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Thrashing Machines. With a few exceptions, and those 

 on the Da'iras and extensive properties where thrashing 

 machines are used, the norag is the only implement used 

 for the thrashing of the various cereal crops grown in 

 Egypt. It is very simple in construction, the more 



FIG. 37. THE NORAG. 



improved norags consisting of an iron frame measuring 

 one metre eighty in length and ninety centimetres in width 

 and carrying from four to six axles. On these axles are 

 fixed a number of steel discs, and when the implement is 

 drawn by a pair of oxen in a circle over the cut crop, the 

 grain is thrashed out and the straw chopped and bruised 



