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 (21302897011)

Title: 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

Identifier: encyclopdiaofa01loud (find matches)

Year: 1831 (1830s)

Authors: Loudon, J. C. (John Claudius), 1783-1843

Subjects: Agriculture

Publisher: London : Printed for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green

Contributing Library: University of California Libraries

Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive

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SIJWLEMKNT. SCIENCE AND ART OF AGRICULTURE. 1311 threshed over a^ain with the unthrcshed corn. This is a very useful appendage to a threshing-mill; it takes all the refuse from the fanners, which generally accumulates about a barn floor tor is carried up by hand), whereas the elevators carry all away, and thereby leave a clean barn. The corn passes through another pair of fanners, and from thence into the corn elevator trough, and is carried from thence into the granary and thrown into the weighing machine, which is connected with an index in the barn on the partition walls facing the man at the feeding-table, which shows the quantity threshed very nearly. The machine occupies part of three floors. The water-wheel is in a house beside the barn, and in a room above the wheel is a Scotch barley-mill, and beyond it is a very complete saw mill, both driven from the same wheel, which can be detached when the threshing part is at work, and the threshing part, when the saw or barley mills are wanted. In the middle floor is an oat bruiser driven from the upright shal' : it can be put out of geer if wanted. 8111. Description. In figs 1191, 1192, 1193., a is the water-wheel, eighteen feet in diameter by four feet wide ; b, a pit wheel, eight feet in diameter, which works into a pinion, c, of fifteen inches in diameter fixed on the upright shaft; d, a bevel wheel, five feet in diameter, which turns the drum pinion, e, of nine

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inches in diameter; /, the drum, or threshing cylinder, three feet four inches in diameter outside of the beaten, and four feet and ?. half long, with four beaters turning upwards with a velocity of 3(X) revolutions per minute ; a, a bevel wheel, twenty-one inches in diameter, turning a pinion of live inches and a quarter diameter, on the axle of which is another pinion five inches in diameter, working in the face wheel,/, with two rows of teeth, one of thiitv and the other twentv-four teeth : this pinion slides along its axle into eit h< -i sets of teeth ; for instance, into the one of the smallest number if the straw is long, and into the oilier il it is

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