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 MODEL DESIGNS FOR FARMERIES. 407 frame round it, but may be merely a circular opening, of two feet in diameter, left in building tlie rick. 815. Morel- Vinde's rick stands are of two kinds, one of which is circular and the other square, and both are calculated for containing 3000 sheaves. The circular rick stand, fig. 831, is twelve feet in diameter; and, to contain 3000 sheaves, the rick must be carried up to the height of twenty feet. It is surrounded by a ditch from two to three feet deep, the soil from which serves to elevate the stand or basis of the rick. On tliis is placed a bed of faggots, which is first covered with straw, and on which the sheaves are afterwards built in the usual manner. Morel- Vinde's square rick stand is called in France the Ame- rican rick stand. It is formed of a square frame of carpentry, fig. 832, with a St. An- drew's cross in the middle, and is placed on five posts, each of which is furnished with a cone of tinned iron, in the form of an inverted basin, to prevent the ascent of vermin, as shown at a a, in fig. 833 ; on this frame are placed faggots and straw, and afterwards the 832 sheaves ; and, when the sides are twelve feet high, this square rick, at that height, will contain 3000 sheaves. 816. 77(6 Dutch rick stand is made square in the plan, with a frame of wood, placed on five wooden posts, furnished with tinned iron cones, like the American rick stand ; but it differs from it in ha- ng the corner posts, twenty-five feet high, tied together at top, so as to be there at exactly the same distance as at bottom, by horizontal rails, as shown in fig. 834 ; and further braced at top by two pieces in the form of a St. Andi-ew's cross, as shown in fig 835. The sheaves are built in the usual manner within the four posts ; and in the centre of the under side of the cross of St. Andrew, at top, is fixed a pulley, to which is suspended a light roof, formed of deal, and covered with matting of drawn wheat straw, placed quite thin, or of oiled or tarred canvass, as shown in figs. 836 and 837. This light roof is raised and lowered at pleasure by means of the windlass h, in figs. 834, and 835 and a cord, which passes over a pulley placed on the top of one of the corner posts, as shown at c, in figs. 834 and 836. The rest of the construction of this rick stand will be sufficiently obvious from the figures. We agree with M. INIorel-