134 H A R V E S T - P U O C E S S. 24. 

 24, 



H A R V E S T - P R O C E S S, 



THE WHOLE bufuiefs of harvell is done 

 by harvell-men ; no part of" it, generally fpeak- 

 ing, being done by the acre. 



The price of a harveft-man is thirty-five to 

 forty Ihillings for the harvefl, be it long or 

 ihort, with his full board fo long as harvefl- 

 work continues. 



This is, in any year, a difagreeable circum- 

 flance ; and, in a long harvefl, extremely 

 tedious : in the backward harvefl of 1782 fome 

 farmers boarded their harveft-men feven weeks, 

 two or three of which, perhaps, they lay in a 

 great meafure idle. 



What renders the expence exceflive, is not 

 altogether the number of appetites to be palled, 

 but the extravap-ant manner in which they are, 

 by cuftom, expetted to be gratified. In liquor, 

 however, the Norfolk labourers are lefs vvafle- 

 ful than are the labourers of fome other 

 places. 



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