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Setting up these poles is somewhat more ae trouble than carrying bins(as sedans) from | lot to lot. But the saving of time and dis~ f ae putes, in measuring, would seem to more : than counterbalance that advantage: and ee the apparatus altogether is much simpler, four and cheaper, than that of*West Kent. takes| Ta utes, similar to those of the District lund, of Maidstone, are in use, here, for keeping nial the pickers’ accounts: with the addition of nori- LEADEN TOKENS, for odd bushels. Never- , by theless, a file is carried, to score such bushels, orm on the end of the tally, when the tokens e, Of fall short. This renders the business more wah a complex, and, on a cursory view, apparently

less eligible, than it is, in West Kent: see

8, 4 page 251. asket DRYING HOUSE. Isaw one, ona very Wo- simple and eligible plan, in this District. A rent| long-square building is divided, lengthways, Sy into two equal or nearly equal parts, by a ‘one partition, running from end to end;and from hem, the ground floor to near the ridge of the

bie roof. On one side of this partition, three | kilns are placed; the space over them be-

ing free and open, to the roof. The other . side is divided into stories; having a ground,

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