¢ 6 ) 
witha iron points, 7 Th wine the teeth, and pro+ 
jecting three or four inches. 
IV. The Threshing Machine is of English inven. 
tion, and may be well enough adapted to the taste 
and circumstances of rich amateurs, but not at all to 
those of farmers in general. Our objections to it are 
three—the first cost, which is great ; the quantum of 
moving power employed, which is equal to that of six 
horses, and tiie number of hands required to attend 
it, which jis not less than four. We have seen, in | 
France, a machine for the same purpose, but of 
much simpler structure—called the “ Rouleau de 
depiquer,” which is only a fluted cylinder ; yet sim- 
ple and cheap as this was, it could not maintain itself 
against the more ancient instruments—the flail and 
the horse. Still it is to be hoped, that new experi- 
ments may succeed better and abridge the manual 
labor usually given to this branch of husbandry, 
and, that the mechanical genius of our own country 
(which is not inferior to that of any other) may be 
the first to combine power and cheapness in this ma- 
chine. 
This hope is probably suggested, by the descrip- 
tion of a new invented threshing machine, now be- 
fore me, and which I may be permitted to transcribe 
from the letter of the inventor. ‘The machine I 
have built is three feet wide. One horse will thresh, 
with much ease, as much wheat as can be laid on it 
by one man, (the straw to be taken away by an- 
other,) say, from fifty to one hundred bushels in a day, 
and the saving of grain will pay for the labor; for, 
[ think, that with good attendance, not a particle of 
