1803.) Method of Harregting Cory in Wet Weather. 0]

fhree bands or ropes placed triangularly, these ropes or bands are made gf Straw taken from the sheaves, or from grass ot zweeds, of which there is usually plenty to be found in the Seld. These Straw ropes are iwiSted by the hand into 5ome of the Straw of the cover, and thelower ends ef them fastened to the Stack or the ground by wooden pegs, as Shewn in Vig. 4, where two of the bands are represented at H H, and the pegs att 1:

If the 5easeon is very wet, but yet tbe rain not incessant, but the weatherfair for only three or four hours, and we do not cut down the whole ßeld.of corn, but only Such a part thereof.as can be put in the Sheaf, and Stacked immediately. What is thus pufin the Stack is Safe and Secure from therain. Ifthe rain comes on Suddenly the corn which is cut is left upon the ground, because when left open it 1s Jess zubject to sprit, and iF the weather becomes fair, two bours time will be suficient to dry it, it Should then be collected and immediately put in ehe Stack. Ifthe rain comes 09, the work Should be Stopped ll it is again fair weather, for the corn which has been thus Stacked dry is.certain to be good.

Whenever an 9pportunity offers.of a few hours fair weather "every person Should be.employed to expedite the work, and if plenty of hands can be got,.a large crop may be Secured in 4hree or four days.|

In the vsual mode of harvesting corn much labour and time are negessary after the corn Is cut, and it,xemains.also long 'eXposed to the weather, but in the plan here recommended, as 5000 28 It is.cut and collected.iogether it Is put in the Stack and Hnished.

Another advantage in.oyr method is that the corn ripens and improves in the Stack both in quality and colour, by a gentle fermentation attending it.

After the corn has been all putin the stacks as Ibave degerib- ed, and the weather Sometime after becowes geitled, you Should begin to uncover he Stacks at about eigbt or nine o'clock in the morning, the cover'Should be Jaid 1D a reverse Situation, namely, with the ears of corn uppermost, in order 40 dry better, then take in your arms tbe Sheaves of corn trom the Stacks, and lay them in heaps of the Size of a large Sheatf for two or three haurs, till the moisture 15 evaporated, then Ppind them in large Sheaves, and cart them to the barn.

This practice has been purzued in diflerent distriets of the gountry with great zuccess, and upon corn mown with the geythe, as well as that cut or reaped with tbe Sichkle,