CHAPTER VIII. 



On the Harvesting of the Ears; on the Husking 

 of them ; on the Mode of heeping them; on 

 the separating of the Grain from the Cobb ; 

 and on the uses of the Husks and the Cobbs. 



127- The harvesting of the ears, or, rather, the 

 gathering of them, is performed when you see 

 the husk turned white on the outside; and, 

 indeed, when you find that the corn has hecome 

 quite hard. The operation is performed thus: 

 you take a cart, go up the interval, have a 

 couple of men, taking each of them one row 

 of plants, stripping off the ears as they go, and 

 tossing them into the cart. When you get 

 to the end of the field, the cart, if not full, 

 comes along another interval, where you do the 

 same; and, at any rate, the cart ought not to 

 turn in the middle of the field; because there 

 is not room enough for it to turn in a breadth 

 of five feet, without crushing some of the plants. 

 Therefore, if your cart be full before you get to 

 the end of the field, you ought to go out to the 

 end, turn upon the head-land, and come down the 

 next or some other interval. 



