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TEMPORARY RICK FOR SAVING CORN. 



Barley the seasons before this, that many of our farmers, not being able 



same » to get their bailey dry enough to put into a large rick, had 



set up narrow ricks, containing the produce of an acre or 

 two, each in different parts of the field where it was grown, 

 for the sake of expedition ; and though some straw was put 

 under them, yet the bottom contracted a great degree of 



and the clover dampness, so as to occasion it to smell old, and the clover 



neath. was killed where these ricks had stood. 



Method of ob 

 viatmg these 

 inconvenien- 

 ces. 



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My object was to prevent both these injuries; and it oc- 

 curred to me, that four gate hurdles would answer both 

 purposes, by setting the two outside ones perpendicular, and 

 two middle ones inclining against and supporting each other. 

 Stand for the These hurdles are usually eight feet long; the two heads, in 

 which the four bars are mortised, have pointed heads of 

 about a foot and a half long; the two outside ones are to be 

 forced into the ground nearly their full length, so that the 

 middle brace may rest on the ground to afford some support; 

 and the two middle ones about six inches, to keep them 

 steady. The foot of the second hurdle should be set two 

 feet from the foot of the first, the third three feet from the 

 second, and the fourth two feet from the third, making 

 seven feet, and occupying a space of seven feet by eight, 

 for barley or oats ; but wheat, being longer in the straw, 

 requires the distance to be wider, viz. three feet from the 

 first to the second, three feet from the second to the third, 

 and three feet from the third to the fourth, which will be 

 nine feet by eight. 



It will be proper to put seven or eight small stakes, (a 

 little bigger than a man's thumb), from the second bar of 

 the first hurdle to the second bar of the second hurdle, and 

 from the second bar of the third to the second bar of the 

 fourth, to support the sheaves from the ground, to admit 

 air uittler and prevent injury to the growing clover; or small 

 poles maybe used extending from one outside hurdle to the 

 other. The appearance of the ends of the hurdles will be as 

 in the engraved plan, Plate VI, fig. 1, and section Plate VII, 

 fig. 1, which show where the small stakes are to be placed 

 to prevent the sheaves touching the ground, for there will 

 be but a slight pressure' on them, since the ground ends of 

 the sheaves are to be put against the hurdles A B, and ihe 



ears. 



Structure of 

 the rick. 



