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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1799 Excerpt: ...ripe and fit to cut, when in full bloom. Th6 best method of converting it into hay, is to have proper persons who can be trusted, one to follow each two mowers, if the fwarth is not more than one can spread; and let these persons scatter the fwarth well all over the ground, as soon as cut; not barely turn it over, but scatter it well. In this state it should remain the whole day. The next day, as soon as the dew is off, it should be turned again and again; and, before night, made up into grass cocks, with the trenches and drains clean raked out. The third day, if the weather permits, it should be tedded and raked nearer together; for as it withers, it occupies less space. It should then be turned over and over in the day, and rowed in, that is, raked into rows long before evening, made into moderate large anJ round cocks, and the ground raked round them. The fourth day, these cocks are again spread, turned, and if not dry enough, put into still larger cocks, and the following day opened, turned, and carred to the stacks When hay is sufficiently made, it will rattle, that Is to fay, its crifpness will be heard in putting it together. If the crop is thin and the weather hot, it will be fit to carry the third day, and all the process will be shorter. By this mode of hay-making, as the mowers keep on cutting, all parts are going forward at the fame time, and sewer mowers are required in proportion to hay-makers The persons employed should be pioportioned to the quantity of ground. i A good A good mower will cut an acre of grass in a day, if it is not much lodged, two mowers two acres; so that one haymaker is sussicient for two acres the first day, the second day two acres will require two persons, the third day it may require two, but one is sufficient the four...

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