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wheat is reaped with the fickle : Tiiis work is either 

 performed by people hired for the harveft, (which 

 generally continues about a month), or by under- 

 takers, who reap, bind, and fet it up in fliocks j 

 for which they receive from 6 s. to 9 s. the acre, ac- 

 cording to the bulk of the crop. And, when this o- 

 peralion is performed, and the wheat carried home, 

 and put into the barns, the flubble is mowed with 

 fcythes, and raked together in heaps, which, when 

 done by the great, or piece, cods about 2s. the acre. 

 The ftubble is carried home to the flack-yard, and is 

 ufed in thatching houfes, and as litter for the cattle. 



The other fpecies of crops are all mowed by the 

 fcythe, either by men employed for the whole har- 

 veft, or at a certain price per acre, which varies 

 from IS. 3 d. to 2 s. Oats and peas are feldom mo- 

 ved out of the fwaths, in good weather, till ready 

 to be carried home. Barley and beans are repeat- 

 edly turned over, before they are in a condition to 

 be built, cither in the barn, or in the ftack-yard ; 

 and when the waggons are employed in carrying 

 home the crop, all hands, that can be fpared, are en- 

 gaged in raking the grounds, which is done with 

 long headed rakes, made for the purpofe. The hay 

 harveft operations, are carried on in the fame man- 

 ner here, as in all other parts of the kingdom. 



Having been favoured with an account, of the 

 particular days on which harveft commenced on a 

 farm near the centre of the county, for the laft feven 

 years, it is here fubjoined. 



