REAPING. 



Crop dead ripe — Machine— Cutting and Stacking — Game in the 

 Corn— Trifolium Incarnatum — Excellent Crop — Wheat, some 

 cut before it is ripe — Flemish Practice — Wheat-stack — Avoid 

 Kisk of Kain — Norfolk Farmer's mode of Sowing Wheat— Kain on 

 Oats — Barley. 



For this, let the story of one field suffice. Because, 

 presuming the weather to be favourable, the crop 

 good and clear of weeds, there is, upon the whole, 

 much of a muchness in reaping. 



As a great treat, I had taken my little boy before 

 me on the saddle, and had been cantering about the 

 farm for an hour or more, one delicious morning, 

 loitering here by the vetches to show him the lambs 

 that, since he saw them last, had been put in busi- 

 ness on their own account ; here, to note what 

 progress the swedes had made in bulbing ; delayed 

 again a long time at the corner of the paddock by 

 the herdsman, to hear and see how the silky coat of 

 the snow-white heifer Leila was improved of late, and 

 to give my opinion on her chance of winning as 

 partner to the roan Lizzy at the approaching autumn 

 show ; when, at last, we came to an outside field of 

 wheat. It met the eye across the gate one waving 

 sheet of golden red, almost dead ripe. Having been 

 elsewhere occupied, somehow or other I had not seen 



