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Winnowzang machines have been in general uſe for up» wards of 25 years. They are fitted to clean all ſorts of corns. It 15 believed that their conſtrution admits of no farther improvement. The price 1s from L. 2 to L. 3.

FARMERS SERVANTZS.

Servants in ſome places are vidualled in their maſters houſes; and have for wages from L. 5 to L. 105 a year; the average may be about L. 7, 108. But in general an allow- ance 15 made of two pecks(174 1b. Averd.) cf oat-meal, and 6d. of money per week: the ſervants cook their own viduals, the maſters finding them coals and utenfils. Ser- vants when married have cottages of their own; oat-meal, E money, tc. are allowed them; and they. cook their vic- tuals in their own houſes.=--A few farmers have their whole work done by day-labourers, who receive their pay weekly, at the rate:of from gd. to 15d. a day. Some kinds of work, as turning of compoſt dunghills, threſhing and other jobs, are done by the piece. The moſt attentive farmers encourage labourers to work by the, piece, as this mode of ſervice 1s thought to excite emulation among la- bourers, and thereby both the employers and workmen are SAaIners,*

LIVE STOCK.

Horſes. The beſt horſes for the draught are bought from the counties of Lanark and Ayr. The farmers in this County, about 30 or 40 years ago, bred more horſes than at preſent. They were of a ſmaller fize than 1s now approved of; and, as it was the univerſal cuſtom to yoke not leſs than four hoxsſes in a plough, the colts and fillies, which F 2 were