l8o AGRICULTURAL SURVEY 



Section xxviii. 



REPREHENSIBLE PRACTICES. 



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JL HOUGH I have, in this Report, given great 

 commendation to many practices of huibandry, 

 which I think deferve imitation, it is incumbent 

 on me, for the fake of juflice, to take notice of a 

 few things, which, in my opinion, are rep re he n- 

 fible. The harveft, a very important branch of 

 huibandry, is gathered in a very flovenly manner: 

 women and boys are feldom employed in any part 

 of it. A certain number of. men are provided ac- 

 cording to the number of acres of corn ; in the 

 bed parts of the county, ten or twelve acres is the 

 allowance to a man ; in the light parts, fifteen or 

 fixteen acres. The man is boarded extremely 

 well, and his allowance in money is from two gui- 

 neas to fifty (hillings, whether the harveft be long 

 or fhort. The firfl thing the farmer aims at, is to 

 time the beginning of his harveft, fo that his corn 

 may follow in fucceftion, that no interval or paule 

 may take place; as the boarding of his men is at- 

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