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 (14598402537)

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Title: 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
Year: 1871 (1870s)
Authors: Loudon, J. C. (John Claudius), 1783-1843
Subjects: Agriculture -- Dictionaries
Publisher: London : Longmans, Green
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN



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SUTPLEMENT. SCIENCE AND ART OF AGRICULTURE. 1321 the machines. The clean corn passes into the elevators s ; from thence it is carried up into the granary,and delivered into the weighing machine, t, by small elevators made of sheet iron, with wooden hacksand bottoms fixed to a pitch chain, revolving round a studded wheel ten inches in diameter, and witheight studs at the upper end, and a small wooden roller at the bottom, at eleven turns per minute.
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The corn is delivered into the weighing-machine box, 1, and accumulates until there is the weight of ameasurewhen thebox turns on its axle, and the corn is emptied into the spo.it which.conveys It Intowhatever bin,, it may be wanted in. At the same time the part 2 turns up. and is (died as the other,and when fu 1 descends as the other, and so on, while the threshing is going forward : 3 is a eightwhichr slides up and down a rod fixed at right angles from the bottom of the weighing machine ifhe corn^ heavy, slide this up until it will balance a bushel of corn similar to what s to be threshed ;fli$™ slide it downwards. From the axle of this box. a small rod Proceeds to two s a wheelsbehind the index u, which turns two lingers that revolve round the face of this index , it is ngureafrom 1 to 10 For every movement the weighing bucket makes, the longest finger moves over thespace of one and for evely ten, the other finger moves one. At the end of the threshing this fingerl^f denote nrety