Valley of the Upper Wabash, Indiana, With Hints On Its Agricultural Advantages; Plan of a Dwelling, Estimates of Cultivation, And Notices of Labor-Saving Machines
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With a powerful team, two of the machines can be united, and a corresponding increase of work insured. 6. Brittain's Flax-breaking Machine. — Same inventor as before. This machine costs $300, and will break 3,000 pounds of stem, when rotted, daily. The whole expense attending the breaking this amount is four dollars and fifty cents, including the wages of one man, four boys, and coal needed for the machine : or it may be estimated at the rate of .$3 per each two thou- sand pounds. The quantity ...broke daily makes 1 ,000 pounds of dressed flax. The usual price of rotted flax, ready for the break, is $15 per ton ; of unrotted, $12. 7. Hussey's Corn-shelling Machine. — The in- vention of Mr. Obed Hussey, of Cambridge, Maryland. This machine costs $30, and performs the double operation of husking and shelling at the same time. It is also immaterial in what position the corn is presented. 105 In this machine fifty bushels of dry harvested corn can be husked and shelled per hour, or five hundred bushels in ten hours.
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