. 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. very similar in its general construction to that first described, except that it is not movable; which, from its magnitud
. 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. very similar in its general construction to that first described, except that it is not movable; which, from its magnitude, would be inconvenient, and is unnecessary for either hay or chaff, &c. Now of the mode of working it In the loft above, immediately over the man-lid, e, is placed a chaff-cutter, and also a bean and oat bruiser, which both discharge by separate hoppers into the cylinder. The end lid having been put on and cottered up steam-tight, the vessel is thus filled with the desired material, which is 6pread uniformly with a fork through the man-lid. Steam is then turned on ; and, when the operation is com- plete, the end lid is loosed and thrown up by the aid of the counterbalance above the cylinder end, and the contents drawn out by forks, or by a large but light and slender instrument like the worm of the ramrod of a gun. Before being used the first time, the inside of this vessel is given a coat of drying oil, and copal varnish mixed, which prevents subsequent oxidation. The general intent of the whole of the apparatus is to save labour and fuel, which it does effectually; and that portion of it for cooking potatoes is now about being erected in the new gaol of Mayo, the largest in Ireland. In some few cases, where the extent of the apparatus would be very great, and labour dear, it might be advisable to connect a small steam-engine with it, working from the same boiler, to pump water, slice turnips and mangold wurtzel, cut chaff, and bruise oats and beans, &c. Where a hig
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