1200.] The T, hreſhing Machine. Y 2 Without a horſe-wheel it iR 22 güineas; with a horſe-wheel 34 guine Probably the ſhed 5 cover the out-door work (X, B, C, D,) miaht col LINN the expence to 40 guineas. In ¡ELSE LOR Machines of this ſize have been tried with fuc- ces. They threſh out about ve ELE in ten hours; and are, therefore, quite large enough for E MES: LE Gas a Machine can be c tad portable, we ſhall announce it. We have ſeen Models of Machin es, much more complex, which winnow the corn; and even e which carry the manufa@ure to the laít ftaze, by grinding irt into flour. We ſhall be well ſatisfied‘if our. plite and d leſcription give a complete idea of the

reiíhing N only; FSE it 1s not eaſy to repreſent ſolid bodies, of an unuſual form, on paper. The moſt feaſible addi- tion we have ſeen conſiſts Sf an axis, beſet with many ſhort ſpokes, and turuiag‘ra pidly among the threſhed ſtraw. The itraw is thrown on bigh, and far from‘the Machine, and the corn falls nearer to it.“Bur, probably, a rake’is a more ŒCono- mical initrument for 5 PrP: Oſe.

: The advantages of a Threſhing Machine are very con- ſiderable. To the oa it would fave the AS expence of barn floors, which is ſo ſerious,‘that a landlord’s intereſt ought to induce him to encour‘age the uſe of theſe CS by ÜL fraying half the prime colt. The farmer ſaves much df the ex- peice of threfhing, and is ſure that his corn will be threſhed uniformly well. FT his 1s of much moment; it is coſtly to feed ſwine with wheat. The fraw is completely bruiſed by the grooves of the iron rollers, ſo that it is much more reliſhed by the cattle as fodder. On the other hand, it is ſpoiled for thatchinz, and not ſalecable in the Fore market; but the common pradice of making(what is called) reed, by ſeparating tne Cars Deore. threfhins,“obviates the frſt i inconvenience, 11k countries where houſes are thatched; and as to‘ſelling the fſraw, it is a practice which doés injuſtice to the’ farm.. An objedtion to a fixed Threſhing Machine is obvious, in that it compels to carry‘all the corn to one yard. Ln a ſcattered farm, this 1s a ferious inconvenience.

An objedtion alſo exiſts in the neceſlity(at preſent) of fetch- ing a bulky Machine from a diſtance; for no: diference, in the fir expence, can. compenſate for réal Machine. Its friGion will treble the labour: indeed, the improvements in this reſpe& are viſible already, ſince the 6 lleſt Machine we have deſcribed does more work than, at firſt, a ſix-horſe Machine performed. But as the Machine is taken to pieces, and packed in a ſmall Compaſs, the carriage is not ſo coftly as might be expeded.

An induitrious workman, of the name of Stevenſon,(foreman to the late Mr. Winlaw) has conſtructed almoſt all the Threſh- ing Machines in England, and the facility with which his laſt

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