on as ways ;. and that the ropes ought ai 
fixed at the as to pati a rain into 
tramp-ricks thould alfo be neatly raked down the fideo, 
. clofe te Ae a hei fo that the. 
: may fall from the fides into the earth ; not leaving the 
hay im a'flounce at the fkirts, in a flovenly manner, which 
art of the hay is entirely fpoilt, if it remain long in the 
id. . If tramp-ri 
them always on the crown of the ridge, that the water may 
vifable to 
; run freely off in the furrows. Ps it is more 
carry the hay to the place where the ftack is to be made, 
. than te make Primepriets « in the field, becaufe the fecond 
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