-440 AUGUST. 



the bargain is made for the day, accorclng to wea 

 ther and competition. As the price of labour, in 

 common with other expences of 'farming, must 

 eventually regulate the rent, landlords are blind to 

 their interest in not building cottages : unite this 

 with the baneful custom of not giving leases, 

 which prevents farmers building, and the folly must 

 be seen in its true colours. In order to bring the 

 harvest business together, I have treated this mat- 

 ter here, but the young farmer is to remember that 

 the harvest bargain is usually made long before this 

 time: Whitsun-Tuesday is the common day for it 

 in Suffolk. 



WHEAT HARVEST. 



Now is the time that the farmer gives the first of 

 his attention to that golden crop, WHEAT. Having 

 been a year at least, perhaps a year and a half, or two, 

 years, in gaining it, he is now anxious to get it safe 

 within his barn. Bad weather now greatly injures 

 his profit: he must have many hands at work to 

 make the best use of fine seasons, or he will gain 

 the name of an afternoon farmer \ 



There are two ways of cutting- wheat, reaping 

 and mowing: the first is the common practice, used 

 time immemorial, and by far the better. 



The low reaping called bagging is preferable 1 to 

 mowing; they cut thus near London nearly as low 

 as the scythe. 



Reaping is a work often put out by the acre to 

 the men, apd it may be done as well so as most 



