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year, thoroughly to understand every convenience 

 and inconvenience of the old one, before he thinks 

 of going to work. But the farm-yard and offices, 

 if they must he done, rank with other profitable 

 improvements, that cannot (by those who have 

 money ready) be done too soon. At present, I shall 

 lay down such general observations on each office, 

 and on their general connexion forming the farm- 

 yard, as he may himself easily apply to his own 

 particular case. 



1. The threshing-mill. The most important ob- 

 ject, perhaps, which is answered by this machine, is 

 that of saving barns, which are so very expensive 

 in forming a new farm. I begin with it, as its posi- 

 tion determines that of almost every other build- 

 ing in the farmery. There is not the smallest 

 doubt of the propriety or profit of having one 

 of these machines fixed in the principal farm- 

 yard. If the farm be large, and stacks con- 

 sequently scattered over various fields of it, then 

 it may be right to have a moveable one also ; but 

 so many operations are wanting at home, that one 

 should certainly be fixed. I have, in four plates, 

 in the Annals of Agriculture, vol. xxxiii. p. 488, 

 explained the relative position of the stacks to be 

 built, on standings on wheels moving in a circular 

 iron rail -way, so contrived that a very few horses 

 (four sufficient for any common stack) will draw 

 each stack to the mill. This contrivance is essen- 

 tial, as it saves the whole expence of carting the 



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