256 WOLDS. 2*. 



XIII. HARVESTING. All oats and barley, 

 and much wheat, are mown againft the ftand- 

 ing-corn, bound in Iheaf, and fet up in {looks, 

 at the time of mowing. The Wold farmers 

 follow this practice, as being lefs tedious than 

 that of gaiting, as in the Vale (fee Art. VE- 

 GETABLE-PROCESS), and lefs wafteful than 

 that of harvefting loofe, in the South-of-En- 

 gland manner. 



XIV. FARM-YARD MANAGEMENT. Straw 

 Is all confumed.in open yards; chiefly in 

 double racks fupported by four legs. No 



cattle fattened by the head ; nor any ftraw 



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 (except wheat-ftraw) bound. 



The flraw-yard ftock is chiefly aged oxeri 

 of the fhort-horned breed, bought at Stan- 

 ford-bridge and other fairs in autumn ; and 

 fold in fpring to jobbers or graziers, whd 

 fometimes buy them up in winter, on fpecu- 

 lation, to be delivered in fpring. They leave 

 about twenty fhillings a-head for wintering. 

 But much depends upon judgement in buy- 

 ing them in. 



XV. MARKETS. Malton and Driffield, both 

 of them NAVIGATION-TOWNS, and Burlington., 

 a SEA-PORT, are the principal markets for 



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