TEMPORARY RICK FOR SAVING CORN. %5J 



Fig. 6, is a plan of a brick divided diagonally, and fig. 7 

 shows how these halves may be disposed to form a trangular 

 drain : the letters show the same parts in each of these two 

 figures: the bottom, D, may be made of tile, or of a brick 

 cut in half in its thickness : the scale annexed to the figure* 

 will show the dimensions of the different drains. 



IV. 



A temporary Rick, to secure Corn in Sheaves in the Fields 

 till quite dry; also Clover, Pease, and Beans: by Wil- 

 liam Jones, Esq. o/Foxdoivn Hill, near Wellington, So* 

 mersetshire** 

 Sir, 



JL HE very unusual quantity of rain, that fell during the Harvesting ia 

 months of August and September last, with scarcely two wet weather, 

 days of dry weather following, in this neighbourhood, put 

 farmers to the necessity of having recourse to various modes 

 of preserving their corn; and, as I understand the Society 

 of Arts has offered a gold medal for the cheapest and best 

 mode of harvesting corn, and also for making hay in wet 

 weather, superior to any hitherto practised, I beg leave to 

 communicate some experiments I made last summer, and 

 the result of them. In the first place, I put some wheat in Small ricks of 

 small round ricks, or wind-rows, made in the common way wl »eat 

 of this county; but afterward recollected, that the uncommon 

 wetness of the ground might render the under part damp. 

 I thought it prudent to examine them, (about ten days after injured by tks 

 they were set up), and found my apprehensions so well dam P ness ° f 

 founded, that 1 had the whole spread abroad ; and have no 

 doubt, that, if they had remained a little longer, the corn 

 would have been materially injured ; not the bottom only, for 

 it had contracted dampness a great way up the ricks, inso- 

 much that I turned my attention to devise some better mode 

 of preserving my barley in case the weather continued so 

 rainy, as it afterward proved. I had observed in some wet 



* Trans, of the Soc. of Arts. vol. XXIX, p. 46. The silver medal 

 was voted to Mr. Jones for Jiis invention. 



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