VIII.] AND HUSKING. 



portion must be In favour of my corn^ because 

 these ears being shorter, they will lie closer 

 in the bushel, than the long ears of the Ame- 

 rican Corn : but of this I am not quite sure. 

 Knowing the amount of your crop at once, 

 you know how much you can sell, and are able 

 to determine how much you shall use upon the 

 farm. In addition to this advantage, there is 

 another, equally great ; namely, that of being 

 able to choose your time of selling. For, you 

 do not, as will be presently seen, need to wait the 

 slow operations of the flail ; and, besides, it is 

 not necessary, to sell as you thrash ; for it is 

 very inconvenient to keep the grain by you after 

 it be thrashed ; and, in the case of barley, the 

 straw of which is wanted for fodder, you must 

 thrash by slow degrees as the fodder is wanted ; 

 and may keep lingering along at this work up to 

 the month of May. Whereas, the fodder from 

 the corn has been safely stacked in September, 

 or in the latter end of August ; and there is your 

 corn in the crib ready for the market at the 

 shortest notice, you knovving to a bushel how 

 much you have to sell. 



136. You will as often sell it in the ear as in 

 grain; or, as the Americans call it, and as we 

 must call it, " shelled corn.'' I am now about 

 to speak of the manner of separating the gcains 

 from the cobb. In Plate III, e. represents a 



