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neighbourhood ; for barley, 6d. the general price, but yd. 

 the average now ; oats and pease, 6d. On an emergency, 

 there is a poAVer of getting corn out much quicker than 

 withuut a machine. 



Mr. Whiting, of Fring, has a large threshing-mill, 

 built by an engineer from Scotland, Mr. Fordyce. It 

 cost him 200l. ; is worked by 6 horses ; threshes 24 comb 

 of wheat in the dav, 55 of barley, and from 63 to 84 of 

 oats. It has five beaters on the drum-wheel, and the fluted 

 segment of a cylinder which covers the drum in two parts> 

 with an unfluted plate between them, which is raised or sunk 

 by a short lever; this as a guard against stones getting in. 

 In another circumstance also it is singular ; there is a long 

 platform, with a rolling cloth bottom ; the whole raised 

 or sunk at pleasure, for delivering the corn, across the 

 floor space of the barn, from the goff in which the corn 

 is stacked, to the other end in which the mill is built j 

 ■which saves much labour, and works to his satisfa6lion. 



EXPENSE OF THRES'HPNG. £^. S. d. 



Four men ; one to feed, one to hand the corn, 



two at the strawy and one to drive 

 One boy at the straw _ _ - 

 One woman - _ - _ . 



Six horses _----. 



X o & 

 Repairs have been considerable, but 10 per cent. 

 a large estimate, or 20I. : if it works 80 

 days, this is - - --050 



This may be called is. a comb for wheat, ^\^. for 

 barley, and 4d. for pease aud oats. As to its performance^ 



Mr. 



