Description of a temporary Rick for Cor7i, G?c. 19 



ends of about a foot and a half long-, the two outside ones 

 are to be forced into the ground nearly to their full length, 

 so that the middle brace may rest on the ground to afford 

 some support, and the two middle ones about six inches to 

 keep them steady. The foot of the second hurdle should 

 be set two feet from the foot of the first, the third three 

 feet from the second, and the fourth two feet from the 

 third, making seven feet, and occupying a space of seven 

 feet hy eight, for barley or oats ; but wheat being longer in 

 the straw, requires the distance to be wider, viz. three feet 

 from the first to the second, three feet from the second to 

 the third, and three feet from the third to the fourth, which 

 will be nine feet by eight. 



It will be proper to put seven or eight small stakes, (a 

 little bigger than a man's thumb,) from the second bar of 

 the first hurdle to the second bar of the second hurdle, and 

 from the second bar of the third to the second bar of the 

 fourth, to support the sheaves from the ground, to admit 

 air under and prevent injury to the growing clover; or 

 small poles may be used extending from one outside hurdle 

 to the other. The appearance of the ends of the hurdles 

 will be as in the engraved plans, Plate I. fig. 1, and section 

 Plate II. fig. 1, which show where the small stakes are to 

 be placed to prevent the sheaves touching the ground ; for 

 there will be but a slight pressure on them, since the ground 

 ends of the sheaves are to be put against the hurdle AB, 

 and the ears of the corn a little elevated to rest against the 

 hurdles CD, and the ears a little elevated against the centre 

 hurdle CD; so that the ears of the corn will be all within 

 side, and have the benefit of the air between C and D. It is 

 to be observed that, the hurdles CD being but six inches in 

 the ground, and the hurdles AB nearly eighteen inches, 

 the two hjriuer will be a little higher than the two lat- 

 ter; which is necessary for two reasons, one is, that the 

 higher these are, the higher the air is admitted to the mid- 

 dle of the rick, and the more they elevate the tops of the 

 sheaves in the middle, for the ground ends should be 

 lowest to shoot ofiT the rain. But as it will be found that 

 after two or three rows are placed around the tops of the 

 hurdles, (for the ricks should be circular,) that tlie groimd 

 ends of the sheaves being largest, the tops will become 

 nearly level, when it will be necessary to put four sheaves 

 as at CG in the middle horizontally, forming a square, 

 opening in the centre, which will admit air from the top of 

 the middle hurdles CD, through this space to the middle 

 of the rick, as the ears of each sheaf are just to meet only 

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