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. HARVESTING: 
It is conceived, by alate writer, that the practice of leav~ 
bble fo long as to render mowing after- 
wards neceflary, is chiefly confined to the more fouthern and 
midland counties ; and further, that though this be unquef- 
tionably a remain of the method of harvetting which was 
introduced by the Romans, it does not feem worthy of being 
imitated at prefent, as being expofed to numerous diffi- nu 
culties that do not apply to the general and ufual mode of 
executing the work. It is well known to thofe converfant 
with the bufinefs, it is {uppofed, that the higher the crop is 
roken off and dropped ; 
and. that whoever will take the trouble of examining a field 
the handful he has reaped gently again the ftanding grain, 
can go on to cut and keep toget i 
ributing | 
- In almoft the whole of the fouthern parts of this country, 
the crops of both oats and. and 
nefy is | 
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hed in the theaf method. 
imagined,. be confidered fo where the harvefis are early, and 
where the climate is extremely mild, favourable, and tteady, 
ods - 
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fhire, appears juftly fenfible of their fuperiority, thou 
ek in the hab i rts phe “et 
is lefs; the ttraw, where the harveit proves wet, makes 
much’ better fodder ; and, under the whole of .the cireum- 
ftances, the grain preferves its colour in the fheaf far better 
than in the fwath. And 
conveniency of e€ in th 
confift in the increafe of labour.at the outfet, it is concluded: 
moft important bufi-- 
nefs of harveft, and that which requires the greateft dif- 
patch, it may be fairly concluded, it is Saipgetods that by 
harvefting: in the fheaf, the labour, the anxiety, and the 
rifk of harveft are leflened, and at the fame time the quan- 
tity, as well asthe value of the produce, is augmented. 
And farther, it is fuggefted by another writer, that if the 
f threfhin 
been alfo aware of the almoft impoffibility of threfhing 
clean by fuch machinery, unlefs where the grain is f{pread 
out evenly upon the board, and-taken in regularly by the 
feeders, he would have ftated this as one principal reafon 
In nt of Yorkthire, and fome other. neigh-- 
bouring diitriéts, it is an ufual cuftom to mow the 
beans,’ and other fimilar kinds ott af 
ing them 
corn, as is th 
that it fhould be bound up into fheaves, . 
it fhould be mown inwards, or towards ing grain, 
that of what is a cradle 
over » or bows made of wi fhoots.on the 
heel, or lower end of the pon corn is. 
to fall eafy and regularly off feythe, ,and‘to reft againft 
the ftanding grain m.an manner.- A. woman and 
S boy generally attend each mower The boy is, for the 
arts. ' bands, but in fome cafes alfo- 
