. An encyclopædia of agriculture : comprising the theory and practice of the valuation, transfer, laying out, improvement, and management of landed property, and of the cultivation and economy of the animal and vegetable productions of agriculture. ving with the same kind of uniformity as if driven by water. In conse-quence of which the work is better performed, and that in a very perceptible degree. 2788. Meikles water threshing-machine (Jig. 401.) is the preferable engine, when a supply of water can beobtained. The main axleor shaft («), upon which is \VJ fixed the water-wheel (6), has place
. An encyclopædia of agriculture : comprising the theory and practice of the valuation, transfer, laying out, improvement, and management of landed property, and of the cultivation and economy of the animal and vegetable productions of agriculture. ving with the same kind of uniformity as if driven by water. In conse-quence of which the work is better performed, and that in a very perceptible degree. 2788. Meikles water threshing-machine (Jig. 401.) is the preferable engine, when a supply of water can beobtained. The main axleor shaft («), upon which is \VJ fixed the water-wheel (6), has placed upon its cir-ciimfcreiicecast-metal seg-ments (c), the teeth ofwhich turn the pinionwhich is fastened on theaxle of the threshing-drum ; the platform, onwhich the unthreshed cornis spread, joins the feed-ing rollers, that conductthe corn forward to the;,j^j threshers ; next the thresh- ing-drum is the straw-shaker, driven by a leathern belt, passing over a sheeve, fixed onan iron spindle connected with the axle of the water-wheel and the sheeve on the axleof the shaker. 2789. Me&cles threshing machine to be driven by water or by four horses (Jig- 402.), isa powerful and convenient engine, as advantage may be taken of water when it is.
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