174 HARVESTING. 



turning of Corn Swaths is more generally 

 done with flender poles, cut out of the 

 hedges, fix or eight feet long, about the 

 fize of a fiail handle, and fomewhat crooked : 

 a tool which I have feen ufed in other 

 Diflrid:s. It is peculiarly well adapted to 

 the purpofe of lifting over Swaths ^ and 

 ought to be everywhere in ufe ** 



V. BINDING CORN SWATHS. 

 In general, however, the Harvefting of 

 mown Corn is done in a floveniy manner. 

 The mowing is roughly performed, and the 

 binding: executed in a ftill coarfer manner. 

 Jn harveftino- Oats, which had icood too' 

 long before they were cut, I have i^tw orie 

 fourth, if not one third, of the crop left 

 jfhed upon the ground. In common prac- 

 tice, a very confiderable iliare of the crop 

 is harvefted in the form of rakings ^ ib 

 much being left on the ground, after the 



flieaves 



* I have elfewhere afligned my rcafon for defcending 

 to the Mtnuti^e of the Harvell Management. (See 

 Mid. Econ. V^ol. II. p. 231.) The talk of regiftering 

 the Manual Operations of Hufbandry is irkfome in the 

 extreme. And nothing but a full conviiPaon. of its 

 utility could induce me to perform it. 



