ggO TEMPORARY RICK FOR SAVING CORN. 



on having a few hours intermission of rain, to get the middle 

 of the field, which was a little more dry than the rest, and 

 to put it in small ricks, containing more than the produce 

 of an acre, on these hurdles in the same field ; it was in such 

 a damp state as to be totally spoiled in the common rick, 

 but was taken from these ricks into a barn in the month of 

 January last, perfectly dry, the straw much better than 

 could have been expected, the grain good, having been pro- 

 ved to grow well ; for having some doubt on account of being 

 put together so damp, I had it first tried by putting a few 

 grains in a cloth into the earth, and have since sown it, and 

 no other this spring, and I never had a better prospect of a 

 *hile some good crop. The remaining part of the barley, that was left 

 other was on t ne ground, was not taken in till ten days afterwards, 

 the grain much grown, a great deal wasted by frequently 

 turning, and the straw spoiled. 



I flatter myself it will be admitted, that in wet seasons, 

 or when harvest is so late, that, as the days decrease, the dews 

 increase, and of course remain so long that there are but few 

 hours in a day for drying, even if there should be no rain; 

 this method will afford perfect security to corn that is cut 

 dry, and put up in this manner immediately from the sithe 

 or sickle: because, if there should be grass in it, the ground 

 end of every sheaf will be withoutside, exposed to the sun 

 and air to dry; and as for the grain, no part of it can get 

 clamp, because the ears but just meet in the middle, 

 through which the air passes from the bottom to the top 

 Barley and oats sufficiently to dry it. I have mentioned sheaves, because in 

 made; into this county barley and oats are generally bound as well as 

 but ma' b wheat ; but both the former may be placed in these ricks 

 stacked with- without binding, as I had some barley put in one of them (by 

 out it. wa y of experiment), and think it to be the better mode when 



there is much grass in it, by carefully keeping the ears to- 

 gether when carried to the hurdles > where a man is ready to 

 put it up to another on the top, and to place the ears inwards ; 

 and it is done in as short a time as the like quantity is put 

 No waggon to on a waggon, with this advantage, that, whereas a waggon 



injure the yvith three or four horses goes over the clover to the ereat 

 clover. • . . 



injury of it in wet weather, by this method the corn is carried 



by women or children in their arms to the hurdles, without 



the 



