TEMPORARY RICK FOR SAVING CORN. g^| 



the least injury to the clover, a consideration fully adequate 

 to a little extra expense, if any, beside that of being more 

 expeditiously secured ; for every practical farmer will be sen- 

 sible in how short a time an acre of corn may be carried from 

 the circumference^ an acre to its centre. As to the time Time of fixing 

 of fixing these hurdles, I have ascertained, that two people the stand. 

 can fix them in five minutes, and one rick would contain 

 the produce of two acres of barley or oats. The other ad- Other adv*a. 

 vantages, beside the corn being thus sooner secured, are, that ta g es - 

 no more attendance on it is required, so that a farmer's at- 

 tention may be better directed to his other harvest concerns, 

 and, that one or two of these ricks at a time, (as may be con- 

 venient), may be taken into a barn to thrash, whereas a part 

 of a large rick cannot be taken in without the trouble and 

 expense of thatching the remainder, and being subject to 

 the risk of rain before it may be covered again. 



I trust it will be seen, that by this plan there must be a Saying of 

 great saving of the quantity as well as the preservation of the fj^"^^,^ 

 quality of the grain, which is known often times to shed a from injury. 

 great deal by being frequently turned to get dry. Before I 

 thought of this expedient (last barley harvest), I am clear, 

 that a field of pease of mine required to be turned so often, 

 that more shed out than were sown ; and a farmer in this 

 neighbourhood had a good crop of eight acres of vetches re- 

 duced to sixty bushels, by so frequently turning them for 

 three weeks, without getting them dry at last; whereas an 

 acre or two might have been taken up in this way a few days 

 after they were cut, and the seed would have got sufficiently 

 hard, but the greater part of these were so soft as to be much 

 bruised in thrashing, and it was to be feared a great part of 

 them would not vegetate. I had an opportunity of knowing 

 the quantity, having the tithe of them ; and proving the in- 

 jury by the loss of my crop in sowing them, insomuch that 

 the land has been since ploughed. 



Although I have not tried it, yet I think it is not to be Application 

 doubted, but that this mode may be applied with equal a ^- hay orTeed 

 vantage to clover hay, and clover seed, before it may be dry 

 enough to put into a large rick, by being placed in this si- 

 tuation to dry without being so frequently turned as to de- 

 prive the hay of its finest parts, and subject the seed to great 



waste. 



