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may work motive power which it was once thought 

 preposterous in him to think of using. It threshes 

 wheat and other kinds of grain at the rate of from 

 400 to 500 bushels a day ; it conveys the straw up to 

 a platform across what we call the " great beams," where 

 it is cut into chaff and dropped into a great bay, at the 

 trifling expense of sixpence, or twelve cents, per quan- 

 tity grown on an acre ! While it is doing this in one 

 direction, it is turning machinery in another that cleans 

 and weighs the grain off into sacks ready for the 

 market. Open the doors right and left and you find 

 it at work like reason, breaking oil-cake, grinding corn 

 for the fat stock, turning the grindstone, pitching, 

 pounding, paring, rubbing, grubbing, and twisting, 

 threshing, wrestling, chopping, flopping, and hopping 

 after the manner of " The Waters of Lodore." 



The housings for live stock are most admirably con- 

 structed as well as extensive, and all the great yards 

 are well fitted for making and delivering manure. 

 I noticed here the best arrangement for feeding swine 

 that I had ever seen before, and of a very simple 

 character. Instead of revolving troughs, or those that 

 are to be pulled out like drawers to be cleaned, a long, 

 stationary one, generally of iron, extends across the 

 whole breadth of the compartment next to the feeding 

 passage. The board or picket-fence forming this end 



