2^2 TEMPORARY RICK FOR SAVING CORN. 



and to grass waste. In cases also when meadow hay may be dry enough 

 cut or iay. to ^ ut > n | ar g e coc \ s on the appearance of rain, how much 

 injury do they receive by the bottom being rendered so wet 

 as to occasion a dampness some way up, and require much 

 time to throw abroad to dry ? Whereas, in the same state of 

 dryness, how many of such cocks may be put on four hur- 

 dles; and the bottom instead of being wet and injuved will be 

 perfectly dry, having air circulating under it, and from the 

 two middle hurdles quite to the top; if a sheaf of reed was 

 to be drawn up through it, as the hay got higher : a bundle 

 of straw on the top would secure it from rain. Or, instead 

 of a reedsheaf drawn up, a couple of small faggots of wood, 

 or three or four poles bound together, and placed horizontally 

 about; the middle of the rick, to admit air at each end, and 

 render it dry enough to be carried on to a rick without far- 

 ther trouble or risk. 

 Hay injured Hay is known to receive injury, not only from rain, but 

 by exposure to e ven from fervent sunshine, when nearly dry, if not frer 

 ? quently turned : as may be observed by the change of colour 

 and loss of smell, which many farmers in this neighbourhood 

 experienced in the summer of 1800, for want of hands to 

 turn it sufficiently. I have seen an infusion of such hay 

 made in a tea-pot, and compared with an infusion of the 

 like quantity of good hay in another : the former was very 

 deficient both in colour and taste to the latter, and the qua- 

 lity of it, of course, much deteriorated. 

 The straw im- We know that straw, particularly of barley or oats, will. 

 proved. be much injured by being long on' the ground exposed to 



spaking dews, and perhaps to alternate rain and sunshine; 

 and may it not, when protected from them by this mode, be 

 far superior for cattle to what we are at present aware of? 

 Beside the advantages of grain, hay, and straw, being thus 

 better preserved, and less expense of labour than by repeat- 

 Farther advan- edly turning in rainy seasons, there is another advantage of 

 ta & e .' no small consequence, that the crops may be removed, and 



put on hurdles in another field, (without any hindrance to 

 sheep feeding therein) when the land whence they were 

 taken may be immediately ploughed ; for instance, after 

 pease, to facilitate a better fallow, (than if delayed), to be, 

 succeeded by wheat, and ploughing clover lays for wheat, 



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