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The machine will require five pair of hands 

 to work it. But let not the farmer be alarmed 

 at the number of hands mentioned ; for one 

 woman and four children will eafily work one 

 upon a middling fcale. 



The method is as follows : One takes the 



fheaf from the mow ; another unties, fpreads, 



and lays it on a place proper for the third per- 



fon, whofe bufinefs it is to feed the machine. 



This third perfon muft be a fteady one. A 



fourth takes away the flraw. Fifthly, a boy to 



drive the horfe : but when the horfe becomes 



ufed to his work, a driver will be unneceflary. 



Be the fize of the farm more or lefs, there are 



almoft always horfes to be fpared for work of 



this kind, which may be fo contrived as to be 



done at a leifure time. But fuppofing the 



farm fo large as to employ a machine worked 



with five horfes -, it is highly probable that on 



fuch a farm there may be brood-mares, kept 



folely for the purpofe of breeding: it would 



be good economy to ufe fuch mares when the 



foals are taken from them, which is ufually 



done in the thrafhing-feafon. Such a practice 



would encourage the breeding of horfes ; and 



the mares fo ufed would raife their foals well, 



and lofe no time. 



But 



