31. He also marketed chopping and threshing machines . 32. Further, early sentences by magistrates against the rioters, even those who destroyed threshing machines , were fairly light. 33. Sure the mosquitos are so big they breed with threshing machines , but they're gone by late August. 34. In 1889, the A . B . Farquhar Company began building threshing machines and other farm machinery. 35. Gates then took the money from this labor and bought a half interest in a threshing machine . 36. The farming population s burden of work was greatly lightened when the municipality acquired a steam-powered threshing machine . 37. The final straw was the introduction of horse-powered threshing machines , which could do the work of many men. 38. In addition to their namesake threshing machines , this company was also a prolific producer of steam traction engines. 39. Horse powered threshing machines were rare. 40. It contained several feed stores, two bullock yards with fountains, a flax mill, cider press and threshing machine .