Description of the Brabant Reaping Scythes.[Nov- rounding especially towards its heel, where its back edge is get up 50 much as to Shape its upper Surface almost as hol» Jow as a common table spoon.

B,-an ixon ferrule and wedge, with whichthe-scythe is fas tened to the Snead.

C, the snead of this Scythe: it istwo feet two inches long, one inch and a half broad, and one inch and a quarter thick. at its under end.

D, a slip of leather or loop, fastened to the upper end of the Snead, for the purpose before mentioned,

FIGURE IIL

A perspective View of the Staftf-Hook.

A, the taff of the hook: it is four feet long, and about an inch broad by one inch thick; it is used withthe left hand to collect the corn in Such small parcels as the reaper's Strength or dexlerity can cut off at a Stroke, with the Scythe in his right hand, which alternately follows the motion ofthe staff-hook in his left.

B, around iron hook, whose back edge forms a curve, which is part of a circle whose radius 15 five inches; its Shank or butt-end is Split and laid open, to embrace the end ofthe staff, and is Shaped like a wedge, and inserted into the Split end of the hook, which is fastened with iron rivets to the Staff.

C, the mortigse in the end of the staffl, which is of no other use than to pass a leather strap or cord through, when the Staff-hook, Scythe,&c. isto be tied up in a bundleto be carried on the reaper's Shoulder.

D, a leather loop fastened to the staff, for the finger of the left hand to passthrough, to Steady the hand and to keep the grasp at a proper distance from the ground.

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ON SIBERIAN WHEAT, AND ON BLIGHT, MIL- DEW, OR RUST; THE HYPOTHESIS OF SIR JOSEPH BANKS,&c.

To the Editor of the Agricultural Magazine.

SIR, Oct. 26th, 1805. M“ acknowledgments are due to Clericus ef Colonus, for 4 his letter in your Seventieth Number. They would bave been made at.an earlier, period,if 1 had not been desir- eus ofsceing the rezults of Some comparative, experiments