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cellent method to (lack it in the field where it 

 grew; for by fo doing you will probably fe- 

 cure as much in one day, as you would have 

 bee>n able to carry home in four ; or, if the dif- 

 tance be confiderable, perhaps in a week. And 

 if rain mould come the next day, or foon after, 

 and continue, this manner of proceeding may 

 be of very great convenience and advantage; 

 it may make in the corn the difference of good, 

 and of good for nothing', but to a certainty that 

 of good and indifferent. 



It may not perhaps be unneceflary to fay 

 how a flack mould be conftructed, fo as to be 

 liable to the lead inconvenience. Begin to 

 make the middle of the ftack firft, fo that, when 

 it is taken in, the middle muft be fulieft: the 

 outfide fheaves will then ac~t as thatch; and 

 even if the Hack were not thatched, no com- 

 mon rain of Ihort duration could injure one fo 

 made. But fuppofing it tolerably, or what the 

 thatcher would call well thatched, it is poflible 

 rain may penetrate; but if it did, the corn 

 would receive little injury, as the moifture, from 

 the conftruclion here laid down, would entirely 

 ooze out: nor can rats, mire, or many other 

 vermin which frequently caufe havock amongft 

 corn do fo much damage in a flack fo made. 



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