The journal of a naturalist / [Anon].

  • John Leonard Knapp
Date:
1829
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Credit: The journal of a naturalist / [Anon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    haps of packs), when properly made, resist long and heavy rains, the sheaves not being simply piled together, but the heads gradually elevated to a certain degree in the centre, and the butt end then shoots off the water, the summit being lightly thatched. An objection has been raised to this custom from the idea, that the mice in the field take refuge in the pooks, and are thus car- ried home; but mice will resort to the sheaves as well when drying, and be conveyed in like man- ner to the barn : we have certainly no equally efficacious or speedy plan for securing a crop of wheat, and thousands of loads are thus commonly saved, which would otherwise be endangered, or lost by vegetating in the sheaf. We will admit that grain, hardened by ex- posure to the sun and air in the sheaf, is sooner ready for the miller, and is generally a brighter article than that which has been hastily heaped up in the pook; but when the season does not allow of this exposure, but obliges us to prevent the germinating of the grain by any means, I know no practice, as an expedient, rather than a recommendation in all cases, more prompt and efficacious than this. Two of our crops not being of universal cul- ture are entitled to a brief mention. We grow
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