^86 H A R V E S T - P R O C E S S. 24. 



But this is a natural, or at leaft a ufual, con- 

 fequence of difpatch. A man who reaps, for 

 inftance, from half to three quarters of an acre 

 a day, cannot be expefted to do his worl; fo 

 neatly, to lay his corn fo ftraight, and bind his 

 iheaves fo tightly, as he who only reaps one-third 

 of an acre. 



Were it not for this extraordinary difpatch, 

 I do not fee how the crops of the Diftridt could 

 be harvefled. There are, it is true, a few 

 men, from Suffolk, Cambridgelhire, &c. 

 hired annually at Norwich, and brought intp 

 jt for the harvefl -, but their number is incon- 

 fiderable, compared with the numbers which 

 are employed in other arable countries ; where 

 they pafs from place to place, as the harvefl 

 ripens ; whereas here they are at the end of 

 their journey : an extenfive tradt of arable 

 country on one fide, and the fea on the other. 

 The befl refource which this country has is in 

 its numerous manufacturers, fome few of whon; 

 can, in neceffity, turn their hands to harveft- 

 work. 



One cuftom of this country refpefting har- 

 veft-men is very reprehenfible. Their work is 

 confidered to be merely that of harveftingy 



and. 



