An encyclopædia of agriculture [electronic An encyclopædia of agriculture [electronic resource] : comprising the theory and practice of the valuation, transfer, laying out, improvement, and management of landed property, and the cultivation and economy of the animal and vegetable productions of agriculture, including all the latest improvements, a general history of agriculture in all countries, and a statistical view of its present state, with suggestions for its future progress in the British Isles encyclopdiaofa02loud Year: 1831 828 PRACTICE OF AGRICULTURE. III. tlcail ripe, whicl
An encyclopædia of agriculture [electronic An encyclopædia of agriculture [electronic resource] : comprising the theory and practice of the valuation, transfer, laying out, improvement, and management of landed property, and the cultivation and economy of the animal and vegetable productions of agriculture, including all the latest improvements, a general history of agriculture in all countries, and a statistical view of its present state, with suggestions for its future progress in the British Isles encyclopdiaofa02loud Year: 1831 828 PRACTICE OF AGRICULTURE. III. tlcail ripe, whicli, to a certain extent, lessens the danger to which they are exposed from high winds ; and if the sheaves are made small, the danger from shcddin;^ after rains is con- siderably lessened, because they are thus sooner ready for the stack. Under every manage- ment, however, a greater quantity of early oats will be lost during the harvest process than of the late ones ; because the latter adhere firmly to the straw, and consequently do not drop so easily as the former. (Brown.) In harvesting oats in wet seasons, the practice of gaiting the sheaves (3176.) is generally adopted. In Sivedeti, in tnost seasons, the oat crop is dried on frames or poles (704.) ; and in Russia, not only oats, but barley and rye, are kiln-dried in the straw. .'5142. Kiln-drying oats and other corns in the straw has been found necessary, and is very generally practised through the north of Russia, Livonia, Courland, and Lithuania, being the last operation of harvest for preserving all kinds of corns, peas, beans, and They are dried in the fields as much as can l)e ; but, when brought home, they are kiln-dried, and are then ready to be either threshed out immediately, or put up in barns, without any danger of either corn or straw becoming musty or rottirg. The common practice of the boors is, during winter, to thresh out by degrees, as in this country, their oats and barley, in order to have s
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