26 Description of a temporary Rick to secure Corn, ^(^ 



thod to secure grain in wet seasons, or when the dews re- 

 main long on the ground ; that I have attentively examined 

 those ricks, and consider it to be a public benefit that a 

 farmer may have recourse to so cheap and expeditious a 

 method ot securing his corn in difficult seasons; whereby 

 he is able to put it together sooner, and ot course expose 

 it less to the weather. 



Wellington, Oct. 30, 1810. J4MES HeWETT. 



Sir, — Agreeably to your request, I lose no time to 

 give you the information you desire, respecting the tem- 

 porary corn rick, and the size they mav be made. The 

 space between the two outside hurdles contains about sixty 

 sheaves on each side, or one hundred and twenty in the 

 whole, to reach the top of the hurdles. 



Every round of sheaves afterwards takes forty sheaves or 

 upwards, say fiheen rounds high, which makes six hun- 

 dred sheaves, and which will raise the rick about eight feet 

 from the tops of the hurdles. 



It will require about seventy sheaves from the top of the 

 above fifteen rounds, to the top of the conic roof. 



Four sheaves crossing each other, five times in the centre 

 of the rick, will form in the whole twenty, making as 

 follows : 



120 sheaves to the top of the hurdles. 



600 sheaves from the tops of the hurdles to the com- 

 mencement of the roof. 

 72 sheaves in the conical roofs. 

 20 sheaves in the cross or bonds of the rick. 



812 sheaves, or upwards of 81 shocks in each rick, 

 which is more than the average produce of an acre. 



The wheat in this part of the country is reaped near to 

 the ground, and my sheaves this year are about 4i feet 

 lone, for which the distance of 3 feet 2^ inches between 

 the outer hurdles, and 3 feet between the inner hurdles, is 

 calculated. The- distance should be regulated by the letigth 

 of the sheaves of barley and oats. When shorter than four 

 feet, the rick should \ e ol)long instead of round. 



Faggots of wood, pi ced at intervals within the rick, will 

 be found particularly useful, wliere pease, vetches, clover, 

 hay seeds and meadow hay, are put into these ricks, as ihe 

 faggots will promote a greater circulation of air. 



The numlier of the cross sheaves slioulrl be accordingj to 

 the dampness or dryness of the corn, either in every row, 

 or every second or third row. 



Rflf'erence 



