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it is well to put on hood-iheaves, and there- 

 by guard the grain from too great an ex- 

 pofure to the weather. 



The COMPARATIVE ADVANTAGES of har- 



vefllng barley and oats in fheaf are numerous, 

 The wafle throughout is lefs ; the corn, efpc- 

 cially in gaits, is at once got out of the way 

 of the weather ; the labour of carrying, houfe- 

 ing or flacking is much lefiened j much barn 

 room is favcd ; the labour of thrafhing is 

 lefs ; the ftraw, if the harvefl: prove wet, 

 makes much better fodder ; and, under this 

 circumftance, the corn preferves its colour in 

 iheaf, incomparably better than it does in 

 fvvath. 



The apparent inconveniency of Harvefling 

 corn in fhcaf (I mean that which muft ftrike 

 every one who has not duly confidered the 

 fubjed:, and compared the nature and the 

 quantity of labour feparately requifite tq 

 each of the two methods of Harvefting) is 

 the incrcafe of labour at the outlet. But if 

 the laying out and the binding be done by 

 women and boys, or by men who cannot 

 mow (which is almofl: invariably the cafe) 

 the bufinefs of mowing goes onthe fame pace^ 



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