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and the community at large are benefited by 

 the difFufion of a habit of induftry, and an 

 acquifition of health. How conducive to 

 this arc the employments of hufbandry com- 

 pared with thofe of manufadure ! And the 

 work of Harvefl, fo far from being thought 

 a hardlhip, is, by women who have been bred 

 to it, confidered as a relaxation to domeftic 

 confinement, and lefs agreeable employ- 

 ments. 



Wheat and rye are fet up in fhocks, — pro» 

 vincially " fiooks," — of twelve or ten fheavcs 

 each ; two of which are invariably ufed as 

 *' hood-fheaves" for hooding, capping, or 

 covering the heads of the reft. Twelve 

 Iheaves are termed a ^' ftook i" in which 

 wheat formerly was generally fet up \ but 

 unlefs the ftraw be long, two fheaves are not 

 equal to the fafe covering of ten. It is there- 

 fore now the more general pradlice to fet: 

 them up in " tens ;" by which means they 

 are much more effedtually covered. 



In the fouth of England the covering of 

 Yrheat is never pradtifed : here wheat is ne- 

 ver left a day uncovered. Both pradices are 

 wrong. In fine weather the ears of corn can- 

 C c ^ not; 



