TEMPORARY RICK FOR SAVING CCJRJT. ' g^Q 



ears of the corn a little elevated to rest against the hurdles 

 CD: so that the ears of the corn will be all within side, 

 and have the benefit of the air between C and D. It is to 

 be observed, that the hurdles C D, being but six inches in 

 the ground, and the hurdles A B nearly eighteen inches, 

 the two former will be a little higher than the two latter; 

 which is necessary for two reasons, one is, that the higher 

 these are, the higher the air is admitted to the middle of the 

 j-icki and the more they elevate the tops of the sheaves in 

 the middle, for the ground ends should be lowest to shoot 

 off the rain. But as it will be found* that, after two or 

 three rows are placed around the tops of the hurdles, (for 

 the ricks should be circular), the ground ends of the sheaves 

 being largest, the tops will become nearly level; when it 

 will be necessary to put four sheaves as at G G in the middle 

 horizontally, forming a square, open in the centre, which 

 will admit air from the top of the middle hurdles CD, 

 through this space, to the middle of the rick, as the ears of 

 each sheaf are just to meet only in the middle resting on 

 these four sheaves*; which will give such an elevation to the 

 tops of them, that the ground ends will be sufficiently in- ~ 

 dining downwards to shoot off any rain that may fall. In 

 forming the roof, the sheaves are of course to be put far- 

 ther in every time they are put around, till the roof termi- 

 nates in a point, when two sheaves, with the tops downward 

 spread abroad and bound with a straw band, will secure it 

 from a great deal of rain ; but if the corn is to remain out 

 long, a little reed or thatch may soon be put on each rick. 



Fearing I might not have been sufficiently explicit in de- Model, 

 describing this plan, it has occurred to me, that it would be 

 better to send a model, containing 100 sheaves, made to a 

 scale of an inch to a foot, as to the length of the hurdles, 

 the distance from each other, and the size of the sheaves, 

 also to exemplify every particular of it. 



The weather being so rainy for some days after my barley ^JJanuer ** 

 was cut, with every appearance of more rain, I determined, 



* If the corn should be very damp, and the rick made high, four 

 other sheaves may be put higher up to convey a greater circulation of 

 air, and operate as a bond to connect the sheaves in the middle, so 

 that tbey cannot possibly slide outwards. 



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