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taHf and cuts them with a horfc hoc, 

 without a mold board, into rows, 1 4 inches 

 alunder, then with hand-hoes he fets them 

 out into fquares of 14 inches, and after 

 that, with a double mold board plough, 

 earths them up, and finds the crop much 



Conditions. 



1. This machine fhall, in ten hours, worked by one 

 iiorfe (with a boy to drive, and a man to feed the 

 machine, clear ofFthe ftraw, &c.) fairly tHrefh as mudi 

 corn as what is ufually eftimated the work of eight 

 men for that time, in the common way of two threfh- 

 ing together, 



2. In order that this machine may be both lafting 

 and generally ufeful, the inventor engages as follows : 

 3 ft, That all its parts fhall conlift of good materials, 

 which fhall be duly proportioned to their various ufes. 

 2d]y5 That the whole procefs of feparating the grain 

 from the ftraw, fliall be rendered fo plain and eafy, that 

 a common labourer may be trufted with the full ma- 

 Jiagemcnt of it. 3dly, That the conftru£lion fhall be 

 fuch as may be contained, and conveniently worked 

 within a common barn, with the addition only of a 

 fmall hovel againft one fide of it. 



3. A trial of one of thefe machines is intended to be 

 et Belford aforefaid, before all, or as many of the fub- 

 fcribers as can attend, within one month after fifty 

 ■fubfcriptions are completed, of which particular notice 

 will be given. 



4. If at this trial it is fully proved, that the machine 

 anfwers the conditions before mentioned, and fecurity 

 is given, that each fubfcriber fhall in his turn (accord- 

 ing to the method the fubfcribers appoint for diftributing 

 them) have a machine delivered to him, or order, at 



^dford^ every way as good as the trial machine ; each 

 of the fubfcribers fhall then pay the fum of 5 /. in part 

 of 42/. the full conftderation-money for one com- 

 plete 



