28 CLIMATE, SEASONS, &C. [PART I. 



1817. 



July 21. sweep all round about once every 

 week at least. 



22. Fine hot day. 



23. Fine hot day. Sowed Buck-wheat 

 in a piece of very poor ground. 



24. Fine hot day. Harvest (for grain) 

 nearly over. The main part of the 

 wheat,. &c. is put into Barns, which 

 are very large and commodious. 

 Some they put into small ricks, or 

 stacks, out in the fields, and there 

 they stand, without any thatching, 

 'till they are wanted to be taken in 

 during the winter, and, sometimes 

 they remain out for a whole year. 

 Nothing can prove more clearly 

 than this fact, the great difference 

 between this climate and that of En 

 gland, where, as every body knows, 

 such stacks would be mere heaps 

 of muck by January, if they were 

 not, long and long before that time, 

 carried clean off the farm by the 

 wind. The crop is sometimes thresh 

 ed out in the field by the feet of 

 horses, as in the South of France. 

 It is sometimes carried into the 

 barn's floor, where three or four 



