April'] TAKING OUT LARCH SEEDS, &C. 329 



of common fanners. The cones are let into the 

 mill by a hopper. This inftrument is very difficult 

 to work, and very much bruifes the feeds j many 

 of which are of courfe deftroyed. 



We have feveral times made ufe of the common 

 improved Bark* mill, for feparating the feeds from 

 Larch fir cones ; but the cones are thus fo much 

 comprefled and bruifed, that the feeds fuffer ex- 

 ceedingly, and we would by no means advife it : 

 Indeed, among all the methods which we have 

 known adopted, to perform the painful and la- 

 borious work of extracting the feeds of the Larch, 

 the plan of fplitting them fingly, as above faid, 

 is infinitely the befl and fafeft for the feeds, and 

 ought to be adopted by every one who has occa- 

 fion to ufe only fmall quantities of feed. None 

 of the other kinds of cones require fo much 

 labour as the Larch, excepting perhaps thpfe of 

 the Cedar of Lebanon. 



Cones, which have given out all their feeds, 

 are generally, and very properly, ufed as fuel for 

 drying other cones. This fort of fuel, however, 

 requires the attention of a very fteady feeder. In- 

 deed, the moft careful and attentive are apt to fet 

 the full or drying cones on fire, from the refinous 

 nature, and tendency to flame, of the empty cones 

 ufed as fuel. Such kilns fhould, therefore, be 

 erected in fituations far removed from a danger- 

 ous neighbourhood. 



The cones of Scots Fir, the Larch, and the 



Spruce, 



