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avoirdupois of oatmeal makes a breakfast for eight reapers; ditto for supper, 

 milk, more or less abundant, but never less than one English pint ; if milk not in 

 sufficient quantity, an English pint of small beer, which cost in 1790, £1. is. now, 

 1803, £2. 4^. per hogshead ; dinner, a loaf of mixed flour, viz. one bushel of oat- 

 meal and two bushels of wheat flour (all the wheat is grinded down) which is baked 

 into nine dozen of loaves, and weigh each twenty-two ounces avoirdupois ; one 

 loaf to each person. The rent of the garden is always two, and generally three 

 hens, called Kain fowls. The labourers are hired by the year, wet and dry, that 

 is, constant employ and pay, at one price for the year, as marked in the paper. 



A hind, that is, a married ploughman, in 1790, his wages were 54 bushels of 

 oats, 15 bushels of barley, 6 bushels of pease, a cow's feed summer and winter ; a 

 reaper, Kain fowls, and the carriage of coals as above; now, 1804, one quarter 

 more of corn. 



Generally the threshing corn was by lot, that is, the twenty-fifth quarter; this rule 

 held for every species of corn ; now we have threshing mills by water, where a fall 

 can be found, a few by wind, most commonly by horses. A six-horse power mill 

 will thresh easily from six to eight quarters of wheat in the hour, but the horses 

 must walk four miles in the hour to give sufficient velocity and impetus to do the 

 work well, any inequality in the motion makes very unclean threshing. 



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