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wet weather? I think, that if two of them were fixed eight 

 feet apart, and two others placed on the top of them, 

 covered with straw, reed, rushes, heath, or furze, they 

 would form a covered hovel of eight feet square, and afford 

 great protection to sheep in wet weather, (particularly just 

 after being shorn ;) and to ewes in the lambing season also, if 

 some, that -were the most forward with lamb, were selected 

 and put into enclosures, where one end of each hurdle 

 might be put against a hedge, or against a wail, or end of a 

 hovel. These hurdles, covered in like manner also, would 

 be useful, if a number of them, proportioned to the quantity 

 of sheep, were put in the form of a square, in any part of 

 a field, in hot weather, to afford shade. They would induce 

 the sheep to lie there, and answer the purpose of folding, 

 as they could easily be moved to such part of the field as 

 wanted improvement; and the sheep would be more at ease 

 than when creeping under hedges, to the no small detriment 

 of their wool. 

 Farther use of I have to report to the Society, that I have this harvest 

 stand emp0rdy ma ^ e us ? °f t ^ ie hurdles on a larger scale, viz. to keep 

 raking wheat separate from the sheaf, and which was too 

 damp to put in sheaf; and also in small ricks of wheat for 

 seed, to save the trouble of taking it from a larger rick, 

 before the whole was wanted to be thrashed ; and for my 

 tithe wheat, that was not sufficiently dry to put into a barn. 

 Late crop of 1 had also five acres of white pease, which were drilled 

 pease. where a crop of vetches had failed, so late as the 1 2th of 



May; they proved to be a very great crop, but they ripened 

 so late, and the tops of the haulm were so green, from 

 having shot out to an extraordinary length, that they were 

 not all carried till the 27th of last month. Atone time I 

 almost despaired of ever getting them dry, owing to the 

 heavy dews which fell during the night, and continued 

 during most of the day, so as to afford but a few hours to 

 dry my crop. I therefore took up six waggon loads from 

 the middle of the field, on the 25th of last month, and put 

 them on twelve gate hurdles adjoining each other, for the 

 purpose of making one roof, and set the hurdles in the 

 manner of my ricks. The first two loads were put on four 

 of these hurdles at one end, which would contain four loads 



if 



