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A view of some of our seventy-five Cleaning and Pea-picking Machines, all driven by electric motors. 
Number ten is familiarly called in our warehouse the “ Dreadnought,” and stands sixteen feet in 
height. 
No weed, however nimble, or light seed can possibly escape its vigilance; it is fed by an electric 
elevator, and its duties are exacting. 
In the first instance the seed travels into a large drum at the top of the machine, and is brushed by 
T.apidly revolving specially prepared lambs’ skins, all small portions of husk and earth that may adhere to 
the seeds at the time of harvesting being removed. The Seed then descends by gravitation (when all 
dirt, dust, and light seeds are drawn away by forced draught) on to sieves which, by an eccentric movement, 
take out all the “ smalls.” The whole combination is driven by a powerful electric motor, which also 
gathers the dust from and around the machine by suction, ready to be carted away and destroyed. 
The Peas are now cleaned and graded, but some are stained or injured by inclement weather or by 
the attacks of insects, which probably weakens their germination ; these must be picked out by hand. 
I'ICKING I’KAS TiV HAND. 
Seedsmen by Appointment to His Majesty the King—Pligh Hoiborn, London. 
