jfo HARVESTING. 



expeditious and eligible enough : but, if 

 the corn be lodged or ravelled, or foul at 

 the bottom, with green fucculent weeds, 

 it is altogether improper : indeed, in the 

 former cafe, it requires expert workmen 

 to make good work. 



A SI THE, in good hands, v/ill m.ake 

 equal or better yvork, and is flill more 

 expeditious. 



To fecure the fcattered corn;, which 

 this ioofe method of cutting leaves upon 

 |:he ground, women or boys colled: and 

 fet up the {heaves ; , and are followed by 

 women with rakes, to draw together the" 

 Ioofe corn : gleaning being feldom 

 permitted, until the fliocks be out of the 

 lields*. 



II. SHOCKS are here formed of ten 

 iheaves, fet up in an extraordinary man- 

 ner. Nine of them are crouded together 

 |n a fquare, of three fl:ieaves every way, 



and 



* Another diftin^uilhina; trait of the Devonshire 

 Husbandry is marked, by the Harvest Holla, — 

 v.hich is here given when the cutting of wheat is finifhed; 

 and not, according to the ordinary cuftom of England, 

 when the laft load of Corn is drawing home. 



