!2SS Cultivation of Arable Land. Slacking of Grain Crops. 



ing by flails, and all the attendant evils of pilfering and leaving corn in the draw. * 

 It is a point of great importance, and mould therefore be particularly at 

 tended to. 



In the reaping and fowing of crops of turnip, cole, and other fimilar forts of 

 fmall feeds great attention, care, and exertion is neceffary to guard againft lolTes that 

 muft othcrwife inevitably take place. No time mould on any account be loft while 

 the weather is fine in getting the work forward, as thefe forts of crops fhould be 

 conveyed to the threfhers as fait as they are reaped, and not placed in houfes or 

 Itacks. In performing the bufinefs of reaping it is neceflary for the labourer to 

 bellow much attention in order to avoid fhedding the feed : and fimilar care 

 is requifite in removing the reaped crop to the threming place. The beft method 

 is probably by the ufe of fmall trucks or carriages moving on low wheels with poles 

 and cloths (trained over them, as they come cheap and are extremely convenient. 

 The turnip or rape is lifted up gently and depofited in them at once fo as to pre 

 vent any lofs ; being afterwards immediately conveyed to the threlhing-floor. In 

 this way the work proceeds in a regular and expeditious manner. 



Stacking of Grain Crops. It is a common practice, when grain is fecured in (tacks, 

 to allow it to be depofited upon a bafis formed of large pieces of timber or other 

 kinds of wood, and filled up in the middle with brum-wood fagots, or any other 

 materials of a fimilar nature, a little (traw litter being thinly placed over the whole* 

 This is, however, a dangerous and flovenly method, that ought never to be at 

 tempted by the correct agricultor. It is a much fafcr, better, and upon the whole 

 a more economical practice, where this mode of preferving corn is in ufe, to have 

 the (tacks built upon frames constructed of wood, (tone, or brick. When confti- 

 tuted of the firft fort of materials, they are ufually raifed upon (tone pillars or 

 fupporters, to the height of from two to two feet and a half, the tops being capt 

 or covered over with flat rcund (tones of confiderable dimensions, fo placed as to 

 prevent the entrance of vermin. But when made with (tone or brick, they are 

 built to the fame height as in the former cafe, in a rather (lanting manner out 

 wards, and covered on the tops with copings of oak planking or flat (tones, which 

 project over the edges feveral inches, and in that way prevent the depredations 

 of rats and mice on the grain, as well as their lodging in the (tacks. In both cafes 

 pieces of timber are placed as a frame in the middle to fupport the grain. 



The firft of thefe forts of corn-ftands is in general the beft, as being more eafily 

 as well as more cheaply constructed, and at the fame time permitting the air to 

 enter and circulate with more freedom underneath, in the bottom of the (tand. 



In refpect to the form of thefe (lands, it varies according to that in which the 



