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r * as it ought to be. The effedl of this is, if 

 " our feed be good, all comes up, and half 

 " of it is undergrowth ; this unripe lint is 

 " rotten in the watering, before the reft is 

 " ready, and the whole is fpoiled by it. 



" In ground thus prepared, the weeds are 

 " fo very few, that one hand will clean as 

 " much lint ground of weeds in a day, as 

 " eight can do in our prefent way ; and this 

 " is a confiderable article of expence faved. 



" When his flax is fully ripe, and not tilt 

 <c then, he pulls it ; and if any unripe ftalks 

 appear, he carefully feparates them from 

 " the reft, and waters them by themfelves. 

 " When his lint is pulled, he ties it up in 

 " linall bundles or {heaves, no bigger than 

 " one can grafp about with his two hands, 

 " and ties them loofely with a few ftalks of 

 " itfelf, a little below the feed, and then fets 

 " them up on end, two and two, like ftooks 

 " of corn, in the air and fun, until it be 

 " well dried ; and then ftrips the feed-boll 

 " from it as we do. He then ties two and 

 " two of his fheaves together, the feed end 

 " of the one always to the root-end of the 

 " other. 



" Wherever he can find flat lying ground, 

 D d " under 



