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opened and fpread the fheaves j turned 

 them when requifite, and threw off the 

 flraw when fufficiently thrafhed. Four men 

 kept continually thrafhing. 



In another, the oats were carried from the 

 field to a grafs inclofure, and Hacked in a 

 place convenient for the expenditure of the 

 draw. In this cafe the floor was a circle of 

 clofe-paflured greenfward ; about ten yards 

 diameter ; the opened iheavcs being fpread 

 in a ring with their heads toward the center; 

 eight or ten thrafhers treading this ring with a 

 flow pace. One fide fufficiently thrafhed, 

 the other was turned uppermoft, and the 

 draw at length (hook off the circle. Wo- 

 men were employed at the floor, while two 

 men {lacked the ftraw as it was thrown off; 

 and while others were employed on the op* 

 pofite fide of the ring, in winnowing the oats 

 with a machine-fan, 



In a third, the oats were carried immedi- 

 ately out of the harveft-ficJ'd to the thrafli- 

 ing-floor, without a previous (lacking. In. 

 this cafe alfo the floor was a ring of green- 

 fward ; beaten firm and fmooth with flails 

 Before any corn was laid upon it. Thewafte 

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