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IMPLEMENTS OF HUSBANDRY

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SECT. III.

IMPLEMENTS FOR HARVESTING CORN.

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It is the common practice in Scotland , to carry home thecrop either in doable or single horse carts, as they are foundto be more easily managed than waggons or wains, andalso by using carts, the carrying home of the crop goes onmuch more expeditiously. One of these carts will carry fromten to twenty threaves at once, according to the size of thesheaves, or the distance and nature of the roads •, and are like-wise easily loaded and unloaded.

The crop thus brought home, is almost universally built inround stacks; and, in a few districts, each stack is placed upona frame of wood, supported by seven or nine stone pillars,from eighteen to twenty inches high, and each pillar is fur-nished with a bonnet, or thin circular stone, about twelve in-ches in diameter, placed upon its top. By this means, mice,or any sort of vermin, are prevented from getting up to thestack; and it being clear from the ground, the corn is kept'perfectly dry.

There have lately been invented, near Alloa , cast-metalpillars, for supporting the frames on which corn-stacks are tobe built: this must be a very useful invention, especially wherestone pillars cannot be readily obtained. These pillars are ge-nerally about two feet in height, with a rim or fledge aboutone foot diameter, on which they standi each pillar having athin plate of iron about nine inches diameter, placed on itstop, which prevents mice from getting up among the grain.After levelling the ground where the pillars are to be placed,that they may stand upright, and be all level on the top, one