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should be (horn clean, and fast bound. In someplaces they Mow it, the which is not so profitablea way for the Husbandman, but it is the .soonerdone. For when it is Mown it will not be so fastbound, and the Husbandman cannot gather it up soclean, but there will be much lost; it also takethup more room in the Barn than (horn Com doth:Nor will it keep or save it self from Rain or ill wea-ther, when it standeth in the Cover, as the (hornCorn will do.

How to Shear Wheat.

W Heat should be (horn clean,and bound hard jbut for a general Rule, let the Shearertake heed, that the Shearers of all manner of wheat-Corn, cast not up their hands hastily, for then allthe loose Corns, and the Straws that he holdeth notin his hand, flieth over his head, and are lost; andalso it will pull off the Ears, and that more especi-ally of the Corns that are very ripe. In some placesthey will (hear their Corns high, to the intent toMow their stubble, either to Thatch or to burn ; ifthey so do, they have great cause to take good heedof the Shearers: For if the Ears of the Corn crookdown, or bend to the Earth, if the Shearer be notvery wary, and put up the Ear, or he cut the straw,as many Ears as be under his Hook or Sickle, fallon the Earth, and are lost: And when they Mowthe stubble, it is a great hindrance to the profit ofthe Ground. In Somerfet-jhire , about Zelchefler ,or Marteckj, they (hear their Wheat very low, andall the Wheat-straw that they purpose to makeThatch of, they do not Thresh it, but Cutoff the

Ears,