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noc be too much expofed to the fun and 

 dews; if the grain be thin, even a flight 

 fliower IS of great benefit to it. In a rainy 

 feafoii they cannot be covered too clofely. 

 Therefore, in the covering of wheat, as in 

 almoft many other departments of hufl^andry, 

 the farmer ought to be diredted by the fea- 

 fon ; not by the general cuftom of the coun- 

 try he farms in. 



II. SiTHE. In the fouthern and midland 

 provinces, corn is invariably mown outward, 

 and dried iwfwath. Here, it is as invariably 

 mown ctgainjl the fianding corn, and dried in 

 JJjeaf. 



The method of flieafing varies. Upon the 

 Wolds the prevailing method is to bind the 

 flieaves in the ufual banding place, and to 

 fet them up in " ftooks.'* This is termed 

 " binding ;" — a pradice which appears to be 

 growing m the Vale. 



But formerly, the invariable praflicc was, 



and the prevailing praftice ftill is, here, to tie 



•.them near the top, and fet them up mfingle 



/heaves, — provincially, " gaits." — This is 



called " gaiting ;'* which^ if the corn be 



weedy. 



