Greetings! I'm in the midst of transcribing the interesting bits in an old account book - West Springfield MA farmer Ruggles Kent II 1790s-1820s - and I keep running into farming and mechanical terms that are unfamiliar. In my search for an illustration of a fanning mill I found this webpage: http://www.princetonimaging.com/library/mechanical-dictionary/subjects/index.html All you need to see the pages of this HUGE resource is the free DjVu plugin - which took just a couple of minutes to download on my dial-up connection. The plugin operates much like Adobe Acrobat Reader - no fuss. Choose the instant install and you are on your way. The agriculture index is here: http://www.princetonimaging.com/library/mechanical-dictionary/subjects/idx_agriculturalandhusbandryimplements.html It's fun just to browse old entries like Curd-cutter, Sheep-dipping and Smut-machine. :) Enjoy, Rusty Gravestone Photo of the Day http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Gravestones Old Bones Tombstone Gallery... http://www.oldbones.net/cpg/index.php?cat=10014 West Springfield, Massachusetts ~Stories Carved In Stone~ http://www.dogpondpress.net/stone.html