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only this one writer. But a large Oak tree is not going to vanish in. 

 that way, after having been protected and almost held sacred by the 

 whole community, without some record being left of how it had been 

 disposed of, and the high price it had brought, &c., for certainly there 

 would have been a great competition to secure such a relic of the 

 past. It is more likely that the small sapling was removed when the 

 wall was rebuilt, if ever there was one. Other writers speak of the 

 boughs having been cut and broken off, and the trunk hacked by 

 visitors to get something of it to carry away, and this is just the 

 appearance tlie tree has. There have been a great many branches 

 cut off, and healed over, making the surface of the trunk uneven, and 

 therefore difficult to make the measuring of the circumference of the 

 tree agree even when taken twice by the same person, as half an inch 

 up or down will alter the girth considerably ; and in the trunk near 

 the ground, there is a hole covered over with a large sheet of lead to 

 preserve it from decay and from being further cut and destroyed. I 

 have been up in the tree, and at twenty-one feet from the ground any 

 one could sit with tolerable comfort and security, and when the under 

 boughs were on it would be easy of access, and persons in the tree 

 would not be easily seen. James Craig. 



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EAliVE STING IN THE STACK. 



^HIS invention consists in a means of drying and harvesting hay 

 or other crops in a green or partially green condition, by stack- 

 ing the crop in sections or sub-divisions, so that no large 

 quantity is brought into contact, while a current of air can pass freely 

 under, over, and upon all sides of each individual section. By this 

 system hay may be taken into a stack, even with a heavy crop, by 

 once turning over the swathe, and without the labour of tedding or 

 spreading over the ground, and good hay may be insured in all weather 

 without danger of overheating, or of the hay gefeting mildewed. To 

 effect this, a light iron frame is constructed. 



The standards are made of T irons, bolted together, having cast 

 iron brackets at suitable intervals securely fixed to them, and upon 

 these projecting brackets, angle irons, the width ot the intended 

 stack, are laid. These are notched, at distances of about one foot 

 apart, to receive galvanised iron wires, and upon the open work 

 divisions, so made, the hay is laid. The wires are held in their places 

 by having attached to each end lead knobs, which prevent them from 

 being pulled through the notches by the weight of the hay ; but they 

 oan be released by pushing the knobs upwards, and the wires can then 

 be drawn out of the stack. The four standards terminate in iron 



