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TOon machine is necessary to finish it, by which a mail 

 snd woman will dress 60 combs a day. It threshes all 

 grain very clean ; barley as well as the rest ; and in a ye?r 

 and quarter's nearly constant work, has not demanded any 

 repairs. Yet upon the whole Mr. F. is not well satisfied 

 •with it. On examination, I found it very aukwardly 

 placed; the delivery of the corn is in too confined a space, 

 close to a wall, so that men must attend to take it away ; 

 the straw is thrown out against a door into a yard, 

 when it cannot all be wanted, and no sufficient receptacle 

 fordiechafF: the appearance is as if the machine was 

 hooked into a building, and not the building raised for the 

 machine. One is never to see an end to ill adapted farm 

 buildings. 



Mr. Goocrf, of QuidJenham, has a thresh ing-miU 

 built by BuRREL, of Thetford. It works with two 

 horses; and tlireshes all sorts of grain to his satisfatflione 

 barley included. 



Mr. Reeves, of Heverland, has a threshing-mill, 

 which is, I think, nearer to perfection than any other I 

 have seen : it is made by Mr. Assby, of BIyborough, in 

 Suffolk ; works with two or three horses, and cost 100 

 guineas. I found it at work, threshing oats: it does for 

 barley, as well as for any other grain, threshing 32 combs 

 in a day, of 7I hours; more of oats; 40 of pease, and 

 30 of wheat : its day's work of wheat, threshed the day 

 before 1 was there, was 31 combs, standing sacked in the 

 barn. It varies considerably in the beating-drum cylinder 

 from the others [ have seen, it being of a much larger 

 diameter, and has 11 beaters. Mr. Reeves is perfed^iy 

 well satisfied with it ; and the men all agreed that it does 

 the work much better than the flail. It has had no repairs 

 in the threshing one crop ; nor does he, from the simpli- 



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