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AGRICULTURAL MAGAZINE.

Na Sell]| JULY, 1803.[VorL. IX.

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METHOD OF HARVESTING CORN IN WET WEATHER, AS PRAC=- TISED IN PHE NEIGHBOURHOOD OF MONS) IN THE DE- PARTMENT OF GEMAPPE.. 4

WITH A PLATE ANNEXED-.

HE method of prezerving in wet weather, corn in the

Sheaf, cousists in making Small Stacks or ricks of It, in

the field where it is grown, and as S00n as 1t.18;Cut.:„Each

Stack contains the quantity of fifty or Sixty Sheaves, and will be about 5ix.or Seven feet high.

For this purpose the driest parts of the field Should be cho- gen, and those Sheaves which are first laid down, placed in Such a manner that the ears of corn do not touch the ground. In order to understand the mode of doing it, See the Plate, Fig 1. You place upon the ground the first Sheaf A, upon which you put a Second C, but observe well that the ears of corn of these Sbeaves are put in the centre in the midst of the Stack as after-mentioned; and that the heads ofall the Sheaves as the Stack 13 making, are 80 placed that the corn be in the centre of tbe Stack, and the Straw on the outside thereof.-

Upon the gecond Sheaf C, you are to place a third Sheaf EFG, and this requires Some, Skill, the ears of corn of the third Sheaf lie upon those of the Second, and are thus pre- Served from the moisture of the earth, but it is not 50 with the ears of, corn of the firstobeaf laid upon.the ground,'which would be liable to humidity, you must therefore double the third Sheaf E FG in FP, and make the.tbick end of this Sheat pass under: the earis.of. corn of the first Sheaf A, as is Shewn in Figure 1.

You. will.obzerve; by: this arrangement that the grain does not touch the ground in any part, and that by this means it is Supported on all Sides;by ime bulk ot the Sheafs E F G.: This Construction forms a foundation or point of Support, upon which all.the other mall eheaves are placed in the torm of a round fower.| EIT

Although to.distinguish tbe Sheaves from each other, a Small Space or void is. left betwixt each Sheal in the üaure; you ought to conzider these Spaces filled with Sheaves, for when you make your Stacks.tbey wiyl be co! 57:80, as YOU will observe by Fig. 2, where all are filied. You must be-partieu- larly attentive notto leave any holes or intervals by which wa-

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