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This Field-threlhing requires extraordinary fine. 

 Sun-(hiny Weather, which forne Summers do not 

 afford at the Seafon, for threfhing a great Quantity 

 of it i for 'tis but a fmall Part of the Day in which 

 the Sztd can be th re hYd clean out. They who have 

 a fmall Quantity of it, do carry it into a Barn early 

 in the Morning, or even in the Night j whilfl the 

 Dew is on it •, for then the Seed (ticks fad to the Ear ; 

 As it dries, they threih it out; and if they cure it 

 Hgllj have thus fometirties good Seed, but generally 

 the Flay is fpoii'd. 



There is one Method of faving all the Seed good, 

 and the Hay too, by carrying it unthrefh'd to the 

 Barn or Rick, in a particular Manner, tho' it be a 

 great Quantity, more than can prefently be threuYd ; 

 but muff, be laid up in Mows or Ricks, as Corn is. 

 Then if it be carry'd in, in the Dews or Damp, the 

 Hay is fureto be fpoii'd, if not both Hay and Seed: 

 When 'tis taken up dry, the Seed comes out with a 

 Touch, and the greater: Part is loft in pitching up 

 the Cocks, binding and jolting in carrying home. 



To avoid this Dilemma, a Perfon who happen'd 

 to have a great Crop of Seed on One hundred and 

 Fifty Acres together (and being by Weather delay'd 

 3 tiil Wheat-harveft came on, fo that mod Labourers 

 went to Reaping) was fore'd to a Contrivance of 

 getting it in as follows; viz Three Waggons had 

 each a Board with an Hole in, fix'd crofs the Middle 

 of each Waggon, by Iron Pins, to the Top of the 

 Rades or Sides: There was a Crane which a Man 

 could lift, and fee into the Hole in the Board, and, 

 having an Iron Gudgeon at the Bottom, which went 

 into a Socket in the Bottom of the Waggon, would 

 furn quite round *. The Pofb of the Crane was Ten 

 peet Four Inches long, its Arm Four Fcqi Eight 

 Inches long, brae'd ♦, having a treble Pulley at the 

 End of it, and another tQ anfvyer it with an Hook, 



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