i66 HARVESTING. 



.12. 



HARVESTING. 



THE Harveft Management, at prefent 

 eilabiimed in the Diftrict, has evidently 

 rifen out of the pra(5tice of carrying home 

 harvefl. produce on horfeback. For al- 

 tliough this prad;ice , has in fome degree 

 been laid afide, the operations of Haryeft 

 (that of carrying excepted) are the fame 

 as they were, before the introdud;ion of 

 wheel carriages. 



Every article of corn produce is bound- j 

 even the rakings of barley and oats that 

 have been mown ! But this, in the 

 horfeback hufbandry, was perfe6tly right. 

 Sheaves, or bundles of any fort, are not 

 only much f tter for loading between 

 crooks, but are handier to be pitcht, or 

 rather flung, from the ground or floor; to 

 the top of the rick or m^ow, in the m.anner 

 that "will be defcribed, than loofe corn.' 



I have 



