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Excerpt from Profitable Farming in the Southern States: The First Book on Farming Written Exclusively for Southern Farmers, Treating the Southern Farm From a Southern Standpoint In order to secure rapid drying and facilitate the process, as well as to improve the quality of the hay - since the quicker it is cured, the better the qual ity - a good hay-tedder is indispensable, of which there are several varieties. It is important that all mowing lands should be clean and clear of everything objectionable to a mixture with. The hay, such as dead stalks, fragments of brush, small sticks, etc., since rakes collect everything from the surface; and the best time to secure this is in the spring before the grass has attained much growth. A good horse hay-fork or loader, for loading hay on the cart, is a very desir able acquisition to the farm implements, and a great saving of labor and time. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.