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over-afliduoufnefs of unikilful volunteers, 

 are all of them objections to the practice. 



Befides, \\-\eftraiu and the pulls are in this 

 cafe little lefs than waited, being ufually burnt 

 in the field {Q? their afhes, which are very few 

 in quantity, and the neat profit arifing from 

 them inconfidcrablc. 



The feafon too is inconvenient : whether 

 jn hay-time or harvcft, every other employ-- 

 ment, however neceifary, bows to the rape- 

 thrafhing. 



It were no wander that inconveniencies 

 f:-.ch as thefe iliould induce fenfible men to 

 devife a more eligible management of this 

 profitable crop. Yet fuch is the infatuation 

 c'ftabliihccl cullcm, that there has not, 

 I believe, been n;i in-iisnce of more than one 

 deviation originating in the Vak during rhc 

 centuries of time v;lv;cli rape may have been 

 Cultivated in it. 



In this indance the rape was HARVESTED 

 AS WHEAT \ reaped, bound, mocked, car- 

 ^-icd into the barn, cured" in ibe ftrtrjv, and 

 tliramed out when markets and 



The 



