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fior&es three weeks : succeeded by winter tares, and tliesc 

 bv summer tares. 



STEAM-ENGINE. 



IVIr. GoocH, of QuidJcnliam, in Norfolk, having a 

 water-mill which was sbmetimes unemployed for want of 

 water, eredted a steam-engine contiguous, at the expenic 

 of about 500I. The stove which heats the boiler, is so 

 contrived as to burn coal to coke for his malt-house. Oi^e 

 man attends both the engine and the cinder oven. It was, 

 in the drought of 1800, of singular use to the whole 

 country, for wind and water having both failed in a great 

 measure, corn was brought from ten miles distance, to be 

 ground by this engine : he has two pair of stones to tlic 

 water-wheel, and two pair to the engine. The power, 

 that of twelve horses. 



The hist steam-engine ere6led in Norfolk for inerely 

 agricultural purposes, and, for what I know, in England, 

 is one now ere6iing at Haydon, by Colonel Buller. 

 He has coniradled for the sum of 6ooI. it is to do the 

 work of ten horses; to work a threshing-mill that shall 

 thresh and dress six lasts a day : it is to grind com also, 

 and cut straw ^ to grind nine bushels of wheat with one 

 bushel of good Newcastle coals, of 841b. weight, and this 

 with all the other works going on at the same time : the 

 Colonel to find timber. Last year his hay and straw cut- 

 ting cost above 70I. therefore little doubt can be entertained 

 of the plan answering. 



Under the head Implements, I must not conclude vvith- 

 oul mentioning a person of most extraordinary mechanical 

 talents. Mr. Jex, a young blacksmith at Billingford, at 16 

 years of age, having heard that tliere was such a machine 

 as a way-meas>urer, he refiedicd by what machinery 

 the result could be prodixed, and set to work to con- 

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