IQ MACHINE FOR THRESHING HEMP AND FLAX* 



III. 



Description of a Machine for Beating out Hempseed and 

 Flaxseed* likely to be useful in Canada, By Mr. £zekiel 

 Cleall, of West Coker*, 



SIR, 



Machine for JL MADE a model of a machine for thrashing out hemp- 

 thrashing see d an d flaxseed, in the year 1803; and in the year 1805, 

 ' ' I had a real machine made after the plan of the model, by 

 Mr. John Wad man, carpenter and hemp merchant. The 

 said machine has been since tried and approved by many- 

 hemp and flax merchants. 



I now send the model for the inspection of the Society, 

 aud leave the event thereof to their decision. It does not 

 injure the stalk of the. hemp so much as the common mode 

 of thrashing out the seed, and consequently leaves it much 

 better for scaling. 



I am, Sir, your humble servant, 



EZEKIEL CLEALL. 



West Cok-er y near Yeovil, Somerset, ML 



March 22, .1806. 



Certificates. We whose names are hereunto subscribed, do certify, 



that we well know Mr. Ezekiel Cleall, of West Coker; that 

 we have many times seen his machine at work, in thrashing 

 out hempseed and flaxseed, and think it likely to be of 

 great public utilily; inasmuch as two women, whose wages 

 and allowance never exceed one half of what are allowed to 

 two men, will do as much work in any given time as such 

 two men. 



That the seeds thrashed by this machine are not so much 

 bruised or injured as by the old or common way, and the 

 hemp and flax are preserved from many injuries which they 

 suffer from the old method. 



* Trans..of Soc. of Arts, vol. XXV, p^H-3. Twenty guineas were 

 Tot*d to Mr. Cleall for this intention. 



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