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time on the fea-coafts being feldom or ever cold The greateft crop 
of this grain which has reached my notice, is that of a field near 
Philac church, in which, as the Rev. Mr. Glover, Redtor of that 
parifh, affured me, he had, in the year 1752, thirty bufhels of 
barley, each bufhel containing three winchefters, on one ftatute- 
acre of land. 
As to wheat, fome of our lands are alfo very fruitful, the moft 
remarkable inftance I know, is that of Thomas Roberts, Tanner, 
of the town of Penzance, who, in the year 1740, had twenty 
bufhels of wheat, (each bufhel three winchefters, or twenty-lour 
gallons) on one ftatutable acre of ground, adjoining to the town ; 
and he had not only plenty, but was equally fortunate in the price, 
for he fold each bufhel for one guinea, fo that deducting one guinea, 
which he paid for the tythe, he made nineteen pounds nineteen 
{hillings clear, of the grain produced by one acre of ground. In 
Cornwall it is the cuftom to bind into fheaves the barley and all 
other grain, as well as the wheat, and for their better fecurity 
afterwards, we make all our corn into arrifh-mows, the fheaves 
being built up into a regular, folid cone, about twelve feet high, 
the beards all turned inwards, and the butt end of the fheaf only ex- 
pofed to the weather ; the whole cone is finifhed by an inverted fheaf 
of reed, or corn, and tied to the upper rows : T his cuftom may be 
partly owing to the greater inconftancy and moifture of our weather 
in Cornwall than elfewhere, and to the ufe of coarfer grains in 
bread, (which therefore require the more fecurity) but whatever the 
caufe is, the confequence juftifies the precaution, and the grain is 
thereby much better preferved: By this means indeed our fields, in 
time of harveft, make a very fingular appearance in the eyes of 
ftrangers, as may be feen at F. f. in the profpetft of Enys, the feat 
of John Enys, Efq; PL. VII. which was drawn in the time of 
harveft ; but in inclement harvefts our corn mu ft be guarded from 
rain and wind better than by the manner of faving the grain in the 
neighbouring counties". Our market- meafure of thofe feeds is irre- 
gular, our common bufhel is reckoned to confift of three winchefters, 
or twenty four-gallons. In the larger farms we generally plough with 
two or more oxen, and two horfes before them, which make but 
a flow progrefs, efpecially as our ploughs are dragged through the 
ground. It is the general cuftom, at the laft tillage of the ground, 
to fow twelve gallons of Ever-grafs °, with ten pounds of clover p , or 
ra For the fame reafon, namely, the uninter- 
rupted progrefs of vegetation by night as well as 
day, corn, in Lapland, ripens fooner than in France. 
Linnaeus Tranf. of the Acad. Sued. vol. i. pag. 22. 
Pontopid. pag. 101. 
"Iam informed they have the fame cuftom in 
fome of the inland parts of Germany, where the 
apprehenfion of rains need not be fo great as in 
Cornwall. 
0 Gramen Loliaceum ; five Lolium Rubritm. 
Ray. 2d. Edit. pag. 249. 
p Trifolium purpureum majus ; or fativum of 
Plot, Oxford, pag, 156. 
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