A 
electric 
view of some of our seventy-five Cleaning and 
motors. 
Pea-picking Machines, all 
driven by 
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 rapidly 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. 
Picking Garden Peas by Hand. 
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