i84 HARVESTED CROPS. 



animating practice is fometimes extended 

 to four thralhers working in the fame barn ; 

 performing a peal, which, though mono- 

 tonous, is not difpleafing to the ear. 



Fodder straw is here bound in very- 

 large, long, two-banded trufles ; no doubt 

 that it m,ay be the more eafily " led" to the 

 place where it is wanted. And where 

 carriages are in ufe, the practice is continued. 



III. . The laft particular of Pra6lice, 

 noticeable under the prefent head, is that of 

 WINNOWING WITH THE NATU- 

 RAL WIND. Farmers of every clafs 

 (fome few excepted) carry their corn into 

 the field, on horfeback, perhaps a quarter 

 of a mile, from the barn, to the fumiiut of 

 fome airy fwell ; where it is winnowed, l^y 

 women ! the miftrefs of the farm, perhaps, 

 being expofed, in the fevereft weather, to 

 the cutting winds of winter, in this flavifh, 

 and truly barbarous employment. The 

 obfolete pracftice of the Northern extremity 

 pfthe Ifland, in which farmers loaded their 

 wives and daughters with dung, to be 

 carried to the fields on their backs, was but 



a little 



