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the operation is an evident reafon why the feed 

 bears fo high a price; the barn-floors are likewife 

 quickly: deftroyed by that tedious forcible perform- 

 ance. It alfo anfvvers for flax-feed, canary, or any 

 other fmall feed ; alfo for feparating the huflc from 

 rice, which, by the prefent method in pracftice, is 

 performed at a great expence of time and hard la- 

 bour. The fame methods may be obferved in rcr 

 gulating the fmall mill for clover-feed, as the 

 corn-mill. 



The mill being capable of thefe performances, 

 as above related, will render it very ufeful to gar- 

 deners, nurferymen, feedfmen, &c. as the whole 

 is performed by one plain confl:rudcd machine, 

 eafily managed, and not liable to be out of repair. 



The objecJion made by fome gentlemen, againfl the 

 mill coming into general ufe, is, their fear of not 

 finding employment for their threftiers. To this I 

 anfwer; if gentlemen and farmers pay proper atten- 

 tion to improving their wafte lands, and other im- 

 provements requifite in hufbandry, they will be at 

 no lofs to find employment for their threfliers. 



The improvements made of late years in our 

 cotton manufadlories, by the help of ufeful im- 

 proved engines, is fuflkicnt to confute the notion 

 which many people have, that thofe improvements 



are 



