22 OAT S. 4. 



broom leaves, the wafte is little or no- 

 thing. 



What may feem equally flrange, this bu- 

 finefs is frequently done at harvefl ; the oats 

 being carried immediately from the field, in 

 which they grew, to market ! 



This, however, is lefs extraordinary when 

 we are acquainted with the market, which is 

 always open for new oats in this country: 

 The manufacturing parts of Weft Yorklhire 

 life principally oaten oread ; and new oats 

 are coveted for oatmeal. This accounts for 

 their high price at harveft, here, compared 

 with that which they bear in other places ; 

 and this was probably the inducement which 

 led to the fingular expedient under notice. 



The conveniency of thrafhing them in the 

 feld being by this means difcovered, the 

 practice was eafily transferred from the field 

 to the flack-yard. 



In one inflance, to which T more particu- 

 larly attended, the operation was thus con- 

 dueled. A cloth was fpread upon the ground 

 (fir ft made fmooth) by the fide of the flack 

 of oats (in a flack-yard). A boy threw the 

 ihe uves off the flack on to the cloth. One 



man. 



