COUNTRY LIFE
ALREADY, though the year is late especially among the grasses, the meadow are being shorn. On the most highly expert farm I know the cutte were at work last week, though the grass was not yet a foot high, a the hay, as it used to be called, was piled straight into the silos. Fame assembled from some distance to see the proceedings, and were dul impressed. There is something about this rich green product, that never lose its greenness till it is devoured, which appeals to the ey much more persuasively than the hay that lies till the sun has bleach it out of all its lively colours—and the eye is justified, for this youn green growth is. fuller of food than the older grass at the time that it cut and yet more at the time that it is eaten. The grass came from ley, or temporary pasture ; and it is expected that the process will repeated up to a fourth cutting. The ley (a word not found in t smaller Oxford- dictionary) is now general ; and apart from its othe many virtues, it allows of an earlier harvest and a more frequent. Inc' dentally, would it now be thought affected if the more accurate wo haysel were used in place of harvest in this connexion?. The word is good word, and might worthily be revived. I see that the new wo ensiled is establishing itself.
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