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worked, it will thrash between five and six quarters of 

 wheat, a- day, and more of barley or oats. Those con- 

 structed to thrash clover, as well as grain, have been found 

 to answer the purpose. My object in having one of these 

 machines is, to thrash wheat when the weather is bad, in 

 spring or summer, and to employ my men, when not 

 wanted in the field. In the winter, I shall prefer the use of 

 the flail, to get the daily necessary quantity of barley or oat 

 straw, for the cattle in the farm-yard. The machine 

 occupies only a space of five feet by three. 



Having omitted, in page 85, to refer to what I conceive 

 to be injurious to growers of corn, and also to consumers, 

 I insert it here. It is, the different measures by which corn 

 is sold, in different markets. In most of them, it is by the 

 quarter of 8 bushels, but in some places the bushel con- 

 tains 8, and in others, 9 gallons. In many markets by 

 the load, meaning in some, a man's load, of five bushels 

 in others, a horse load, of five quarters. In Norfolk, by 

 the coomb. These different measures have most likely 

 been customary from time immemorial, but this is no proof 

 that at present it is not both perplexing and injurious. All 

 the returned prices of corn are by the quarter, and there is 

 no doubt but mistakes are frequently made in calculating 

 the price from these various measures ; therefore the far- 

 mers in one part of the country are frequently misled in 

 the prices quoted from other parts. The measure should 

 be the same throughout the country, by the quarter, con- 

 taining 8 bushels, of 8 gallons each, imperial measure. 



The act which passed about three years since, to make 

 the stone of meat 141bs. throughout the kingdom, and 

 which escaped the notice of the majority of those it con- 

 cerned, has proved a dead letter. All the dealings in 

 Smithfield are by computation of stones of Slbs. for which 

 there can attach no penalty. The London prices and 

 weights will ever govern those of other places. All the 

 meat sold there, and prices returned, are by stones of Slbs. 

 It is desirable, therefore, that the act should be repealed. 

 The London butchers have now excellent times, for, 

 excepting the very coarse parts, they get a much higher 

 price for their meat than the country butchers ; and, take 

 one time with another, they buy their sheep and oxen 

 quite as cheap, if not cheaper, Most of those I have 



