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Six men stacking straw.
Three men, horses and wagons, to haul away wheat.
In all twenty-eight men, eight horses, two oxen, and five wagons. You will observe that the largest part of this force must have been employed in any mode of threshing. The machine, and three men to attend it, are furnished for 5 cents a bushel threshed. The consumption of wood is about 1 1/4 cord per day, at $2 50 per cord. The price of farm labor now is $1 00 per day and board.

I timed the work of the machine, and found that is threshed two bushels per minute, when in active operation, but as there are necessarily many delays and stoppages, a day's work does not equal this. Between 7 and 11 A. M. the machine threshed three hundred and six bushels which is the work of sixty men for the same time. I think this machine will thresh, on an average, seven hundred bushels per day. This is the work of seventy men in the old way of threshing my flail. There is here then the saving of forty-two men, deducting the number now employed. But this is not the most important point of view. To thresh this wheat at once and be ready for the market, is the great point for the owner.
I asked the proprietor of the machine if he had work enough. He said much more than he could do. He was to go next to Colonel Allen's, who had 170 acres of wheat, and then he mentioned tow others of two hundred acres each, and then another of 500 acres. Here we have nearly 1500 acres of wheat in the hands of five proprietors! This is not one of the great wheat counties, but you will see how it counts up this year. If the corn crop be (as it now promises) a heavy crop, the two countries of Ross and Pickaway will produce over eight millions of bushels of grain; and that cannot be paralleled by any other two countries adjacent, in the United States.
From what I have said the manufacturers of Cincinnati may take a hint. They saw very early that the world wanted stoves and mills, but they have not been quite as quick to see that the world will soon have agricultural machinery. The demand for it is immense, and will increase every day. The Country of Pickaway now employs over three hundred and fifty mowers and reapers. Some of the interior countries have now great manufacturing establishments for this machinery; and I would not detract from them. But soon we shall have a demand for steam threshers, steam plows, and even steam wagons. There is room for a great increase of manufactures in these departments. The world does not stand still, and the practical arts of men are bound to advance far beyond our utmost dreams. E.D.M.

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