JO IMPLEMENTS. 



Forty combs rye take eight horses, at 2S. 6d. 

 Ten men, at is. 6d. each 

 Tofivcditto, at is.6(l. one day dressing 



£■ 



Rye costs more by los. 6d. 

 Forty combs wheat take eight horses 

 Ten men, at is. 6d. each 

 Five ditto to dressing 



£' 



Wheat costs more by 6d. 



^ The flails thresh mucli cleaner, as the thatching of the 

 stacks proves ; so that if this article were brought to ac- 

 count, it v/ould go much further against the mill. Nor is 

 here any thing reckoned for repairs, which have always 

 amounted to from 61. to 81. a year: to which add 5I. inte- 

 rest of capital, and the worthlessncss of bad threshing mills 

 will be sufficiently obvious. 



1802. — iVIr. Bevan has had the machine eight or ten 

 years ; and thinks the material objeft is the power of get- 

 ting out a crop to sell for seed, or to employ the men and 

 horses in a wet day ; but is clear that if he had it not, he 

 xvould not build one, unless he was certain of its threshing 

 barley cleaner than his does. 



Mr. Farrow, of Shipdam, has built one of these mills 

 on his new farm at Sayham : Mr. Wigful, of Lynn, was 

 the engineer : it is worked by four, five, or six horses, 

 requiring also three men and three women and a boy. It 

 threshes with that strength 40 combs of pease in a day ; 

 40 of oats ; 30 of barley ; and 20 of wheat ; but the 

 dressing is not more than half effedted, so that the com- 

 mon 



