i8o HARVESTED CROPS, 



to require particular notice. There are, 

 however, two or three pecuharities of 

 Managenient which require to be regiftered. 



I. HOUSING STACKS BY HAND 

 is not uncommon. Under the horfe-and- 

 crook fyftem, it is perftCtly cUgible ; and, 

 where carriages are in ufe, it is compara- 

 tively more expeditious, than an Eafl- 

 countryman would readily allow. In an 

 inflance noticed, five men houfed about 

 eight loads of wheat, in {even or eight 

 hours. Two men, upon the flack, bound 

 the {heaves, in bundles of ten each, with 

 ropes, and let them down, upon the flioul- 

 ders of other two men, who carried thf m to 

 the barn, from thirty to forty yards diflance, 

 and handed them up to the fifth man, on 

 the moiv. This piece of a ftack would 

 have broken deep, into the day's work of a 

 team ; and, in a bufy time would have coft 

 twice the money the wages of thefe five 

 men amounted to ; which, at a fhilling a 

 day, was not more t)ian three or four fliil- 

 iings. 



11. The 



