igO AGRICULTURAL SURVEY 



the cafe in other counties. There is not gleaning enough for 

 all the women and children, the latter would be alone fuffU 

 cient — but this might be regulated without any prejudice to 

 the women, who were more profitably employed, provided 

 there was a proper difpofition in the country to that effeft. 



As to the focial meetings, I fhould think better of them, if 

 the wife and children participated in them ; but, as this now 

 {lands, we meet with nothing but drunken men. filling the 

 public houfes for fome days after the harveft is ended. 



Rcfpefting the barley, if Norfolk men fhould ftill objett to 

 its being cocked, I would advife them to gather it, at leaft, 

 with rakes inftead of fhack-forks, for the latter often leaves 

 two bufhels per acre upon the ground, and the difference in 

 the expence is only 2d. per acre. 



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