43O BARLEY HARVEST. [AUG, 



been attended with one half of the advantages 

 which might have flowed from so useful a discovery, 

 for want of combining the use of it with the 

 various connected circumstances of the farm-yard. 

 This business of stacking corn, for instance, must 

 receive an entirely nc'v arrangement in conse- 

 quence of building a threshing-mill. By means of 

 no other additional ex pence than that of an iron 

 rail-way, and placing the stacks on frames resting 

 on block-wheels, two feet diameter, a very consi- 

 derable annual ex pence in labour is saved in cart- 

 ing stacks to the barns, in loss of corn, and in 

 waiting for weather, as well as in the saving of 

 threshing by flails, and all the attendant evils of 

 pilfering and leaving corn in the straw. This is a 

 material object which cannot receive too much 

 attention from both landlord and tenant. 



BAULKY, &c. HARVEST. 



The barley crops should generally have good 

 field room, laving five or six days after mowing : 

 they will improve, and, if a heavy shower of rain 

 comes, it will not diminish the fanner's profit : it 

 will make the grain swell, and measure more pc; 

 acre ; for maltsters reckon much on their profit in 

 such dry 1 -. that the barleys receive no rain 



aft arc mown. But ever observe, that bar- 



5zc. be quite dry when you cart them : 

 corn is always greatly damaged from being carried 

 in clamp or moist : a heat is contracted in the mow, 

 the grain much, discoloured, and the straw spoiled. 

 "While barley lays on the swath, if much rain comes 



it 



