380 FARMER'S ASSISTANT. 



are threshed out ; when ihey separate the wheat from the 

 straw by forking it up; clean the wheat; and then proceed 

 as before, till the business is completed. Threshing- 

 machines are, however, the best ; and ihe expense of them 

 is but a trifle for those who raise large crops ot wheat and 

 other grain. 



For a threshing machine, which is probably the best that 

 has been yet invented, we refer the Reader to AGRICUL- 

 TURE, in the American edition of the Edinburg Encyclope- 

 dia, published in the cily ot Newyork, by M:>-,rs. Whiting 

 & Wats>n The invention is that of Mr. Meikle. A ma- 

 chine of i his description, on a lar^e sc*le, and drove by 

 watrr, separates wheat from the stalks, and fans or cleans 

 it, at the same time, at the rate of sixty bushels an hour. 



Oie, on a smaller scale, and which requires two Horses 

 to work iu and three H-.-nds to attend it, will thresh and 

 clean sixty bushels ol wheat, or double that quantity of 

 oats, in eight hours. The Writer of the article adds, that 

 ( rollers or small millstones are added to many ot these ma- 

 chines, for crushing or grinding grain for Horses, Swine,, 

 &c. K lives, for cutiug straw, and many oiher usetul ap- 

 pendages, might be added.* This machine has also beea 

 put into operation by wind 



See further, WIND-M*ACHINERY. 



It should also be added, that tins machine separates the 

 grain from the struw much cleaner, than is usually done 

 with the flail. 



TILLAGE. A great part of this Work relates to tillage, 

 or the culture of land ; the Reader must therefore refer to 

 the various articles which treat of this subject in ull its 

 branches. Any uncommon mode of culture* however, or 

 any miscellaneous observations relating to the subject, will 

 naturally form the substance of tins article. 



Under SOILING OF CATTLE is laid down a method of 

 tilling a small piece ot land, wherever such may be found 

 suitable for the purpose, which we have ventured to recom- 

 mend. The mode ot culture there recommended is uncom- 

 mon; the land is divided into narrow strips, and these are 

 to be ploughed but one way. Further, therefore, to assist 

 in convincing the most bigoted, that there is nothing ex- 

 travagant in the plan of cultivating in narrow strips, and 

 ploughing but one way; the mode of cultivating two fields, 

 whir.h is practised by the Inhabitants of Market-weighton^ 

 in Greatbritain, as published in the * Rusticuui Musu?n^ 

 shall be here noticed. 



These People have five fields, in common, for culture ; 

 three of a clayey soil, and two which are more sandy. The 

 latter supply them with rye, hay, and pasture for their 



