WEST DEVONSHIRE. 171 



and the tenth is put over them, as a cloak 

 or hood ; the whole forming a Ibrt of 

 cone or pyramid. 



This is evidently a bad pradice. The 

 clofe pofture of the flieaves prevents a 

 circulation of air among them ^ the center 

 fheaf being wholly excluded from it. 

 And, in mod cafes, the covering is very 

 imperfedt ; one fheaf, unlefs very, large and 

 the fbraw very long, is not fufficient to 

 fecure the reft from rain water -, but rather 

 ferves to conduct it into the centers of the 

 upright llieaves. 



Shocks of ten (heaves, with eiglit fet up 

 in a double row, and with two inverted as 

 hoods or thatch, are much more fecure and 

 eligible. For the method of fetting up 

 Shocks of this defcription, fee Mid. Econ. 

 Vol. II. page 160. 



III. -ARRISH MOVs^S"— or Field 

 Stacklets. In a late harveft, and in a moifl 

 climature, like that of Weil Devoniliire 

 and Cornwall, efpecially after a wet fum- 

 mer, which feldom fails of filling the butts 

 of corn flieavcs with green fucculerit 



herbage. 



