in Sheaves in the Fields till quite dry. 25 



being set up separately, they admitted air between each, 

 from the bottom to the top, and yet adjoined sufficiently 

 to make one continued roof to be thatched together. 



When these six loads were removed from the field, I had 

 room toturn the remaining parcels towards each other, and 

 more towards the middle of the lield, so as to have more 

 air to dry. Bur thev were not sufficiently dry till the 27th, 

 when they were carried to another set of sixteen hurdles 

 ready to take them, and each waggon load laid over the 

 whole ituffth of 16 hurdles, not being so damp as to re- 

 quire being carried up in separate ricks, as the former six 

 loads. Some of these pease have been already thrashed, 

 and prove to be in very good condition, as also the haulm, 

 which is perfectly dry and sweet for cattle. 



One of these ricks of pease, and probably some of the 

 ricks of wheat, will not be taken in till the month of 

 February next : they may therefore be inspected by any 

 meniber of the Society who may visit this neighbourhood. 



I have inclosed a certificate from Mr. VValdron, a gentle- 

 man of this parish. v\ ho farms his own estate; and another 

 certificate from Mr. Hewett, also of this parish, who is 

 esteemed a respectable and intelligent farmer: he rents 9 

 farm from Mr. Ware, brother to Mr. Ware of the house 

 of Ware, Bruce and Co. London. 

 I am, sir. 



Your most obedient setvant, 



Foidown Hill, Oct. SO, 1810. YV. JoNES. 



To C. Taylor, M.D. Sec. 



Certificates. 

 This is to certify, that f have seen some barley on Mr. 

 Jones's farm at Culway, in the parish of Welliiiffton, set 

 upon gate hurdles in the harvest of isog, which"appeared 

 to me to be a very good method to secure grain in wet sea- 

 sons, or when tiie dows remain so long on the ground, that 

 it cannot be got sufficiently dry to put together on oilier 

 ricks. I have also seen a field of barley at Mr. Jones's 

 this year, adjoining to my farm, sown with some of the 

 barley put on those hurdles, which grows well, and is likely 

 to prove a good crop; and I think this invention of puliiic 

 utility. HkiNkv W.aldron. 



This is to certify, that I have seen since this harvest, on 

 Mr. Jones's farm at Foxdown Hill, in the f)arish of Wel- 

 lington, three ricks of wheat, and two ricks of pease, set 

 upon gate hurdles, whicli appears to mc a very tood me- 

 thod 



