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248. AGRICULTURE, Threshing machine.—

I shall thank you most sincerely for
the model of the threshing machine, besides
replacing the expense of it. The threshing
out our wheat immediately after harvest being
the only preservative against the weavil in
Virginia, the service you will thereby render
that State will make you to them a second
Triptolemus.—
To Thomas Pinckney. Ford ed., vi, 214.
(Pa., 1793)