12. YORKSHIRE, 14$ 



When the hay has done heating, the ftack 

 5s finally topt up, its roof adjufted and raked, 

 and its top capt with thatch ; the principal 

 part of the roof being left naked. 



In a country where thatching the entire 

 roof is the eftablifhed cuflom, this would ap- 

 pear negligent management. In this coun- 

 iry, to beftow thatch and thatching upon the 

 whole would be deemed a wafteful extrava- 

 gant cuftom. It would be difficult to fay 

 with certainty which is the better practice. 

 Either of them is good, if properly executed. 



Field flacks are fenced with large hurdles, 

 provincially, " flack-bars" refembling 

 the gate-hurdles of fome Diftri&s, and the 

 cattle-hurdles of others. Being placed in a 

 ring, and united together with pins pafling 

 through the heads, they form an arch, and 

 become a fimple and fufficient fence againft 

 every kind of (lock. 



4. Expenditure of bay. There is no re- 

 gular market for hay in the Dillrid. It is 

 ieldom fold but in times of fcarcity. It is 

 VOL. II. L mofliy 



made round % a form between the egg and the turnep is 

 preferable to cither extreme ; but, in my. mind, a for* 

 is the bcft model for a hay-ftack. 



