DESCRII'TION OP A THKASHIN& MACHINE. 



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In all probability the best method of wash- 

 ing with seawater would be to get a cask of 

 any size that may be most convenient, fit- 

 ted with two cocks, one at the bottom, and 

 the other at one-third of the entire height 

 from the top; to fill the cask nearly with 

 sea-water, and to render it slightly sub- 

 alkaline by the addition of a solution of 

 any cheap alkali. By standing for twelve 

 hours the earth thrown down by the al- 

 kali will have subsided, so that one-third 

 of the water may be drawn off clear by 

 the upper cock. The washing should be 

 begun by the turbid water contained in 

 the lower part of the barrel, mixed with 

 a convenient portion of fullers earth, and 

 finished with the clear water and common 

 soap . — Retrospect 



NEW AND EXPEDITIOUS MODE OF BUDDING. 



BYT. A. KNIGHT, ESQR.F. R. S Horticultural 



Transactions, Vol. l.part 4. 



Mk. Knight having noticed tiiat while 

 the luxuriant shoots of the peach and nec- 

 tarine trees were generally barren, the lat- 

 eral shoots of the same season, were often 

 productive of fruit, thought that such 

 might as readily be afforded by the insert- 

 ed buds of another variety, under appro- 

 priate management. Accordingly in June, 

 1808, as the luxuriant shoots of the peach 

 trees, were grown sufficiently firm to per- 

 mit the operation, he inserted buds of 

 other varieties into them, employing two 

 distinct ligatures to hold the buds in 

 their places, the lower of which was taken 

 off as soon as the buds had attached them- 

 selves, but the other was suffered to re- 

 main, in consequence of which, the as- 

 cent of the sap was much obstructed. The 

 inserted buds began to vegetate strongly 

 in July, and when they had afforded 

 shoots about four inches long, the remain- 

 ing ligatures were taken off to permit the 

 sap to pass on; and the young shoots were 

 nailed to the wall; the wood ripened well, 

 and afforded blossoms in the succeeding 

 spring, and there was no doubt but that 

 fruit would have succeeded, had not the 

 trees been removed. 



Observations. — This is a very vaulable 

 mode of rendering productive the wild 

 and luxuriant branches of peaches and nec- 

 taines, which have hitherto generally foil- 

 ed all the art of the grardiner. — Retros. 



ON THE PRESERVATION OF TURNIPS, AND 

 THE BEST METHOD OF FEEDING HORSES 

 WITH HAY. 



By VV. N. of Norfolk, Va.-.\gricultural Mag.-No 54. 



The operation recommended for the 

 preservation of turnips, is as follows — 

 " Having drawn the turnij)S, on each side 

 of a furrow of sufficient width to admit a 

 plough and a pair of horses, gather about 

 and place the turnips previously drawn in 

 the new furrows, as close as they will 

 stand, turn the earth of the next furrow 

 upon them, and thus continue till the ridge 

 on each side is drawn off." 



To introduce economy in the consump- 

 tion of hay by horses, the writer recom- 

 mends to banish the rack from the stable 

 entirely, and to cut all the hay into chaff, 

 which, he asserts, will be a saving of one- 

 third of hay. — Retrospzct. 



DESCRIPTION OF A THRASHING MACHINE 



MADE FOR H. P. LEE, ESQ. 



Transactions of the Society of Arts, Vol. 28. 



The machine is fixed in framing, and is 

 turned by cog wheels from the great horse 

 wheel in the same manner as the ordinary 

 thrashing-mills. The cog wheel turns a 

 small pinion fixed on an axis, to which it 

 gives a very rapid revolution, and on the 

 axis of this pinion four beaters are fixed 

 and strongly framed together, each at a 

 right angle from the other, and they re- 

 volve with the axis, within a segment or 

 drum, formed of iron plates grooved or 

 ribbed, placed over the machine, and par- 

 allel to the axis. 



The corn is admitted in the usual way 

 between feeding rollers, and as the beaters 

 revolve rapidly, they strike the heads of 

 the corn upwards with such a jerk, as to 

 beat out all the corn from those ears which 

 they meet fairly, and if any escape they 

 are drawn in together with the straw, and 

 rubbed round by the beaters against the 

 inside of the ribbed drum or cylinder, 

 which is equal to about two-thirds of the 

 whole circumference so as to open the 

 ears and let out the corn, in whatever po- 

 sition the ears may come from the feeder. 



Below is grating, through which the 

 coin and chaff fall, and down which the 

 straw slides to the floor. The ribbed cyl- 

 inder is fixed to curbs of wood, adjusted 

 by screws in such a manner as to be placed 



