> 
20-1848.) THE! AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 497 
to which an irregular motion was given bya cam- threshed. The straw, as it is. delivered from the 
wheel, or tappet, on the spindle. The corn and feeding board, passes over the drum, between it and 
chaff dropped tht, ad were thus separated the concave, and is thrown with the grain which has 
from the straw. This machine was completed in been threshed out of it, on the shakers, by which 
7g Si) $ oth 
o BE LET ON LEAS! PARABLE FARMS, 
_ within 4 miles of Harwich, in the county of Essex. 
— Á ND FA in the pa: f Dorer-coast, con- 
AaS roen of Arabia Thad ig pest aarti, with a 
9d and substantial Farm-house and all necessary Farm 
y 11 To be entered upon next Micha mae 2K the year 1753. the two are separated from one an er. 
— he parish o am 2 4 
s Janes ager Ie Land e gustity, with a good it td to the most zeneral dimensions of 
Farm. bouse and all necessary F Buildings. To be entered SMA e, r varies from 3 to 6 feet in 
5 : : 
3. THE RAL ISLAND FARM, in the parish of Ramsey, r e 
: 88 acres H 2 
zent quality, some of it being alluvial and capable of great ei i i that of | stand from 3 to 6 inches out from its surface r 
n FFT granted p to that time, been | section being rectangular, the beating surface is 
Ander certain ‘conditions.—To view these Farms, apply to Mr. This machine consisted of a fluted drum necessarily radial, 7. e., were it produced it woul 
n e ware . or cylinder, around which, at intervals, were a pass through the axis. The feeding board also is 
e Wich S 5 m 8 Pe a bs 3 ™ 
rab of occupation, apply to Mr. Joux Morton, Whitfield, | series of fluted rollers, kept close pressed to the directed towards the axis—it also is radial. : 
u 
circumference of the m by springs. The corn axis 
being passed through these, was rubbed out of the | Th e corn, as it is 
straw. It was, however, injured by the process, passed through the rollers, receives blows exactly 
and frequently bruised, and the machine was, there- | at right angles to its position. 
fore, laid aside, The E 
I 
Berkeley, loucestershir 
RDAY, JULY 22, 1848. 
€ MEETINGS FOR THE TWO FOLLOWING WEEKS. 
2 — daly 2 Society of England. 
r 
— r =" 3 Meeting of. the, Highland Society at 
1 Crurs.—July 28: Stranraer.— August 5: Newcastle, Durham, 
The Agricultural Gazette. 
7 SATURDAY, J 
„Ax DRT]W MerLe, of East Lothian, 
turned his attention to the subject. His first effort 
was an improvement on the first machine 
from this; the principle of its action indeed is the 
ints 
LELY 
threshing machine, the drum is generall 
may be well before the period of another 0 ons i he too, is 
harvest, so far to resume our articles on Acricut- pt | generally dropped vertically on it without the inte: 
TURAL Mecuanics as to describe the machines to ntion of feeding rollers, and around the cylinder 
be employed in threshing it ou from | a wire grating concentric with it is placed, throu 
The present most common form of the THRESHING ch eat portion of the corn is e 
b centrifugal force induced the velocity of its 
] 
| which answered the purpose so well that machines separated from it. There is enerally no shaker ; 
Which terminated in its invention. The want of an constructed from it soon became general. The first | the straw is removed from the machine by the hand, 
imp! sho rapidly and efficient] near | and the corn shaken out of it b ; 
Separate the corn from the straw was much felt in In the Scotch machine the corn and the straw, 
after the i iven to agricultural im- perfectly mingled together, require, it is 
y the establishment of the Highland e | evident, a complete shaking to se m. Thi 
ic Society e slowness of the opera- om the construction o * in common use 
uon of the flail was then so generally complained little from the original, as invented by Mr. Merzer, | in Scotland, they do not get; indeed in many e 
of, that when at length a good threshing machi ei it has ore i i 
it may be as well to describe its present, without 
was constructed, it obtained universal adoption in a 
. short time. i 
In the trials made at intervals by mechanics an 
i eceded th 
sa 
We must, however, in the first place mention that | the flail. The shaker consists of two sparen cylin- 
several threshing machines have been constructed | drical frames, to which rakes are attached. Th 
i i i inders move in different directions, and the straw 
e | is accordingly carried under one and over the other. 
t is by the fi i 
others, which 
machine, several principles, di 
c 
into the same hopper, which is be 
] remarks. Mr, hat on | These it is evident, do not possess t 
the ears as the process to be effected by their m inci hine, but | gularity of motion which alone aal entitle them to 
i ich / diffe it i 1 | be called shakers, and much corn is thrown out with 
e straw, 
se This description of the cylinder and shaker refers 
the straw, but it was the extreme slowness of the seed they w è i fiy and ef to the essential parts of the machine; 
it à, . 
aion at compla ere are besides them, in à complete machine, 
efore, natural that in the firs th us most machines are furnis od 
structa threshing mac e, reg e had a cylinder with winnowers attached to the U Which t é 
e to increase the spe i nd the corn delivered partly 
nature of its work. In the machin left; and in | cleaned, and from the first riddle o > winnowin, 
Menzies, of Edinburgh, i i achine there are frequently elevators which lit 
were Lig ched to an 180 by the revolution of whi Whatever will not and carry it 
rapi ce 0 s i so to undergo another threshing, 
which corn was spread out hese then may be e origi 5 
ine was soon aban are still the most common forms of the threshin 
Were not found to answer their i urpose. by one horse was capable | machines, Others have been invented since, an 
The next machine, invented are in limited use, and we shall refer to them upon 
Dunblane, Perthshire, did no another occasion. ant 
ia principle gi which this had acted, but t : ten EXPERIMENTAL F ‘ARMS? eer 
Whi e iv Se 
The corn to — — F “Spape’’ has again called attention to what 1 believe 
on 2 floor to receive the blows. the only means by whi Ireland brought into 
series of springs rested.: Th state o perity (Agricultural Gazette, pp. 324 and 
10 feet Jong, and fixed 412, 1848). As adv culture for these 
were at we” and fixed firmly a 20 or 30 years in Ireland, I must rejoice in finding a 
abe at the r end successively raise Spade; if he origi 
chinery s Spade;” a he can originate 
1111 Ae 3 vement in support of . in al. Tan be 
„ e US a series of blows was promote it in Ireland. I am not 
bone 4 slight convinced of its practicability and its suitabl. H 
n, perfectly satisfied of its paying, 
to superintend a farm on hand labour principles, 
subseribers eight per cent per annum 
We do in Ireland to employ 50 men on 
00 acres of land, all we want is to find employment for 
every 12 acres, and this would 
ir as are of | at 
will enable them to live comfortably ; I 
first year it would enable me to give 
ore. 
riment would be found to prove that 
h y be used on a farm, that | ers 
receive wages so remunerative as to enable them 
