FEEDING. 
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No particular process is used in the making of hay; 
that from artificial grasses is kept turning in the swathe 
till drj r , and then got together in cocks, when it is fit 
for carrying to the stack. Meadow-hay is made here, 
and 1 believe every where, by the same process; after 
mowing, it is spread over the whole ground, which is 
called tedding ; against night it should be raked into 
win rows, and then into small cocks; next morning 
when the dew is off, the cocks must be again spread, 
and the hay afterwards turned ; when, if it has been 
fine weather, it will be fit to cock and carry; other¬ 
wise the last process must be repeated another da}' - , be¬ 
fore it be carried to the stack. 
Dr. Nash observes, that the grass-land of this county 
is better managed than the ploughed; but that grass 
upland ought not to be too frequently mown, not 
more than once in three years; unless such land be 
frequently top-dressed with dung or compost. The 
produce of hay in this county may be reckoned, from 
one to two tons per acre, and on water-meadows some¬ 
times more. 
SECT. IV.—FEEDING. 
This is principally done in the fields and meadows, 
the staple of whose soil is sufficiently rich to fatten 
the various kinds of sheep and cattle, and their ver¬ 
dure continuing the greater part of the year; when 
grass fails, assistance must be had from hay and tur¬ 
nips, as well as oil-cake. The hay produced from 
some of the uplands of this county, is (as I have been 
informed) of a very nutritive quality, and well adapted. 
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