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to flioot off the flraw, with cloths under- 

 neath to catch the feed. The lafl me- 

 thod is the beft, though not the moil 

 common. It is brought to the thrafli- 

 ing-place upon fledges, drawn by one 

 horfe, the bottom and fides of the fledge 

 being lined with cloth, to catch the feed, 

 which fheds in the removal. The feed 

 fhould likewife be winnowed, or cleaned, 

 in the field ; and being put into facks, 

 is then fit for market. This is often 

 a very profitable crop ; for if the foil 

 be proper for it, forty or fifty bufliels 

 may be expedled upon an acre : there 

 have been inflances when the produce 

 has amounted to eighty bufhels. The 

 price indeed varies, from four fhillings 

 to feven fhillings and fix pence a bufhel, 

 according to the quantity grown, and 

 the kindnefs or unkindnefs of the fea- 

 fon^ it being much fubjed: to blight, 



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