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sufficient quantity may be procured, to raise good crops of 

 turnips, the greatest part of which being eat up on the 

 ground by sheep, insures a succession of good crops of 

 grain, until another crop of turnips is taken. 



2. Grain is sometimes carried in by single-horse, but 

 generally by two-horse carts, to which frames are fixed, 

 in order that the cart may convey a greater quantity of 

 grain at a time. Carts, in this way, will easily carry at once, 

 from ten to twenty stocks, according to the size of the 

 sheaves. In a note will be found the different modes of 

 making and fixing these frames,* which are found highly 

 advantageous. 



It is certain that carts are more easily managed than 

 waggons ; and that by using them, the carrying of corn in 

 harvest goes on with the greatest expedition. The ordi- 

 nary mode of unloading these carts is y for the driver to 

 stand upon the top of his load, and fork the sheaves up to 

 the builder, in which way the sheaves are kept more secure 



There are three different modes of fitting up the carts for harvesting 

 grain or carrying hay. 1. By the first, the limbers or shafts are fixed to- 

 gether by cross spars, and the upper framing mortised into the limbers. 

 2. Another method is to fix the limbers together by cross spars, but the 

 upper framing is fixed together separate from the limbers, and fixed upon, 

 them by screws. This frame will cost from L. 2 to L. 3, according to 

 the quality of materials, and goodness of the workmanship. 3. A frame, 

 called a hay-top, is occasionally fixed upon the common cart, either with 

 small ropes or iron chains. These frames will cost from 15s. toL. 1, 

 10 s. or L. 1, 15 s., according to the materials and quantity of iron-bolts 

 made use of in fixing them together. Both these plans are thought pre- 

 ferable to the first, because the shafts are not so much weakened by so 

 many mortises cut in them, besides the advantage of the uj^er framing 

 being easily taken off, so that the cart can, at any time, be made use of 

 for carrying wood, large stones, &c. Communication from Mr Andrew 

 Gray. 



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