Cultivation of Arable La ml. Cutting and Harvefling Grain Crops. 87 



a proper fituation for the ftack or mow, no time (hould he loft in ca yino- :he 

 crops. In performing the bufinefs, whether carts or waggons are made ufe of, 

 the grain is moftly put upon them by labourers ftationed in the fields for the pur-- 

 pofe ; and after they have been btought home, arc forked up to the Hacks, fcc.by 

 the drivers. 



Where this fort of work is on a large fcale, and there are plenty of teams, fome ad. 

 vife having three carts or waggons in employ ; one loading in the Held, another 

 unloading, and one upon the road, tor all of which five or fix hoiTes may be fuffi-- 

 cknt. In this way, with two men to pitch, an equal number to load and unload, 

 and one to drive the teams, much work may be quickly difpa-tched. Others, 

 however, fu^pofe that one-horfe carts have a great fupeiiority in executing this fort 

 of farm work. 



The wheat-crops are in many d ftricts chiefly prcferved in the barns. This is- 

 particularly the cafe in the midland and fouth-eafterly counties, wher they are 

 large; but in various other parts it is the practice to build this fort of grain, as well 

 as thofe of barley, oats, peas, beans, &c. into ftacks in yards contrived for the- 

 purpofe.* This laft method, when properly performed, is probably the beft and 

 moft convenient, as the grain is not only more fecure from \eimin, but preferved 

 much more free from muftinefs, and at the fame time capable of being got at with 

 more cafe and facility. Befidcs, the vaft expenfe and inconvenience of the build 

 ings are not only avoided, but the danger of cxpofing the corn longer out in the 

 field than would otherwife be necefTary obviated, and the wafte of grain by fhed-- 

 ding, in confequence of fuch drynefs &amp;gt; in loading and carrying, in a- great meafure 

 prevented. f 



Wheat is likewife found to &quot; carry a finer countenance&quot; out of a ftack than: 

 the barn; the free admifiion of air is fuppofed to give it a brighter colour. 



There are however in this way fome inconveniences in getting in the ftacks 

 for being threfhed in the barn, as it is dangerous to leave broken ones out,, or to take 

 them in when the feafon is wet. 



It has been well obferved by Mr. Young that the bufmefs of (tacking corn : 

 &quot; muft receive an entirely new arrangement in the cafe of building a threming 

 mill. By means of no other additional expenfe than that of an iron rail- way, and 

 placing the ftacks on frames refting on block wheels, two feet diameter, a very con- 

 fiderable annual expenfe in labour may, he fays, be faved in carting ftacks to the; 

 barns, in lofs of corn, and in waiting for weather, as well as in the faving 



* Modern Agriculture, vol. II. t Farmer s Magazine, vol. III. 



