THE

AGRICULTURAL MAGAZINE

No. LXVIIIL] MARCH, 180535[Vor. XIL.

ON HARVESTING CORN IN WET WEATHER.

To the Editor of the Agricultural Magazine. StR,

IN 1be year 1790; travelling in Livonia, from that place to Lieubau, in Courland, I noticed Several buildings, which from their Situation and appearance, led me to Suppose they were barns for Securing corn, except that they had all of them large chimneys, either at one end or the middle which led me to enquire the use of the buildings, upon which I was told by my fellow traveller that they were barns, and that the chimneys which struck me as 80 extraordinary in barns, were those of kilns, which were used in the barns throughout Courland for drying the corn in the straw, the large ones having the kiln in the middle, and the small ones at one end, and that when the corn was cut, what was cut in the day was in the evening put into the barn, and kiln- dried through the night, and threShed out and conveyed to the granaries the next day, to make way for-what might be cut that day to go through the 5ame process, and he added that this kiln-drying in the straw, did not prevent the corn being used for Sowing afterwards, as they made vo difference between their Seed and other corn; whether this mode is pecu- liar to Courland or is generally practised throughout the North ot Europe, 1 cannot Say; but all the corn I have Seen import- ed from the Baltic Seems to have been, more or less, kiln-

dried.

MR. EVANS'S MILL.

Whilst writing 1 am led to mention what Seems to me to be an improvement in the construction of Flour Mills, by Mr. Oliver Evans, of Wilmington, in Delaware county or state, North America, whose plan, Sectio2s, and description, Ihere- with inelose, and which, if of any use, is much at your Ser- vice. I would have been transmitted for that Purpose on my return from America, but on Shewins it to a neighbour who has a conziderable four mill, he seemed to conzider it oflittie use: It has therefore Jain by me ever Since, and would kavo

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