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One or two women, according to the power of the machine,are stationed in the clean corn-room, to receive the grain,who riddle the deliveries into separate heaps ; all the re-fuse of the first delivery, after careful riddling, being thrownback to the second delivery ; and the refuse of the second de-livery, likewise after being carefully riddled, is laid up by it-self in a third heap. After having threshed all the grain fromthe straw, the third heap, or both the second and third, moreespecially in barley to beat oft' the awns, together with allsweepings,' are returned to the threshing-stage, and haveonce more to undergo the operation of the threshing-mill.
When the business of threshings over, a regular dressingis given to the grain in the clean corn-room, by riieans of aseparate winnowing machine driven by hand, assisted by theindustrious use of riddles, rces, and sieves, according to cir-cumstances ; and the steps of this final dressing vary accord-ing to the state in* which the grain has been delivered fromthe threshing-machine. This winnowing machine might cer-tainly admit of being driven by the gear of the threshing-ma-chine, which would save the expence of one person’s wages,and in the most perfectly constructed and powerful threshing-machines it is so. But generalIv^speaking, the motion whichis communicated in that way, can hardly admit of being near-ly so well regulated as by hand ; and every judicious husband-man, who wishes to secure at market a character for well dress-ed grain, will find it for his interest, to give the final dress-ing to bis grain, in a deliberate manner, at a time when noother circumstances call forcibly for his attention.
There cannot exist a more egregious mistake, even in re-gard to profit, than imperfect dressing ; as either the samplewill not command the price at market that would be procur-ed for perfectly dressed grain; or, if the stock, when deliver-ed, is inferior to the sample by which it was sold, disputeswill naturally arise, from the purchaser objecting to thisbreach of honesty in the seller. Imperfect dressing is a piti-ful and absurd attempt to overreach, which always redounds