Kalm's account of his visit to England : on his way to America in 1748 / translated by Joseph Lucas ; with two maps and several illustrations.

  • Pehr Kalm
Date:
1892
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Credit: Kalm's account of his visit to England : on his way to America in 1748 / translated by Joseph Lucas ; with two maps and several illustrations. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    turned round. It lies also with each end of its axle-tree in a post with a liole cut in the top of it, en uti ändan upgräfven Stålpe. To each of the outer longitudinal outer-bars of the frame, långträn, which lie parallel with the axis, there is fastened a foursided cloth, either of coarse linen or wool, which hangs downwards. When the machine is turned round, these cloths, which are four in number, produce a strong wind. The thrashed corn, together with the chaff, agnarne, lies in a coarse sieve or “ riddle,” rissel, which either stands upon a trestle, trä-ställning, or hangs by ropes. This riddle is placed between the winnowing-machine and the barn- door, logdören. Thereupon one earl begins to turn the machine round, and another to jog, stöta, the sieve backwards and forwards, when the strong wind which comes from the cloths drives the chaff, which together with the grain falls from the sieve, out to and through the lodge-door ; but the grain falls down, the more so the heavier it is, in a perpendieular hne. Afterwards the grain is sifted and winnowed or fanned once more till it is clean. The faster the machine is turned round the stronger is the wind it produces. Anmärkningar vid några delar af hushållningen nti Essex. Notes on some branclies of Rural Economy in Essex. Several of the farmers here kept a large number of cows, from which they got very much milk. I have before [T. I. p. 365*] mentioned that the women nevei went out to milkj but that this office was always performed by the earls, who went out into the pastures where the cattle were kept, morning and evening, and milked, and aftei- wards carried home the milk from thence, when it was taken from tliem by the girls, pigan, who siled it 111 winter in wooden vessels, träbunkar, but 111 summer in
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