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their fins of undoubted flovenlinefs : a com- 

 mon hired harveftman, who is not working 

 for himfelf, but for his raafter, will clear 

 with his own fickle, one day with another, 

 from two to three roods of wheat ; in propor- 

 tion to the ftoutnefs of the crop. 



If the flieaves receive much rain in th« 

 jfhock, they are, the firfl fine day, fet out 

 fingly, in order to have the benefit of the fun 

 and air ; which, in the clofe flate in which 

 they are ufually huddled together, it^ is 

 impoffible for them to receive. This is by 

 no means fo tedious an operation as theory may 

 fuggefl ; but is, when the fheaves are very 

 ^vet, an eligible expedient. 



3. An excellent regulation is common, ^^ 

 this Diflrid, refpecling gleaners ; everyi. 

 parilh, or parifhes in general, referving their f 

 fcartered corn for their own parilhioners.yThis 

 is not only equitable ; but refcues the farmers 

 from thofe clouds of gleaners, which, in fome 

 countries, ftroU about from parifh to parilli. 

 But, even with this regulation, the number of 

 gleaners which are fometimes feen collediecj 

 . together, is Ihameful ; generally including a 

 (number of ftrong healthy young women, who 

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