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flieaves are removed, that it requires to be 

 raked both ways ; namely, to be gone over 

 twice ; the fecond raking being at right 

 angles to the firil. 



In binding, the Swaths are rolled into 

 •* fkoves," with ihort rakes ; the band 

 ftretched over the bundle ; the ends, one 

 in each hand, forced beneath it ; the bundle 

 lifted up, turned over, and the twifted ends 

 of the band tucked in. 



If the crop be ihort, " reed" is ufed for 

 binding it : it was with the utmoft diffi- 

 culty I got a field of barley, which, through 

 the thinnefs of the foil and the drynefs of 

 the fummer, was too fliort for bands, and 

 which was clean, and in the highefl order 

 for flacking, — carried to the flack in wag- 

 gonsy^ without the expence and trouble of 

 tying it up in bundles. 



In a climate fo uncertain as that of Weil: 

 Devonfliire ; and mofl efpecially in a late 

 harvefh -, fetting up mown corn in fmglets, 

 agreeably to the pradlice of the North of 

 England, would, I am convinced, be the 

 moft eligible practice. For the method of 

 fetting up corn in this manner, fee York. 

 EcoN, Vol. I, page 390, 



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