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Account of a Corn Shellifig Machine, by Charles TF. 



Peale. 



Read September 15, 1813. 



Beljield, Philad. Co. Aug. 27, 1813. 



Dear Sir, 



The enclosed sketch and explanation will I hope 

 give a perfect idea of the corn shelling machine ; a 

 description of my mill and the various application of 

 it to husbandry in the saving of labour, I must reserve 

 for some future day, when I may be able to make the 

 various machines more complete, by extending the 

 building. 



I am, dear sir, with high consideration. 

 Your friend, 



C. W. Peale. 



P. S. By some experiments I find that butter is best 

 made by churning very fast, but great care is neces- 

 sary to stop the mill the instant the butter begins to 

 gather; then the movement must be very slow to gather 

 the butter, otherwise it will be very soft, and the but- 

 ter milk will be so much beat into it, as to render the 

 separating of it extremely difficult.^ 



* Every chymist knows, that Butter is the oxigenated oil of the 

 milk. The more rapidly and completely this oil is separated (its 

 mixture being mechanical or very slightly chymical) so as to ex- 

 pose the most particles to the oxigen of the air ; the shorter is the 

 time, for whjit is vulgarly called, " the coming of the butter." I 



