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The argument of fome farmers, in vindication 

 of the old method of threfhing, is, that the corn 

 which flies off from the flail, and what is left in 

 the ftraw, is not lofl, as the cattle, hogs, and 

 fowls, eat it; but that kind of argument mull fail, 

 when the confumption of the London market for 

 ftraw is confidered, and other large cities and 

 towns within the kingdom ; fuch fliraw being ufcd 

 for litter and other purpofes. Therefore corn is 

 equally loft in all thofe ufes which ftraw is put to, 

 as the hogs, fowls, &c. cannot be benefited by it 

 as in the country; and it is reafonable to fuppofe, 

 that every induftrious intelligent farmer would wifti 

 to know as near as poffible the neat produce of his 

 farm, by having his crop clean threflncd, fo that 

 there be little or none remain in the ftraw when 

 meafured out to his ftock of beafts, poultry, &c. 

 By fo doing he will come at the expences he ought 

 to know, and his ftraw be equally ferviceable for 

 the various purpofes it is made ufe of in London 

 or any where elfe. 



I have tried the experiment of threftiing the corn 

 clean out from feveral trufles or bundles of ftraw, 

 and found that a trufs, which weighed thirty-fix 

 pounds, contained in it two pounds four ounces of 

 wheat, which meafured (after thoroughly cleared) 

 two pints and a half. Thirty-fix trufles are a load, 

 and, according to this experiment, in one load are 



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