38 On Threshing out IVheat by a Roller. 



A. From 20 to 25 bushels. 



Q. What number of floors do you tread in a day ? 



A. Three. And all the wheat trod each day, is chaff 

 ed, and put into the barn. 



Q. The size of your yard to tread, and to stack on ? 



A. Seventy feet in diameter for treading, and 12 feet 

 on each side for stacking-. 



Mr. Cummins has added the following note to his an- 

 swers. " Joseph Foreacres treads with a machine about 

 44 the same size of mine. He never uses more than three 

 *' horses with it; and generally gets out in a day, about 

 " fifty bushels. Some days he exceeds that quantity, 

 vC with only himself, two boys between 15 and 20 years 

 ** old, and one small boy to ride. He chaffs the wheat. 

 ' puts it into the barn, and generally stacks the straw. 



u J. Cummins with six horses or mules, treads 60 

 " bushels ; frequently more, with four hands, and two 

 " boys to ride. He chaffs, and puts up the straw, &c. 

 ^ the same day." 



There are some objections to this mode of getting out 

 wheat ; and so there are to the flail, and to the Scotch 

 machine. Let any man though, try the method of tread- 

 ing here recommended, with his yard, roller, rakes, 

 forks and fan in order; the weather suitable, and the 

 hands a little experienced, and I am persuaded that he 

 will deem it superior to any other plan yet discovered, 

 as applicable to the great body of farmers. The Scotch 

 machine is two expensive for common use ; the flail is 

 two tedious : and neither of them will do the work bet- 

 ter, I conjecture, than the roller. The flail I know will 

 not. The threshing machine I never have seen; but 



