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straw all turned, excepting at the joints ? and is your 
kernel become so hard, that you cannot mash it be- 
tween your thumb and finger ? or is the straw below 
the ear become so dry, that no juice can be forced 
out by twisting it? you may put in the sickle, if the 
weather is fine, and cut, and bind, and shock as you 
go, generally; but if your stalk is very stout, and 
your ear full and heavy, let your gavils lie until the 
after part of the day, (ihunclergusts excepted ;) you 
may then bind and shock, stack, or cart, with safety, 
provided you house your grain where it can have 
free air, or your mows do not become too large; in 
this case, your grain will need more curing. The ad- 
vantages of beginning early upon your harvest, arc 
several. 
1. Your grain will yield more, and whiter flour; 
will waste less by shelling; your harvesting will be 
expedited, so as to prevent the waste of shelling, 
by having your last cuttings become too ripe, as is 
common when the first cuttings become fully ripe, at 
the commencement of harvest. ■ You will have more 
time to attend to your turnip crops, upon your slub- 
b]e lands, before the wheat harvest, or after the 
wheat harvest. You will also be in readiness for 
your wheat harvest, which you may cut and manage, 
as in your rye harvest. If you take the same pre- 
cautions against heat in your gnin, as in your clover, 
by having your mows ventilated underneath, with 
proper openings up through them, for the circulation 
of air, the trouble will be trifling, compared with the 
safety and benefit. When your harvest is housed, 
you have secured the prime object of your farm ; 
bread — this is truly the stalf gf life ; the basis of 
good hu-'bandry, and good living. 
If you discover a rust upon the straw of your rye, 
or wheat, as is common upon lands highly manured 
with rich compost, or yard dung, you may conclude 
vegetation is checked, and that your grain, either be- 
gins, or will soon begin, to shrink. 
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