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Practical Agriculture. 
Messrs. 
Tuxford's 
machinery on 
Lord Bate- 
man's farm. 
in Lincolnshire ; the Duke of Cleveland, the Duke of Northunr 
berland, the Earl of Tankerville, Lord Vernon, Earl Cathcar 
Colonel Kingscote, M.P., the Marquis of Exeter, Earl Spencei 
Earl Powis, the Duke of Portland, and a great number of otht 
landowners. 
The arrangement of apparatus adapted for threshing, dressing 
grinding or crushing corn ; for raising straw into stacks ( 
chambers ; for the conversion of straw into fodder or litter ; f( 
cutting and pulping roots, and mixing and steaming food ; fc 
crushing oilcake, pumping water, sawing timber, chumin| 
crushing apples for cider, and other mechanical operations i 
which steam-power has taken the place of horse and manu 
labour, may be exemplified by reference to two or three of the: 
farm-steadings. i 
On Lord Bateman's Uphampton Farm (as described i\ 
Mr. J. Bailey Denton's ' Farm Homesteads of England ') tl 
corn is stacked upon low iron trucks, which can be moved c 
tramways having a slight inclination towards a covered sh( 
adjoining the threshing-machine ; and the stack to be thresht 
is moved bodily under this shed, where the sheaves are pitchi 
on to the machine, A 12-horse-power fixed engine drives tv 
ranges of shafting at different heights ; the lower range beii 
driven by a belt from the 8-feet diameter fly-wheel, and the upp 
shaft by a rigger of 3 feet diameter on the engine crank-sha 
The straw for the machine is elevated by a " straw climber " in 
the roof over the machine chamber, there to be cut into litter ai 
afterwards carried forward for a distance of about 70 feet ov 
the straw-barn by means of a ' litter-creeper ; ' openings at i 
tervals along the bottom of the trough allowing the cut litter 
be deposited at any part of the length of the barn for being co 
veniently thrown out to the stock. A straw-carrier above t 
litter-carrier bears the straw forward, to be similarly dropp 
through the floor when it is not required to be cut into litt 
The grain, cavings, and chaff are separated by a series 
riddles and a fan under the box straw-shakers and drum, t 
chaff is deposited on one side of the machine, the cavings 
the other ; the grain is elevated, passed through a white-coa 
and barley-awner, and then through a dressing-machine a 
blower. It is delivered into a self-acting sacking apparatus, whi 
weighs each sackful and rings a call-bell for an attendant 
remove the full bag and place an empty one in its place : or t 
finished corn is carried by a worm elevator to the granary. 
In the root-house on the ground floor, a root-washer, a turn: 
cutter, a pulper, and a grindstone are driven like the threshii 
machine, from the lower shaft. In the mixing-house is 
