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PINK AND SCARLET 



PLATE XVI (continued). 



Fig. 3. Beans. 



unavoidable, or hounds are running fast, every care 

 should be taken to ride down the furrows or the 

 headlands (/. e. the sides of the fields). 



While writing of furrows it would be well to say, 

 that some farmers consider that to ride down a 

 water furrow does more harm than to ride over the 

 crop, because the earth turned up by the horses' 

 feet is likely to cause many small dams in the 

 furrow. Water furrows are easily distinguishable 

 from the ordinary furrow by their drain-like 

 appearance. 



There are many men, farmers among them, who 

 maintain that wheat, barley, etc. do not suffer from 

 being moderately ridden over, and it certainly is 

 impossible to see when the crop is up in summer 



