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again, when the bell rings a second time. The same plan 

 was carried into effect by Mr Dudgeon of Prora, in 1804. 

 Mr Dudgeon observes, that it is not only proper to have a 

 handle near the feeder, to warn the rest of the servants, and 

 the horses, when any occurrence renders it necessary to 

 stop them, but to have one in the opposite, or straw-end of 

 the barn, to warn the feeder, when any accident happens 

 out of his sight : he possesses the most powerful means of 

 stopping the machinery, by casting in whole sheaves be- 

 tween the rollers, and circumstances have often occurred 

 to require that precaution. 



When horses are yoked in threshing-mills, they ought 

 to have goggles, as they are so apt to look back. All horses 

 should have breechings to enable them to stop the machine, 

 and many have been killed, and much mischief done, owing 

 to the want of so essential an article. The lever, by which 

 the mill is wrought, ought always to be placed above the 

 horse's back. 



It is a most essential improvement to make the horses 

 work equally. To obtain that object, a plan has lately 

 been invented by Mr Walter Samuel, a smith near Edin- 

 burgh, the apparatus of which is simple and cheap, not ex- 

 ceeding 20 s. per horse, by means of which, it is contended, 

 that not only the horses are comparatively greatly eased in 

 the most severe labour in which these useful animals are 

 employed, but that a great saving results in the wear and 

 tear of the machine, from the regularity and uniformity of 

 the movements.* 



* An eminent breeder of horses near Howden, in Yorkshire, who sold 

 at one fair, ten horses for 1000 guineas, informed me, that he found the 

 threshing-mill an excellent mode of breaking horses, accustoming them 

 to noise and labour. Fine horses, however, could hardly be ventured in 

 such a machine, without the improvements above detailed. 



