. British husbandry; exhibiting the farming practice in various parts of the United Kingdom. Agriculture; cbk. 204 BRITISH HUSBANDRY. [Ch. XIV. BARLEY HUMMELLING. The process to wliich tliis more particularly alludes is in some places called " fattering," and many machines have heen invented to effect it. Some of these have been attached to the tiirasliing machine, and are simultaneously driven by the same power; they act as scutchers, with arms fixed to a vertical spindle enclosed within a cylinder, and the corn being put in at the top of the cylinder, which is kept in rapid motion,
. British husbandry; exhibiting the farming practice in various parts of the United Kingdom. Agriculture; cbk. 204 BRITISH HUSBANDRY. [Ch. XIV. BARLEY HUMMELLING. The process to wliich tliis more particularly alludes is in some places called " fattering," and many machines have heen invented to effect it. Some of these have been attached to the tiirasliing machine, and are simultaneously driven by the same power; they act as scutchers, with arms fixed to a vertical spindle enclosed within a cylinder, and the corn being put in at the top of the cylinder, which is kept in rapid motion, the awns are broken off by their impulse*. They do not, however, answer the purpose so completely as could be wished ; for if the straw be damp, or mixed with clover and grasses, it is apt to choke up the cxlinder, by adhering to it as it turns round. We therefore annex a description of one lately invented by Messrs. Grant, of Granton in Aberdeenshire, which has been brought before the Highland Society, and will probably be found to perform the work more perfectly than it has been liitherto done, as it is certified to have given satisfaction to several persons by whom it has been used; and, being moveable, it can be put aside when other corn comes to be This machine, when viewed externally—as mfig. 1—consists of a nearly square box, thirty inches on the side at the base, twenty inches at the smaller end, and four feet in length. In the interior of the l)Ox, the two lower angles are filled uj) with wood, so as to form the half cf a conical surface; while the two upper angles are left void, but their surface is thickly studded with iron Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Burke, John French. London Baldwin and Cradock
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