176 HARVESTING. 



VI. In-CARPvYING SHEAF CORN 

 ON HORSEBACK, the Sheaves are packed 

 ill between the crooks, head to tail, with 

 the butts outward, and cai^ried up even 5 

 piling the load confiderably above the 

 horfe's back; The lower part of the load 

 is laid in hy hand, the upper part piled up 

 with a fork ; which being fet firmly under 

 one of the crofs bars of the crooks, a rope^ 

 previoufly thrown over, is pulled down tight 

 and faflened j the fork being a ftay or 

 purchafc to pull againil. 



A firing of horfes being thus laden, a 

 boy travels them foberly to the barn or rick 

 yard ; where they are unloaded, by pufliing 

 back the upper part of the load with the 

 fork, throwing it over the tail of the horfe 

 to the ground, or upon a cloth laid to re- 

 ceive it ; the crooks being cleared, by 

 hand, in a fomewhat immechanical manner. 



The whole firing unloaded, the boy 

 mounts, and, ilanding upright between the 

 crooks, trots or perhaps gallops his horfes 

 back to the field ; frequently, to the no 

 fmalldifmay, or perhaps injury, of peaceful 

 travellers. Afomev/hat uncivilized pradice. 



VII. PITCHING 



