HA R- 
out high, fo as to leaye a rou h ftubble, while in others,. 
spring * it is cult quite clofe to the furface of the land, See 
Reap 
from the fouthern and midland 
as that of the method of cash i 
further, that pro of the northern diftri¢ts are 
more {trongly marked ins thes difcriminating charaéteriftic 
than this. It is probable that nine-tenths of the corn that is 
cut within the kingdom is executed by men. In the coun- 
ties of Surry ts ent, a woman may fometimes be feen 
with a fickle in her hand. -But in Norfolk it is a fight that 
is very rarely to-be met with. Here, however, it is equally 
rare to notice a fickle in the hand of a man, reaping, or pro- 
Lb eg _fhearing, being almoft wholly performed by 
wom And three women and one man conftitute what is 
aed a fet, which, if Rua crop be a middling one, are 
capable of executing an aday. Where the cornisthin, 
one man is fufficient to bind rit! four y women ; but where it 
him, 
againit his Lek & ina hur man- 
i 
ner to which wheat itraw is ufu an! gathered upon 
the thethigor And this is much the beft method, 
though fo mewhat 1 more Pa lekins: the corn being by this 
means bound up ina ti ip and even oasis. the fheaves be- 
zed manne 
e 
epee g I i r day, and 2 r day for a man. 
quently at that time, Stange which in the county of Sorcy 
would coft ros. or 12s., and which, in any other county, 
would not be lefs than from 7s fo 8s. would be in this circ, 
ae ithin a few eee the 
‘price of labour eee greatly advanced, fo that from 15. 3d. 
tos. 6d. for a woman, and from 3s. to 3s. 6d. per 
day for aman, mae probably, at preiets be not far from 
a average price that is paid for harveft labour. It is, 
wever, rh ‘that the faving “of y PO an acre is 
ir from-bein haa bs sean that is derived from the prac- 
tice of emp —2 g wo n the bufinefs of harvelt ; the 
‘number of hands is soutiglisd 5 the poor man’s income is 
increafed ; re leffened ; and the commu- 
nity in ele are benefited ne the Sifution of the habit of 
ow conducive to 
pared with ! 
velt, xe. i from being thought a hardfhip, is, by women 
whe bred to it, confidered as a relaxation 
Boapelie confinement and Jefs agreeable employments.” 
“The great chan nces which has lately taken 
however, rendere 
from 
diftriéts where they were 
ferme had recourfe to, and even in Yorkhhire this is much 
the 
ier hth hate in Natural: Hi ifory, the name of a eee 
noife which it makes in the f 
‘moins, and particularly about a time of harvell. "8 "See 
A 
Harv 
Cic ae 
ed cota , that fort of harveft which 
‘relates to ane rc art ; grats-crops i i Sago bay, 
Gee’ Elax and HarDiglag’ = 2 | 
- It has been fu 
as practifed in the county of 
»as they can fee, and to work mil the night falls. 
HAR 
t Home, the name of a fort of feat that wag 
formerly reiciamose given by farmers to their labourers and 
others, who were employed in the ons and fecuring the 
cro if at the clofe of the bufy pee & p uaeseh ti ae 
cu that does not pro r) 
It is oe occafio nally 
during the period of harveit ; comprehending the operations 
of reaping, mowing or cutting, and fecuring crops of the 
are n ki ae 
t Men, ne name of thofe labourers who are em- 
moft economical method is, 
work by the acre, fo as to perform every 
any relation to it. It is, however, the practice in fome 
places to hire them by the month, keeping them during the 
time in the houfe ; in which way, though it may be very ex- 
enfive, the men are conftantly at hand. 
uggefted, that the vidtualling of harveft-men, — 
Gloucefter, ? Se ne, tek 
cious and proper. Eg ha ag ae 
breakfait is cold mea 
bread and cheefe, with os or eight qu a 
at night, when they return home, they have a hot fuppers 
after which each man has a quart of {trong beer, in © 
alleviate the fatigues of the day which has elapfed, sa to 
fend him to reft in good humour and {pirits, by which he is 
prepared for the tof of the enfuing day.’ It is further fup- 
: ee that more than one advantage arifes from this cuftom. 
«‘ All the work within doors, in the middle of the day, 18 
got rid of ; and the im rk of 
ie field, without a break threugh the prim 
extremely evident, and capable of bees phedy appreciated 
by thofe who from experience knew how to value it. 
It is, however, now moftly the  atens? in 
for the harveft-men to have a dinner of meat in the middle of 
the day, either at home or in the field where ‘they are at 
pe with as much fmall and ftrong beer as they cam 
In the diftri@ noticedabove, the hours of labour are very 
long generally, where difpatch is required, from dawn ly 
du And the quantity of work that is done is com 
above par, that is, from twenty to thirty loads of grain wit 
one fet of men. Ia moft places, the rule is to begin ap nee 
Harvest-Afonth, a term applied to for which 
harveit men are in general hired 4 
Harvest Moon. See Moon 
HARVESTING, the aé& of cutting down and fecuring 
aoe forts of harveft crops, fo that th 
o the time 
of executing it, fome of which, if they were attempted 
introduced into others, v concel 
and in fome quite abfur 
If it were; for eden advifed that, in Sutherland af 
Caithnefs in land, the cultivators of the land. in 
te the Hidcale sil contem Se 
acquainted with ithe vaatter. i 
