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ASRrCUirURAL EMATS, 



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When the threshing ofgrain is performed- with flails, it is 

 dow and hard work. Farmers in some parts of our country 

 thresh with a roller, which turns on a centre at one end and 

 ^hich ,s small and confined to the iioor at that enrbyan' iron 

 pivot oil which ,t turn,, and the other end is large in propor- 

 tion to the increase ofthe circle which it makes It is drawn 

 by ahorse, and IS usually of the length of about twel™ feet 

 It IS set full ofiittle square pieces of wooden teeth lln^™ 



perfice ofthe roller. With this a man and horse itis said 

 will thresh out about twelve bushels of wheat in a dJ ' 



put in use. Sir John Sinclair observes, that the threshinsr ma- 

 chine IS considered to be the most vduable imp lemenf t"at 

 r'r: *--,'>-7-^-<l, and states tlie follo^ a a- 



^fld ?^ ™""""- "'■ From the superiority of 



tiie mode, one twentieth part more is o-nmprl fr^J *u 



quantitrof straw than by?he«ldTsMoSrme«iod t The' ' 

 work IS done much more expeditiously. 3. The grain is Teas 

 subjec to injury. 4. Seed can be produced without ^ctty 

 from the new crop. 5. The markets may be supplied with 

 gram sooner m tunes of scarcity. 6. The straw softened by 

 themJl,.smoreusefulia feeding cattle. 7. If a stock of 

 corn be heated, it may be threshed in a day an. the gra n pre 



fromlT'"'"^- '• ^''^"'^'^^''ingmmiessenslheinl,; 

 from smutty gram. And 9. By the same machine, the grah^ 



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tZtw ^'""S!'"^'' Encylopedia, gives a description of a 

 threshing machine invented by Mr. Meckle, which on a large 

 scale, and driven by water, threshes, fans, and cleans wheat. 



