HAY 
even of the next year, is 
Stared” on she fpot, where thefe ricks ftand ; and befides, 
al the hay will be at hand, i i : 
cleverly finifhed, in cafe of a 
od in - is 
than i is neceflary to keep it from heating, becaufe the furface 
js as good a price for hay weighed.from the tramp-rick in 
Auguft = hg esa as hipenck at Candlemas or March, 
i. €. that h y does decreafe: one-third in weight during that 
n experiment t of Mr. R bert ‘Webtter, at Mains of 
this matter. 
icine on er cent.” d, a fim ala? ex 
the crop of 1795, he Ftd: the decreafe of the weight of 
hav about 16 itones more in every 400 
been in the crop of 1793 3 ‘but fays that the hay was a 
more green in the laft, than in the firft inftance ;' which m 
always effect the deereafe of weight for feveral months sheet 
liay is put into the flack.’ See Ciover, RyEcRass, 
bwin, te &c. 
ticed, ee rouen, or the fecond crop of hay, 
r artificial grafles, ier require lefs 
time in —— than” thofe that are firft cut, a 
re flender, and contain lefs ciliate than the firft 
y, care fhould be taken 
as, without attention 
eriment with 
oo ftones, than it had- 
sae os 
upland meadows 
divide it into {mall parcels, on twenty loads in a flack, there 
hefe ope — than — the 
~ is to felect 
o be ff se.) of hands on h 
ise appear 
fome encl 
a fecond ene in 
of hands on the ftack, and making choi Ly 
the bufinefs, will at all times be found highly beneficial ; but 
more particularly after a wet feafon,’ — which w illy in fome 
eafure, contribute to revive the,co r, and retrieve the 
fell of fuch fodder as may have been "wallie by co#tinual 
rains in the fi art of the haying. 
rather than to begi 
country. 
Hay-rake, a tool of the rake kind, of which 
different forts employed in the making of hay, 
fmall, fhort, well known wooden toothed rake, : 
horfe bpake with long tines, or teeth. is 
5 ease 
fuch as the 
ae the la 
fort ia 
aad ads a n order to a it muft be fre- lately been found sprcigseit -ufeful in producing Epcos e 
quently sale P Ee 
Hay-Firing.—It is noticed, that, froin the great mifchief Tay-fow, a name ‘applied to a particular fort of hye 
frequently aceruing from ftacking hay in a.damp {flate, and rick. Poe 
the injuri ind which perpetually happen, one Hay-/weep, the name of an implemen nt ~~ fr 
fhould 596 that the farmers ‘would be on the watch, and the purpofe of colleéting and conveying g hay to th the ftack, 
i f every precaution to guard againft or other place, in an = and expeditious idly te és 
£8 which*are early fired in the neigh- as it has been put up into rows. It 1s, confequentlys © 
roof of t want o ufe where hay is to be flacked in the field, ping 
a the ‘fatal effects from a great deal of-time and labour, as by fuch @ SecPor * 
a primary caution that the may be got together with much fewer horfes, than minh 
ler be vb taro made ; and that every lump ° grafs waggonsor carts are made ufe of for the purpote- oe oe 
d divided, and have an equal partici- ere are implements of this nature con ed chet 
eager Sakae —- forine:and methods ; but gtee afedio Mr. 
i ce in 1 re, and t 
or from - Ay ae that rain may fall before the bufinets mate 2 invented 
can. be ; or from a fen ae that the hay wiil 
eigh: aa in the tufts, if the whole has been got toge- 
chen before it be fully a that i in hoes thereby have the 
better chance of me As to the firft ar- 
gument, namely faving fome exp a the s of the 
labourer, ij is conceived . fo f > as B cwecty to deferve a 
ferious anfwer ; fince the extra charges on this oc 
can two pieces of irow fixed on the 
and recom fi jdlefex.” 
Middleton, in his “« apie? of the need * of mer is fhewn 
are, perhaps, the moft va alwable. whole 
ig. Hay ; in ‘hich a difplays a ase OE ‘thes 
prs , a8 deferibed in the « Report for the North R 
‘orkfhire 57? 6, the framerwok — the bottoms 'é ty 
ssi on the w in the man fro maken 
one ‘of the ends havin the top vail rifing from it} % 0? tg 
a ene b, by by means of 
a 
