. An encyclopædia of agriculture [electronic resource] : comprising the theory and practice of the valuation, transfer, laying out, improvement, and management of landed property, and the cultivation and economy of the animal and vegetable productions of agriculture, including all the latest improvements, a general history of agriculture in all countries, and a statistical view of its present state, with suggestions for its future progress in the British Isles. Agriculture. 676 PRACTICE OF AGRICULTURE. Part III. runner, is fixed (or ought to be, though it is frequently wanting) a cogged wheel
. An encyclopædia of agriculture [electronic resource] : comprising the theory and practice of the valuation, transfer, laying out, improvement, and management of landed property, and the cultivation and economy of the animal and vegetable productions of agriculture, including all the latest improvements, a general history of agriculture in all countries, and a statistical view of its present state, with suggestions for its future progress in the British Isles. Agriculture. 676 PRACTICE OF AGRICULTURE. Part III. runner, is fixed (or ought to be, though it is frequently wanting) a cogged wheel working in a circle of cogs, fixed upon the bed of the mill. 4142. The diameter of the vheel is determined by the height of the axis above the bed of the mill; the diameter of the ring of cogs, by the distance of the wheel from the centre of motion. The use of cog wheels is to prevent the runner from sliding, to which it is liable when the mill is lull; the matter, when nearly ground, rising up in a body before the stone. Besides, by assisting the rotatory motion of the stone, it renders the work more easy to the horse. These wheels require to be made with great exact- ness ; and in a country where carpenters are unaccustomed to them, a millwright should be employetl in fixing them. The mill is placed so as to leave a horse-path, about three feet wide, between the bed and the walls ; so that a moderately sized mill, with its horse-path, takes up a space of fourteen or fifteen feet every way. 4143. A cider-7nill in use in the south of France [fig. 604.) is worked on a circular platform of boards, and instead of stone the wheel or conical roller (n) is of cast-iron. The fruit is spread thinly over the platform, and the roller moved round by one man or a woman. From the roller's covering more breadth than the narrow bark wheels in in England, more fruit is crushed in a short time by this sort of mill than would at first sight be supposed 4144. An eligible description of mill
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