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grains should be gathered and the heap of ears beaten with 

 3 or 4 flails by as many men and the heap stirred and formed 

 again and again and beaten upon until separation of grains 

 from the ears is complete. Beating bunches of straw with 

 grain on boards is another clean and simple method of 

 threshing which is in vogue in some parts of this country. 

 But with the flail work is executed faster and it can be ap- 

 plied to all sorts of crops including pulses for which the 

 beating board is unsuitable. 



200. The European Handthreshers that have been found 

 useful are : (i) Mayfurth and Go's Handthresher price Rs. 

 85, exclusive of freight &c. which would come to another 50 

 (2) Ransome's Bullock-Power Thresher and (3) Rustom Proc- 

 tor and Go's Threshing machine. The first is obtainable 

 of Messrs. Mayfurth and Co. of Frankfort-on Maine, 

 Germany and it can be ordered through any local 

 European firm who deal in argicultural machinery. It 

 is used at the Nagpur Experimental Farm, where it is 

 found to thresh 3^ maunds of grain per hour. It is kept 

 working by 5 labourers. It is well-made, strong, compact 

 and simple in construction, consisting of a revolving 

 drum on which are fixed strong iron spikes which pass in 

 close proximity along a series of spikes fixed on a curved 

 plate below which the drum revolves. The straw with grain 

 is put in at the hopper or feeding board. The revolving 

 drum sucks it in. The spikes or beaters detach the grains 

 and the straw and the grain fall out at the bottom separated. 

 The space between the spikes on the drum and the spikes 

 on the surrounding plate is adjustable, so that the machine 

 can be used for separating large grains as well as small grains. 

 It does excellent work for paddy, jowar, arahar and Lablab 

 vulgarse, but it does not do so well with wheat, linseed and 

 gram. Ransome's Bullock-Power Thresher is also in use at 

 the Nagpur Farm. It does better work and much faster than 

 Mayfurth's Hand-Thresher, but it is an expensive machine. 



