Harvesting Corn. 
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I have boon in the habit of building my stacks on stackllos 
30 I'oct hjng and 12 feet wide, the ends being circuhir. Com- 
mencing in the middle, the first outside sheaves are allowed to 
project 6 inches over the frame, and the next two courses overlap 
to the same extent, which brings the width to 15 feet ; the walls 
or sides are then carried up so nearly vertical that when 12 feet 
high the width has only increased by 18 inches ; the head or roof 
is then put on at an angle of 45 degrees, which settles down to 
about 40 degrees : these stacks hold about 8000 sheaves, reaped 
low. They require nine square of thatching, costing Is. per 
square, which comes to l\d. per hundred sheaves. If the crop has 
been bagged, the cost of thatching is about llfd. ; if mown, Iff/. ; 
if high -reaped, Id.; if machine-reaped, l^fZ. ; if machine-mown, 
Wd. per hundred sheaves. The thrashing I have found to cost per 
hundred sheaves an average of lOrZ. for high-reaped sheaves, 
\s. for low-reaped. Is. 2d. bagged. Is. 2>d. mown. Is. \d. machine- 
reaped, and Is. 2d. machine-mown. 
1 have put together these various costs in the following table : — 
Operations. 
Trice per \\m 
Sheaves. 
High 
Reaping 
540 
Sheaves. 
Price per lou 
Sheaves. 
Low 
Reaping 
720 
Sheaves. 
I'rice per 100 
Sheaves. 
Bagging 
Low 
850 
Sheaves. 
Price per lOo 
Sheaves. 
Mowing 
Low 
975 
sheaves. 
Price per 100 
Sheaves. 
Machine 
Reaping 
810 
Sheaves. 
Price per 1 00 
Sheaves. 
Macliine 
Mowing 
850 
Sheaves. 
Cutting and \ 
shocking . 5 
Carting and ) 
stacking . 5 
d. 
21 
4 
Per acre. 
£. s. d. 
0 9 11 
0 1 9i 
d. 
21 
4 
Per acre. 
£. s. d. 
0 12 7 
0 2 4i 
d. 
14 
4 
Per acre. 
£. s. d. 
0 10 0 
0 2 10 
d. 
lOi 
4 
Per acre. 
£. s. d. 
0 8 6 
0 3 2 
d. 
9 
4 
Per acre. 
£. s. d. 
0 6 0 
0 2 8J 
d. 
11 
4 
Per acre 
£. s. d 
0 7 10 
0 2 10 
Thatcliing . 
Tliresliing . 
1 
10 
0 0 5i 
0 4 G 
12 
0 0 9i 
0 7 2i 
li 
14 
0 1 oi 
0 9 11 
li 
15 
0 15 
0 12 1 
li 
13 
0 0 lOi 
0 8 7 
U 
14 
0 1 Of 
0 9 U 
Total cost per 7 
acre . . .5 
40 
0 16 8i 
1 2 m 
33i 
1 3 9i 
301 
15 2 
27i 
0 18 2 
30i 
1 1 7i 
Cutting and \ 
cartins stub- > 
ble . . .J 
Loss in value V 
of straw . J 
0 3 9 
0 9 4 
1 1 9 
1 2 Hi 
1 3 9i 
1 5 2 
0 18 2 
1 7 7i 
On all these systems, except that of high-reaping, autumn cul- 
tivation can be carried on even between the shocks, if these are 
carefully set up in straight rows. It may be satisfactorily shown 
that the saving effected by high-reaping is more than coun- 
terbalanced by the cost of harvesting the stubble and by the 
deterioration of the straw. To prove this point I carefully 
removed the straw off four square yards of ground and set it up 
even at the bottom, when I found that the top foot gave at the rate 
of G cwt. per acre, the second 6 cwt, the third 7 cwt., the fourth 
8 cwt., the fifth 9 cwt., and the sixth 10 cwt. per acre in round 
numbers on a full crop. As the standard crop taken for our cal- 
