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STACK-Taci/ey any fort of tackle or contrivance employed 

 about a ftack of any kind, either for the purpoie of adilting 

 aiid expediting the work of forming, preparing, and buildinjr 

 >t, or for protefting and fecuring the materials of which it 

 is compofed, while the Itack is forming and fijiifhing. 

 Thefe different kinds of tackles and contrivances are often 

 very neceffary abont Hacks, while the work of forming and 

 finiihing them is in hand and going on with ; as they may 

 fave much time, labour, and trouble, as well as be of great 

 utility in preferving the different forts of articles in a fafe 

 ftate from the effefts of the weather, or other caufes. 

 Every kind of tackle, or contrivance of this nature, ftiould 

 always be made as readily applicable and convenient as pof- 

 fible, and fo th^t it may perform its intended ufc in the 

 eafieil and moll ready and complete manner there is a capa- 

 bility of, without having any fort of complexity or diffi- 

 culty in making ufe of it. 



Stack Hay-Barn, that fort of open barn which is con- 

 trived for the purpofe of receiving and having hay Hacked 

 up in it, in contradiftin£lion to thofe of the clofe common 

 kind in which it is fometimes put. Thefe barns are con- 

 ftruded in feveral different manners, as the nature of the 

 materials may allow, but moftly on polls of oak, or fome 

 other durable kinds, with open frames, lo as to admit air 

 in a very free manner. They have not unfrequently a capa- 

 city of holding from thirty to fifty loads of hay, and, in 

 fome inltances, even fo many as a hundred loads. See 

 HAY-5arn. 



The queflion has not yet been fully decided, whether hay 

 keeps better when Hacked up in the open air, or in common 

 barns, and thofe formed exprefsly for the purpofe. The 

 opinion of moil of the bell hay-farmers in the fouthern parts 

 of the kingdom is direftly m favour of the open Hack man- 

 ner, fo far as the quality of the hay is in any way con- 

 cerned ; and there can be no doubt but that the Hack-barn 

 method, defcribed above, may be equally or more beneficial 

 in that way, and Hill more advantageous in other refpedls. 

 But how f<tr the dole common barn is fuited to the pnrpole 

 of containing hay, has probably not yet been fully fliewn. 

 However, in many of the more northern parts of the 

 country, hay is not unfrequently fecured in barns of this 

 kind, and, on examination, h.Ts been found to be equally 

 fweet and good as when preferved in Hacks in the open air. 

 The experimental trials of others, in the more fouthern dif- 

 trifts, have likewife fhcwn the fame thing, fo far as they 

 have gone ; it being found, on cutting and binding up, that 

 it was not lefs good than that from the Hack-y;ird, being 

 equally free from dull. It cannot, however, be difputcd, 

 that hay put up in clofe barns is, in general, more liable to 

 become dully, and of a mouldy luHy quality about the fides 

 next the walls, and other futh parts, than fucli as is con- 

 tained in Hacks in the open air, or in futh barns as the 

 above. 



Many other forts of building; and roofed contrivance?, 

 befides thofe of the large Hack haybarn kind, may be had 

 recourfe lo for containintj hay, in diffeent fitiiauons and 

 circumllanccs, and be formed and raifed in a much mi;rc 

 ready and cheap manner. 



SlACK-Ro'fitl Corn-Barn, that fort of barn which has 

 the roof tormeil for the Uiily Ircnriiig of the Hacks of grain, 

 or other Inch matters as may be put into it, and the fides 

 and other parts fo raifed and m.ide open, as to produce per- 

 feft fecurity from vernin, aid tnll ventilation of the con- 

 tained materials. In the conllriifli n of it, upon the low 

 timber platform, which is put on polls or pill.irs, as in 

 ttaddles tor grain, the frame or flteleton of a perfcdl barn is 

 railed, with ends, fides, and roof, 'i'hc fides and ends arc 



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left open for the full admifTion of air ; but upon the roof is 

 put a complete and fubHantial coat of thatch, or f me other 

 luitkble, light, lafe material, which being expofcd to no 

 injuncn or miieiiief from mice, rats, or any thing clfe, ex- 

 cepting fire and the inclemency of the weather, will lall, it 

 is faid, for upwards of thirtv years. 



This is confidcred by Mr. H. wlctt, in the corrcfted ac- 

 count of the Hate of agriculture in the county of Ellex, as 

 a very great improvement on the ftaddle ercftions for corn- 

 Hacks or ricks ; for though it is remarked, that the pillars 

 and frame in that mode, together with the care and time 

 employed in raifing and providing them, and in thatching 

 the Hacks, mull obvioufly be attended with confiderable 

 charge beyond what would have been necellary for the mere 

 laying up the corn in the common barn ; and, after all, it 

 muH be again taken down and removed, before it can be 

 threfhed ; — the height from the ground fecures it from 

 vermin ; the thatch preferves it from the weather ; and the 

 expofure of its ends and fides to the air, which are merely 

 the butt-ends of the fheaves, keeps it entirely fweet and 

 pure, far beyond the bell common barn or granary in the 

 world. And, indeed, the farmers' ricks and barns arc, it 

 is fuppofed, the only kind of granaries which a wife and 

 patriotic government in this country will ever encourage : 

 their contents will generally be brought forth at the pro- 

 pereH time, not Hinking and fpoiled by conveyance in fliips 

 from abroad, or by lying and rotting in the warehoufe of 

 the merchant, but pure, found, and good, as when carted 

 from the field. 



The fiiperior advantages of this Hack-roofed mode over 

 that of the common barn, and the common rick or Hack 

 manner, are, however, it is thougiu, great and numerous. 



Thefe fiirts of barns are often made from lifty to fixty 

 feet in length, having a breadth or width of fix teen or 

 eighteen feet ; but they may have fmallcr dimenfions, as 

 may be necellary. They are fometimes raifed on large 

 fcales, and fo contrived as lo ferve as cart-lodges for loaded 

 corn, and other ways, upon the moveable rafters on the 

 fides being taken away. See Staddle, Grain Stand, and 

 Wheat Rick Stand. 



SiwcK-Tard, the inclofure or yard in which the Hacks 

 of hay and grain, as well as thofe of other field produce, are 

 placed. Thefe yards fhould always be conveniently fituated 

 tor the barns or threfliing-miUs. Tiiey fliould alio always 

 be fufiiciently fpacious and airy, having a firm dry bottom . 

 and fome advile them to be ridged up, to prevent the accu- 

 mulation of furface-water ; as by thefe being pretty well 

 raifed in the middle, and covering the places where the Hacks 

 are to be built, either with rough Hones, with a mixture of 

 gravel, or paving them in the lame manner as Hreets, much 

 advantage would be gained at little expcnce. But a much 

 better method is to have the bottom parts for the Hacks 

 raifed coi.fiderably above tlie fuiface, and placed upon 

 pillars of wood or Hone, with a covering of wood or Hone 

 round the circumference, and beams laid acrofs. The in- 

 clofing of Hack-yards is alfo a matter that (hould be attended 

 to more particularly, and be well performed in fome manner 

 or other, either by means of low walls or palings. 



On large .irable farms the Hack-yards are not unfre- 

 qnently divided for diflerent forts of produce; but this is 

 leldoni or ever necellary for tliolc of the middling or fmaller 

 fizis, as it creates hii additional expence and trouble, with- 

 out any adeejuate advuiitage being derived from it, efpecially 

 wliere the yaids, in thefe cafes, are fufficieiitly extenlive fcr 

 the quantity of corn-ll.icks which are to be put into them. 



Ill thefe yards the Hacks Ihould be arranged fomewhat 

 according to the nature of the matters or produce which are 



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