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times be neceſſary to draw the wheel along every furrow. When the land is without ridge and furrow the wheel muſt be drawn over it in párallel lines, five or ten yards diſtant from each other. The wheel on the contrary end of the axle is a common fix-inch wheel, ſupporting only the empty ſide of the cart, conſequently it will not cut the ground.

The advantage of this contrivance is, that it makes an indent in the ſoil ſutficient to carry of the water during that winter by preſſing down the herbage, but without deſtroying it. In the following ſpring theſe drains will be nearly grown up, andclothed with graſs, ſo that there will be nothing taken from the paſturage on the ſcythe. It is, perhaps, neceſſary to obſerve that the wheel muſt be drawn over the ground every year on the approach of win- ter. With it, and two old horſes, one fout boy or man may drain from ten to twenty-acres in eight hours. The expence will vary from threepence to ſixpence an acre, according, to the price of labour, and the number of cuts to be made on each acre.

1 am, Sir, yours reſpe@fully,

A May 19, 1801. JOHN MIDDLETON.

Lo LARE ST e MR. TUNSTALL, ON THRESHING-MACHINES. Te the Editor of the Commercial and Agricultural Magazine.

SIR»,

QNEE the inſertion of my letter in your Magazine, I have re- ceived numerous inguiries, which give me pleaſure to find

your publication ſo eſteemed and uſeful: ſome further information,

therefore, may intereſt ſeveral of your readers, and perhaps be

welcome to the public; as you promiſed more communications

on the Threſhing-Machine, if attainable; and the encouragement

it meets with, keeps attention alert.

In reply to page 2. No. xii. July 1800. There is no difficulty in applying a horſe-wheel to the handy machine you deſcribe, There is no difficulty at leaſt for my machine, or to give it ſuffi- cient ſtability whilit at work, by braces or ſtays to or from the horſe-wheel, or the beams or other places to be met with in a barn or chamber. You obſerve, it is coſtly to feed ſwine with wheat: that is demonſtrated, when I aſſure you, two pennyworth of raw(25s. per thrave) contains on an average two ounces of good wheat, when threſhed by a flail.

After my machine, the fraw may be cut for fodder with the chaff-cutter, inſtead of being only fit for litter, from many ma- chines, which cattle are not inclined to eat.

In No. xüi. p. 93. The Eſſex farmer bas my hearty wiſhes for the ſucceſs of the machine he propoſes to introduce. If the plan he was promiſedanſwers, I am convinced he bas experienced, that the year 1800 has been a yielding year of wheat. As to the creditan ar- tificer may reap from ecedting a machine for zol, or 401 it appears

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