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the crop was cutting down, it was often more troublesometo the steward, to keep the gleaners in order than to di-rect the reapers ; and while the stocks were on the groundunguarded, which they must necessarily be after the crop iscut, it was impossible to prevent pilfering, which is injuriousboth to the interest of the farmer, and the morals of the glean-er. No person able to handle a sickle to any useful purpose,ought ever to be allowed on any pretence to glean, while anyripe corn remains unreaped in the neighbourhood.
^ Having in this section, and the corresponding subdivisionsof the first part of the chapter on arable land, entered withsufficient detail into many particulars respecting the manage-^ment of crops of grain, it will only be necessary to particularizesuch differences, as^belong to the other grains, in the succeed-ing sections of this part of the chapter.
SECT. II.
OF RYE.
In general but little'rye is grown in the more improved dis-tricts of Scotland , and hardly any particulars respecting it arerecorded in the reports of the best cultivated Scotch counties.Indeed, during eighteen years’ residence in Berwickshire, andfrequent visits to the neighbouring counties of Roxburgh andthe Lothians, the reporter has not had occasion to see thiscrop growing, except in a few instances, and in very smallpatches.
In the Berwickshire fiars for 120 years, from 1689 to 1808both inclusive, the price of rye is not once recorded. For-merly indeed, small quantities of rye used to be cultivated inthat county, especially upon unincloscd lands near villages-