This being able to endure more Days unmov’d, is also an Advantage upon another Account besides the Weather; for tho’ in other Countries, People are not prohibited using the necessary Labour on _all Days_ for preserving their Hay, even where the certainer Weather makes it less necessary than here, yet ’tis otherwise in _England_; where many a Thousand Load of natural Hay is spoil’d by that Prohibition for want of being open’d; and often, by the Loss of one Day’s Work, the Farmer loses his Charges, and Year’s Rent; which shews, that to make Hay while the Sun shines, is an exotic Proverb against _English_ Laws; whereunto _St. Foin_ being, in regard of Sundays and Holidays, more conformable, ought to be the Hay as proper to _England_ as those Laws are. But to return to our Hay-makers: When the first Cocks have stood one Night, if nothing hinder, let them double, treble, or quadruple the Cocks, according as all Circumstances require, in this manner; _viz._ Spread Two, Three, or more, together, in a fresh Place; and after an Hour or Two turn them, and make that Number up into one Cock; but when the Weather is doubtful, let not the Cocks be thrown or spread, but inlarge them, by shaking several of them into one; and thus hollowing them to let in the Air, continue increasing their Bulk, and diminishing their Number daily, until they be sufficiently dry to be carried to the Rick. This I have found the most secure Way: Tho’ it be something longer in making, there is much less Danger than when a great Quantity of Hay is spread at once; for then a sudden Shower will do more Harm to one Acre of that, than to Twenty Acres in Cock. And the very best Hay I ever knew in _England_, was of _St. Foin_ made without ever spreading, or the Sun’s shining on it. This Way, tho’ it be longer ere finish’d, is done with less Labour than the other. Not only a little Rain, but even a Mist, will turn _Clover Hay_ black; but _St. Foin_ will not with any Weather turn black, until it be almost rotten, its Leaves being thinner than those of _Clover_. If _St. Foin_ be laid up pretty green, it will take no Damage, provided it be set in small round Ricks, with a large Basket drawn up in the Middle of each, to leave a Vent-hole there, thro’ which the superfluous Moisture of the Hay transpires. As soon as its Heating is over, these Ricks ought to be thatch’d; and all _St. Foin_ Ricks, that are made when the Hay is full dry’d in the Cocks, ought to be thatch’d immediately after the making them. That which is laid up most dry’d, will come out of the Rick of a green Colour, that which has much heated in the Rick, will have a brown Colour. The Seed is a Fourth Chance the Owner has to make Profit of his _St. Foin_: But this, if the _Hoeing-Husbandry_ were general, would not be vendible in great Quantities for planting; because an ordinary Crop of an Acre will produce Seed enough to drill an Hundred Acres, which would not want replanting in a long Time.