TIME OF HARVEST. 
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generally finished by the end of that month. In the 
Vale of Evesham, a clay soil, nothing remained out 
the first week in September, except the beans, which 
were generally cut or cutting, and some small scatter¬ 
ings of the blue cone wheat, which is somewhat later 
than the lammas; but in the higher grounds, and 
north-east of the county, the grain was only' about 
half cut, and very little carried. 
The bean harvest, this year, was the middle of Sep¬ 
tember, and finished by the end of that month ; the 
seed-clover was got the end of September, and be¬ 
ginning of October. Hops have almost totally failed,, 
and fruit onfy a small partial bearing. 
July 23, 1807. Wheat reaping near Kidderminster ; 
rye and pease also cut. 
27th. Barley mowing at the same place. 
August 3d. Barley carrying ; a whole field cleared. 
6th. Wheat reaping become very general in the 
Vale of Evesham. 
At Fladbury, barley and pease had been harvested. 
By the middle of August, harvest generally finished 
on the early farms, and in the middle and south of the 
county, and elsewhere, by the end of that month. 
Beans and seed-clover got in, in September ; also the 
hop-picking finished in that month vety generally. 
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