25. YORKSHIRE. ^ot 



Straw in trufles is much better to move, lies 

 in lefs room, and retains its flavour longer 

 than loofe ftraw does. In a country where 

 cattle in winter are univerfally kept in the 

 houfe and foddered at ftated meal times, the 

 binding of ilraw becomes cflential to good 

 management. Each trufs — provincially, 

 *' fold" — contains an armful (that is, as much 

 as the arms canconvenient]y/(?/i/); and this is 

 the ufuai meal for a pair of cattle. Thus the 

 bufmefs of " foddering" is facilitated, and a 

 wafte of flraw avoided. 



2. Winnowing Under the article Imple- 

 ments, the prefcnt pradice of winnowinf 

 with the " machine-fan" was mentioned. All 

 that remains to be done here is to endeavour 

 to give fome general rule for the method of, 

 uiing it. 



Pradicc only can teach the minutijE of the 

 art, which, though here fo prevalent, is far 

 from being well underllood. The complex- 

 nefs of the machine is fuch, that labourers in 

 •general are ignorant of the means of adjuft- 

 ing it ; and let its conftru6lion be ever fo per- 

 fe6l, much depends on regulating it properly 

 for different kinds of grain, as well as in fet- 

 ting it with truth for any particular fpccies. 

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