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detained for any time. By the second, a person to fork 

 up the grain is saved. Some farmers approve of the first 

 method, and some of the latter. 



3. It is well known, that with the exception of the ce- 

 lebrated barns at Inverary, where the Duke of Argyle 

 is obliged, from the unceasing raininess of the climate, 

 not only to preserve, but actually to dry his corn in large 

 buildings erected for that special purpose, that the corn 

 in Scotland is almost universally kept in stacks. 



At Lord Haddington's seat at Tynninghame, the stacks 

 are built on stone-pillars, which is found to be a very 

 advantageous system. It takes nine pillars with capes to 

 a stack. The price of these depends very much on the 

 convenience of getting the stones. There they can be 

 quarried, carted home, wrought, and put up, for about 3 s. 

 each. It will require about twenty feet of timber to make 

 the frame that goes on the pillars ; the price of which also 

 depends on the situation, and whether it can be got by 

 short carriage. From the present high price of timber 

 even there, including every expence, a complete set of 

 nine pillars, and the timber necessary for a stack, cannot 

 cost less than L. 3. The advantages resulting therefrom, 

 when vermin is the object to be kept free from, may be 

 about two bolls in thirty ; but in a wet season, such as 

 the last, (1809,) they are found very useful for drying 

 the corn, when not put into the stack in the best condi- 

 tion, as they allow a free circulation of the air under, 

 and the corn is not injured by imbibing moisture, as it 

 must necessarily do, when set down on the ground in a 

 wet state *. 



Communication from Mr David Buist, overseer at Tyn- 

 ningbame. 



