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it steady, and then surrounded with mortar, or the plaister, 



S Grafting in the rind is performed by cuting off the stock 

 square; sluing down the bark a small distance, and raising 

 it up, so that the end of the scion may be inserted between 

 it and the wood: The scion is made with a shoulder, cut 

 in about half its thickness, and the other half is sloped 

 off gradually, so as to give it the form of a wedge ; the cut- 

 side beu<g flat and the bark side untouched. This wedge 

 or tongue is inserted under the bark, with the shoulder 

 fited to the stock; the raised bark is then pressed close 

 and bound rouud, and the plainer is applied, as before 

 mentioned. It is usual, in this case, to insert three or four 

 scions in one stock. 



Mr Preston, of Pennsylvania, says he has grafted scions 

 which came from Holland, which were apparently dried, 

 and they grew; but uvat he failed in other instances, where 

 the bark of the scions appeared to have become somewhat 

 roten. He was also successful in grafting scions of the 

 appletree, as late as the twentieth of June, when the leaves 

 ot the trees were full grown. 



See further, INARCHING and INNOCULATING, for the me- 

 thods of performing ihtse operations. 



GRAINHOUSE, OR GRANARY. If the Farmer think 

 proper to build a grainhouse, which is very useful for In- 

 dian corn in particular, the best method of keeping rats and 

 mice out of it is, to set it on blocks, covered with flat 

 stones, large enough to project four or five inches beyond 

 the blocks, on every side. To prevent the blocks from 

 roting at the bottoms, they ought to be set on stones, raised 

 a little above ground. It is a good plan to have a grain- 

 house and carriage or vvagoohouse built together; the upper 

 part lor Indian corn, and other grain, and the lower part for 

 wagons, carts, ploughs, Sec. Sec 



Some Farmers make provision for a place to keep their 

 Indian corn in their barns, which is a pretty good plan. 

 The place for this is a fi jor, raised on a second set of 

 beams, which rest on posts set in the beams, next below 

 the plates of the barn. In the middle of this floor is a 

 hole, through which a tackle is suspended, and the corn is 

 raised in baskets and spread a proper thickness over the 

 floor. Such a floor in an ordinary- sized barn would proba- 

 bly contain three hundred bushels. At the proper season, 

 the corn is thrown down on the barn-floor, and there 

 threshed out with nVUs, or with a threshing-machine, which 

 is better, and is then cleaned and put into bins made for the 

 purpose on one side of the barn floor. 

 See BARN. 



