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97. Which thel^me ingenious^r/o/zatleaftqueftionsnot (and 

 therefore willies tryals may be made) of the Tithyrnali, EfuU , 

 and efpecially of Pinguicula and Ros Solk, which laft fucks up 

 moifture fatter than the Sun can exhale it,and is bedewed all over 

 at Noon-day, notwithstanding its power . Nor doubts he but 

 that Wormwood, and all other Plants that are very hot, and of 

 ftrong fmells, expire as much, if not more than Mint. 



98. There are alfo feveral Arts, ufed about the Corn in this 

 County, whii'ft in the blade, zndjlraw, that belong to this place, 

 fuch as eating it off with Sheep, if too rank., to make it grow 

 ftrong and prevent lodging : whii'ft the Corn is young they alfo 

 weed it, cutting the thislles with a hook ; but rattles they hand- 

 weed as foon as in flower, and fo they do cockles when they in- 

 tend the Corn for feed. If the Crows toward Harveft are any 

 thing mifchievous, as they many times are, deftroying the Corn 

 in the outer limits of the Fields, they dig a hole narrow at the; 

 bottom, and broad at thetop, in the green fwarth near the Corn, 

 wherein they put duff, and cinders from the Smiths forge, mixt 

 with a little Gun-powder, and in and about the holes iWck feathers 

 (Crow -feathers if they can get them) which they find about Bur- 

 ford to have good fuccefs. 



99. They cut their Wheat here rather a little before, than let 

 it ftand till it be over-ripe ; for if it be cut but a little too foon, 

 the fiock. will ripen it, and the Corn will be beautiful, whereas if 

 it ftand too long, much will fhatter out of the head in reaping, e- 

 fpecially if the wind blow hard, and that the beft Corn too ; the 

 worft only remaining, which will be pale in the hand, an unpar- 

 donable fault where the Baker is the Chapman. In reaping Whedt 

 and Rye they ufe not the fide, but a fmooth edged hook., l&ying 

 their Corn in fmall hand-fulls all over the Field; I fuppofe that it 

 may the fooner dry, in cafe wet come before they bind it, which 

 they do in very fmall fieaves, and very loofc in comparifon of 

 fome other Counties : They fiock. it rafter- wife, ten /leaves in a 

 fiock.-, which if fet wide in the but-end, will be very copped and 



fharp at the top, and will bear out rain beyond hope, or almoft 

 credit. 



100. They count their Barly ripe (as they do their Wheat') 

 when it hangs the head and the slraw has loft its verdure, which 

 they mow with zfithe without a cradle, never binding but raking 



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