OfOXFO%,T>^SHl%E. i5, 
97. Which the fame ingenious/>^r/o;2acleaft qneftions not (and 
therefore wiflies tryals may be made) of the Tithymali^ EfuU , 
and efpecially of Pinguicula and Ros SoVps^ which laft fucks up 
moifture fafter than xk\tSun can exhale it,and is bedewed all over 
at Noon-day^ notwithftanding its power Nor doubts he but 
that Wormwood^ and all other Flants that are very hot, and of 
ftrong fmells, expire as much, if not more than Mint, 
98. There are alfo feveral Arts^ ufed about the in this 
County^ whil'ft in the bladt^ and ftraw^ that belong to this place, 
fuchas eating it off with Shee-p^ if too ranh^^ to make it grov^^ 
ftrong and prevent lodging : whil'ft th^ Corn is young they alfo 
weed it, cutting the thi§lles with a hook ; but rattles they hand- 
weed as foon as in flovper^ and fo they do cockles when they in- 
tend the Corn for feed. If Crows toward Harvefi are any 
thing mifchievous, as they many times are, deftroying the Corn 
in the outer limits of the Fields, they dig a hole narrow at the 
bottom, and broad at the top, in the green fwarth near the Corn^ 
wherein they put dufl^ and cWer^from the Smiths ioxge^ mixt 
with a little Gun-powder^ and in and about the holes ikick feathers 
(^C row 'feathers K they can get them) which they find dhout Bur- 
ford to have good fuccefs. 
99. They cut their here rather a little before, than let 
it ftand till it be over-ripe ; for if it be cut but a little too foon, 
the Jlock will ripen it, and the ro;72 will be beautiful, whereas if 
it ftand too long, much will ftiatter out of the head in reaping, e- 
fpecialiy if the wind blow hard, and that the beft Corn too ; the 
worft only remaining, which will be pale in the hand, an unpar- 
donable fault where the Baker is the Chapman, In reaping If heat 
znd Rye they ufe not they^c/ie, but a fmooth edged hook, laying 
their Corn in fmall hand-fulls all over the Field-, I Oappofe that it 
may the fooner dry, in cafe wet come before they bind it, which 
they do in very fmall J/jeaves^ and very loofc in comparifon of 
fome other Counties: They fiock it rafter-wife, ten fieaves in a 
fiock-, which if fet wide in the but-end, will be very copped and 
Iharp at the top, and will bear out rain beyond hope, or almoft 
credit. 
100. They count their H^r/j/ ripe (as they do their Wheat) 
when it hangs the head and the i^r^w' has loft ks verdure^ which 
they mow with a fithe without a cradle^ never binding but raking 
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