Portable Threshing Machine. Mail Coach. 7S 



The Koval Oak is a small village, not ge- 

 nc'iully appearing in the maps, with a very 

 clean neat inn, the master of which has a farm 

 of some extent. In his farm-shed was a port- 

 able threshing machine, by means of which 

 much of his crops had already been threshed 

 out j but the straw was so neglected as to prove 

 of how little value it was in his estimation. In 

 those parts where the worth of manure is ac- 

 curately understood, even the loss of straw re- 

 quisite for thatching is a consideration of in- 

 finite regret. 



Ploughing is better performed in this district 

 than in most we have seen ; and though I can- 

 not compliment, I must acknowledge to have 

 seen a considerable improvement in the hus- 

 bandry of this part of the country ; but not an 

 acre of green crop have we beheld since those 

 we noticed of Sir H. Flood's. We passed several 

 gentlemen's seats ; land lets from three to five 

 pounds the customary acre, about forty-five shil- 

 lings the statute acre, exclusive of the tithes. 

 How few districts are there in England where 

 the rents are so high ! 



Whilst at breakfast, a mail-coach stopped to 

 change horses : the apparent neatness and good 

 style of these vehicles are most creditable; 



