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STACKING HAY.--llay in England is scar cely ever put in barns. II keeps we'll in stacks, nade as they are in the neates, man ner, and carefully matched with straw. No thIng can be more beautiful aud workmanlike than the manner in which they are made up; and for hay, the long stacks are decidedly preferable to a round form, as Is cut down for use, in such case, to more advan,age.- The formation of a stack. which IS often done by women, is work of much skill, which Is the iruII only oi practice; the lhatching of a stack in the best manner requires both art aud experience. and there are men who make It a profession. When well executed, the hay IS for years impervious 10 wet Du- ring the formation of the stack, which, when intended 10 be large, must sometimes wait for several days the progress of hay. making, the most careful farmers hare Iaige ;arpauIin or canvass covering to suspend upon poles over the stack, Ill order 10 protect it from rain. refer 10 these minute circumstances, .o illustrate the extreme carefulness with which many of the operations of husbaudry are here conducted. When the hay IS to be used, whole stack Is never removed 10 the stables a,'once, but IS carefully cut down as q loaf of bread ight be cut, and always done np and bound in tfusseS, intended to be of fiiiy-six pounds each. and in that way carried to be distributed 10 ihe animals. This re. qaires some extra labor; but the farmers find thelr account III 1t.