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bfeSi Szc, mufl: be at a great diftance from fome 

 of the fields : therefore the produce mud be 

 brought a great way, and the manure carried 

 back as far. One fhepherd, indeed, would do 

 for the whole fo far as relates to fheep : but 

 the leading of manure, the going to and from 

 plough, carrying the harveft, &c. are attended 

 with both lofs of time and expcncc. 



It may be objeded, that the thrafhing m.a-^ 

 chine of the large kind, which faves fo much 

 time and money, will not fuit a farm of fmall 

 extent. But I am of opinion, from the nature 

 of the machine, that it may be conftrucled up- 

 on a fmaller fcale, and at much lefs expence, 

 and worked with only one horfc. This will 

 fave the wages of one perfon ; fcr one horfe 

 will work without a driver j but two do not : 

 and to attend and feed the machine, which re- 

 quires no exertion of ftrength, and may rather 

 be confidered as wholefome exercife than toil, 

 I would employ women, children and the in- 

 firm : and thus the very people who are at pre* 

 fent maintained by parilh-pay, might thralh all 

 the corn the land produces. 



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