The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-08-19
Harvesting-s Shocking Stacking.

Nowadays there are so many really
good reapers in the market that but
little difficulty is experienced in cutting
the grain. This season, however, the
heavy rains in some parts of the west
have seriously interfered with the use
of machines from the GROUND being so
oft as to make it miry. It is to be
hoped that as the harvest advances that
the weather will be favorable for the
farmers have need for all the money
they will get for their grain. If unto
ward weather does continue, much may
be gained by cutting the more solid
parts of the field while the other pOr-
tions are drying of.
As a rule, western men are careless in
shocking the usually fine weather
| during the harvest season, leaving but
| little to be feared from rain during the
| season. In catching weather more grain
is lost from injury in the shock than
| from any other one cause. If care is
taken to shock carefully and firmly
the cap-sheaves should form an ample
protection against ordinary wet weather,
although sometimes long continued
storms will cause the inside of the
shocks to take water.
So in stacking, if the weather is bad
much trouble is Occasioned. Never
stack unless the straw is dry. Better
that 1t I'M ure in the shock than spoil in
the stack. If any fear is anticipated,
better leave all damp bundles out to be
dried before putting into the stack, So
when stacking when the dew is on,
place all cap-sheaves, or other damp
ones, near the outside of the stack.
There cannot be too much care taken
in any season in stacking. Our plan is
to build round stacks, setting the
sheaves around a central one until the
proper diameter is attained, leaving
plenty of room to lay out as the stack
proceeds, SO that when the stack is I'm
ished it shall have the appearance of an
egg resting on the larger end the top
drawn in, and carried up to as sharp
point as possible, over which the cap
sheaf of the longest straw is to be
firmly tied.
Keep the stack as you proceed from
the bottom to the top, well crowned to
the middle, and place each sheaf firmly
and compactly against its fellow, else as
the stack settles the sheaves will point
down to the centre and let water in
instead of carrying it off as It should.
From the point where the stack is to be
drawn in as it decreases in size keep
the middle full; and the faster the
stack is drawn in the fuller must the
middle be kept relatively.
If the middle of the stack from any
cause become too low, commence at the
centre and lay out to near the outside,
and then work as before. for if the
sheaves near the outside do not slant at
a considerable angle from the horizon
tai they will fail properly TO carry off
the water. This must be especially
attended to as the stack is drawn in,
and thereafter until it is finished.
To finish stack, stand in the centre
and place the bundles with care, and
when You have the stack to as sharp a
peak as possible, force a slender,
smooth, and sharply pointed stake as
far into the stack as possible, leaving
only eight or ten inches projecting
place the cap sheaf upon this, but up,
the heads projecting evenly downward
over the stack. Then tie the butt over
the top of the stake, and the stack
should be secure.
Select level, compact place for the
stack yard, and one well drained.
Place the stacks In line, and far enough
apart so the drips viii not reach an
other. and the lanes wide enough so
that the tbreshing machine may work.
Once stacked, the grain must remain |
intact from a month to six weeks before |
being threshed, to undergo and finish |
The seat that always takes place after |
- Western Farm Journal.
RABBITS Is Docs, BUT TURTLES IS IN |
5ECrs. -During an address of welcome |
at Concord, Mass, last Tuesday TO the |
members of the Essex Institute of Sa- I
lem, Judge z. r. Hoar related the fol- /
lowing incident as the only lesson he /
ever received in natural history: While /
in England he happened to /
be in a carriage with a lady who carried
a pet rabbit, which the guard declared /
could not be allowed In the passenger
car. ThereRpon a gentleman present
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