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To: epicure who wrote (53905)	9/1/1999 4:56:00 PM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

Overall, it's my understanding that people worked less 500 years ago than they do now. Certainly during harvest times people worked long hours (as they still do, and as I do the week before a trial), but I was talking about in toto.

To: epicure who wrote (53905)	9/1/1999 4:58:00 PM
From: Ish	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

<<Time off was not a concept in an agrarian society. You worked at a backbreaking pace during the harvest times and hoped to hell you grew enough so you wouldn't starve in the winter when you had "time off". If you think they took Holidays when food needed getting in I think you are wrong. >> X, it's still that way in agrarian areas. The combines hit the cornfields and run all hours harvesting the corn. When the drier bins get full the heads are changed to bean heads and soybeans are harvested until the corn is dry enough to be moved to the storage bins and then it's back to the corn. Same way at planting time. Same way when the hay is ready and 3 days without rain is forecast.