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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 new arrangement in conse- 

 quence of building a thrashing- mill. By means of 

 no other additional expence 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 expence 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 

 thrashing 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. 



BARLEY, &c. HARVEST. 



The barley crops should generally have good 

 field room, laying five or six days after mowing: 

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

 comes, it will nof diminish the fanner's profit : it 

 will make the grain swell, and measure more per 

 acre: for maltsters reckon much on their prosit, in 

 such dry harvests that the barleys receive no rain 

 alter they are mown. But ever observe, that bar- 

 ley, oats, 8cc.be quite dry when you cart them: 

 corn is always greatly damaged from being carried 

 in damp or moist: a heat is contracted in the 

 mow, the grain much di- coloured, and the straw 

 spoiled. Tins, however is much more the case 



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