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GLEANING. 





of land is finished in a day. All is stopped by rain, 

 and the crop much damaged : it is therefore of 

 very great consequence to throw in as many people 

 as possible, men, women, and boys, to make the 

 greatest use of fine weather. 



SOW RAPE. 



The seed, when intended for a crop to reap, 

 should be sown the beginning of this month, or 

 the end of July. The preparation is the same as 

 that for turnips. 



GLEANING. 



The custom of gleaning is universal, and very 

 ancient : in this country, however, the poor have 

 no right to glean, but by the permission of the 

 farmer; but the custom is so old and common, 

 that it is scarcely ever broken through. It much 

 .behoves the farmer, in some places, where it is 

 carried on to excess, to make rules for the gleaners, 

 and not surfer them to be broken under ;my pre- 

 tence whatever. 



The abuse of gleaning, in many places, is 

 great, as deservedly to be ranked among the fai 

 mer's evils : the poor glean among the sheaves, and 

 too often from them, in so notorious a manner, 

 that complaints of it are innumerable. Make it. 

 therefore a law, that no gleaner shall enter a wheat 

 field until it is quite cleared of the crop : this i> 

 the praclice in many places, and great advantage 

 are found from it. But, upon this plan, always d< 

 sist from turning any cattle into the field, until tl 

 poor have gleaned it ; for, if a use is made of keep- 

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