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well-formed cart, and much more ground will be 

 cleared than the waggons can effect, 



In some counties, it is common to stack all the 

 wheat, if they stack any thing; and they are cer- 

 tainly right in the practice. No rats can get into 

 a stack if it is built on a floor, raised on posts, in 

 the common manner; and, wheat, being in sheaves-, 

 admits the butt ends of the straw all to be laid out- 

 wards, so that the grain is defended from every in- 

 jury from external attack: whereas any corn that 

 is not bound up, is subject to some little damage. 

 Wheat is also found to carry a finer countenance 

 out of a stack than a barn : the admission of the 

 air gives it a brighter colour. In getting a stack 

 into the barn for thrashing, difficulties sometimes 

 arise : a whole one should be got in at once, it 

 being very dangerous to leave a broken stack ex- 

 posed all night. It must also be done in dry wea- 

 ther, which in winter the farmer may wait for in 

 vain some days, and thereby find inconvenience. 

 Some of these evils would be remedied, and at 

 all times a great ex pence saved, if a window were cut 

 in the side or end of the barn, and the stack built 

 against it, near enough to lay some short planks 

 from one to the other, and so do the whole by 

 hand, throwing from the stack at once into the 

 barn. These are points that should be considered 

 at harvest, when the stacks are built. 



Mr. Bannister has the following remark : " As 

 a wet harvest proves so inimical to wheat, it should 

 seem a piece of good husbandry to suffer the crop 



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