£6§ TEMPORARY RICK FOR SAVING CORN. 



rick about eight feet from the tops of the hurdles. It will 

 require about seventy sheaves from the top of the above 

 fifteen rounds, to the top of the conic roof. Four sheaves 

 crossing each other, five times in the centre of the rick, will 

 form in the whole twenty, making as follows: 



120 Sheaves to the top of the hurdles. 

 600 Sheaves from the tops of the hurdles, to the com- 

 mencement of the roof. 



72 Sheaves in the conical roofs. 



SO Sheaves in the cross or bonds of the rick. 



§12 Sheaves, or upwards of 81 shocks in each rick, 

 which is more than the average produce ef an 

 acre. 



Length of The wheat in this part of the country is reaped near to 



the ground, and my sheaves, this year, are about 4f feet 

 long, for which the distance of 3 feet l\ inches between the 

 outer hurdles, and 3 feet between the inner hurdles, is 

 calculated. The distance should be regulated by the length 

 of the sheaves of barley and oats. When shorter than four 

 feet, the rick should be oblong instead of round. 

 Faggots usefuf Faggots of wood, placed at intervals within the rick, will 

 a* intervals. ^ e f oun( j particularly useful, where pease, vetches, clover, 

 hay seeds, and meadow hay, are put into these ricks, as the 

 faggots will promote a greater circulation of air. 



The number of the cross sheaves should be according to 

 the dampness or dryness of the corn, either in every row, 

 or every second or third row. 



Reference to Plate \\l,Jtg. 1, the Section of Mr, Jones's 

 Temporary Corn Hick, 



The letters, describing the same parts of the construction 

 of the rick, agree with those in Plate VI. 



A B, the two upright outside hurdles. 



C D, the two inclined hurdles. 



E E, the poles or sticks on which the sheaves are to be 

 first placed on commencing the riek, and which cross the 

 hurdles. 



II H H H, the sheaves composing the body of the stack. 



II, 



