THRESHIKG. '26^ 



at the rate of sixty "bushels an hour. On a smaller scale, work- 

 ed by two horses and three hands to attend to it, this machine 

 will thresh and clear sixty bushels of wheat, or double that 

 quantity of oats, in eight hours. Rollers or small mill stones 

 are added to many of these machines for crushi.ig or grinding 

 grain. Knives for cutting hay, he obsi^rves, might be added, 

 Mr. Elihue Hotchkiss, of Brattleborough, Vermont, has invent- 

 ed and taken a patent for a threshing machine, from the Mas- 

 sachusetts Agricultural Society, in 1818. The Society like- 

 wise purchased the patent right for Massachusetts, and it may 

 be found am.ong the implements belonging to that Society. 



A remark may be made relating to the threshing machine, 

 which has been mentisned, that is applicable to the economy 

 of all labor-saving machines ; which is, that their object is not 

 to encourage habits of indolence, or any exemption from those 

 of the most indefatigable industry. Let all the labor be saved 

 which can be effected by the intelligence and ingenuity of man, 

 and still, in the progress of agricultural miprovements, enough 

 will be found to engage the whole attention, and give emplo'}'- 

 ment to all his energies. The most perfect state of agricultur- 

 al improvements, is not to be expected, without the intellectual 

 powers of man are called into action, te aid and facilitate his 

 labors.. 



