40: AGRICULTURAL SURVEY

The extra charge of two ſhillings per day for every day's work of different kinds of corn,&c. thraſhed by the mill, for winnowing, is a charge that belongs to the mill,

For the thrafher that thraſhes the corn with the fail, either by the ſcore or quarter, is always an aſſiſtant hand to the win- nowing, without any additional charge on the corn thraſhed.

Improvements on the thraſhing mill to be made. The firſt of theſe I am under with my null, for I have a man now making models to my own direion for caſt iron wheels, with four diferent rows of coggs in every wheel, for to either quicken or flower the motion of the rollers that draw the corn in from the man that feeds it off the feeding board; for although the mill thraſhes all kinds of corn,&c. perfeAly clean, Ict the corn be good or bad to thraſh, as the motion of the rollers are now fixed, it all gets thraſhed alike.

2dly. Gaining power in the horſe wheel, which will quicken the motion of the ſpor wheel, and eaſe friction from the horſes.

Zdly. Small friction wheels for the cylinder to work of.

4thly. To have canvas fixed upon rollers, to draw the corn in more regularly.

5thly. Stones to be fixed to grind corn.

vthly. To cut ftraw.—7thly, to waſh clothes.—8thly, to churn, and pump water.

Now the ten pounds per year, that appears to be ſaved by the

mill towards paying of the principal, as a farmer I do not mean it for that purpoſe, nor to deprive the labourer ſo much of his employ, but am happy in finding myſelf ſo ſituated as to get my corn ten per cent, cleaner thraſhed, and with ſo much diſpatch, and in ſo little time that I can take my labourers to any buſineſs the farm may require, ſuch as pruning fences, cloſe or open draining; and ſo much caſh that is ſaved by thraſhing, laid out yearly in the employ of labourers for that uſe on the farm, will pay me fifty per cent. better, and improve the farm more than keeping one man ten months in the year batting* in the barn, or even to half the time, and thraſhing with the fail. There is not one labourer in twenty but what would rather do any labour on the farm, than thraſh; and if he thraſhes it clean,

* Batting, a provincial phraſe for thraſhing.

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