398 HARVESTING. 24. 



Yorkfliire Wolds arc not only a corn country ; 

 but the farms are many of them of extra- 

 ordinary lize : neverthelefs, it is the invari- 

 able praftice of the Diftridl to harvefl barley 

 and cats in flieaf. One man, a few years ago, 

 grew between three and four thoufand quar- 

 ters of oats and barley ; every bufhel of 

 which was harvcfled in Iheaf. 



I am too well aware of the difficulty of 

 changing the cuftom of a country, to recom- 

 mend to any man who farms in a fouthern 

 Diftrid:, to attempt to harvefl: all his corn in 

 fheaf, without regard to the weather or the 

 {late of thefcafon. But I will not hefitatc to 

 recommend to every man who has barley or 

 oats to cut in a wet feafon, or in a late har- 

 vefl;, to harvefl: them in fheaf. 



In Surrey, Kent, and other counties, where 

 mown corn is laid fl:raight in fwath, there 

 would be no difficulty in harvefl:ing in Iheaf. 

 The corn might be mown outward in the 

 ufual manner, and fheaved out of fwath ; 

 which is, perhaps, upon the whole, a better 

 method of Ihcafing than th.at which has been 

 defcribed as the pradtice of this Difl:ri»ft. 



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