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he performed by manual labour. It is worked either 

 by 2 or 4 horfe», where water cannot be procured ; 

 and it will threfti from 20 to 40 bufliels in an hour, 

 and feparates the corn trom the chaff at the fame 

 tinie •, while the ordinary fervants on the farm are 

 fufficient to put the unthreihed corn into the ma- 

 chine and carry off the ftraw. The expence ol thefe 

 machines, on an yverage, does not exceed L. 8c ; and 

 the intereft of money, and annual tear and wear, 

 may be reckoned at L. 10 a year. In a country 

 where the threfliing of 1 20 quarters of grain cofts 

 that fum, the introdiidtion of fuch a machine as 

 this mull be a great improvement. 



CONCLUSION. 



In the preceding Report, every degree of pains 

 has been taken, in order to give a faithful account 

 of the prefent ftate of hulbandry in this county ; 

 and while, on the one hand, the defedls in the modes 

 of cultivation, and the manner in which the opera- 

 tions of hufbandry are in general conduded, have 

 been freely mentioned ; on the other, fuch as ap- 

 peared to be the great outlines for improvement, 

 have been pointed out ; and after ftating that a fpi- 

 lit for improvement is certainly intioduced among 

 all ranks in this country, and which, if properly en- 

 couraged, by the removal of thofe obftacles which 

 muft ever operate as a bar againft the general in- 

 trodudion of fpirited agriculture, cannot fail to be 

 attended with the moil beneficial confequeiices, in 

 every point of view. It therefore lemains only to 

 make thofe acknowledgments which are fo jullly 

 due, for the affiftance received from many reiped- 

 able Noblemen, Gentlemen, and Farmers, whofe 

 polite attention, and friendly manner of communi- 

 cating their fentiments on every lubjefl connected 

 with the furvey, rendered the employment in eve- 

 ry refpedl fatisfadlory and agreeable. 



