. 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. abundant, and in dry seasons horses can be applied. To this machine the improveo. apparatus for yoking the horses is appe
. 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. abundant, and in dry seasons horses can be applied. To this machine the improveo. apparatus for yoking the horses is appended, and by the simple operation of varying the positions of the pinions on the common shaft (a), which communicates with the water and horse-wheel (b, c), threshing may be carried on without interruption, either with the water or the horses separately ; or a small quantity of water may be applied to assist the horses at any time, when a sufficient supply of water cannot be obtained to impel the machine alone. 2790. Meikle's threshing machine to be driven either by wind or six horses (Gray, PI. XII.) is a powerful but costly erection. On large corn farms, however, it will answer to erect such machines; and there are frequent instances in Berwickshire and Northumberland, of farmers incurring that expense on the security of twenty-one years' leases. The machinery of the wind power of this machine is fitted up with a small van to turn the large ones to face the wind, and witli the machinery necessary to roll on or oft" the sails according to its increase or diminution; by which means the naturally unsteady power of wind is rendered as regidar as that of horses or water. The threshing part of this machine contains the usual apparatus, and also a complete set of fanners and screens for cleaning the corn. To the board upon which the unthreshed grain is spread, and introduced between the feeding rollers, succeeds the drum, with the threshers, or beaters, fixed upon the extremit
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