TEMPORARY RICK FOR SAYING CORN. 2fi3 



and also preparing land for turnips after vetches, to accele- Cheapness and 

 rate the sowing; in which case, the delay of a few days has 

 frequently occasioned a total loss of the crop. 



It is an essential consideration, that the expense attending 

 improvements should not counterbalance their utility: and 

 I flatter myself, there can be no objection to this mode on 

 that score, because gate hurdles are useful appendages to a expeditioa. 

 farm, in any county, for other purposes, when not used on 

 this occasion ; and in this and other counties they are re- 

 quisite for dividing turnips for sheep ; and, as to expedition, 

 which is of great importance in harvest concerns, four of 

 these hurdles (as I have already observed) may be fixed in 

 five minutes. 



If, therefore, the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, 

 Manufactures, and Commerce, instituted for the laudable 

 purposes which it professes, should think my plan combines 

 utility with cheapness and expedition, I should consider my- 

 self flattered by their approbation; and feel a degree of 

 satisfaction in the reflection, that I have not turned my 

 thoughts in vain to a subject, which must be allowed to be 

 of great importance. I am, sir, 



Your most obedient servant, 

 Foxdown Hill, June 7th, 1810. W. JONES. 



SIR, 



I have been favoured with your letter, acknowledging 



your having received my model of a temporary rick, and 



recommending me to send certificates of its use. 



I have to add, that the barley I had put on these hurdles State of the 

 , .1 , barley saved. 



last year was done in ray presence, by the same man who 



removed it afterward to the barn, thrashed, and sowed it; 



he is ready to attest my former statement of the hurdles 



requiring only five minutes time to fix in the ground ; of the 



barley preserved by them growing perfectly well, with a 



prospect, from its present appearance, of yielding a good 



crop; and with this farther remark, that it was so damp 



when put upon the hurdles, that he was apprehensive it 



would be spoiled, and was much surprised when he took it 



into the barn, to find it so perfectly dry. 



I notice your query, whether these hurdles could not be Temporary 



applied to the purpose of temporary hovels for sheep, i n hovelforshe *P» 



wet 



