Horse-hoeing husbandry : $b or, an essay on the principles of vegetation and tillage. Designed to introduce a new method of culture; whereby the produce of land will be increased, and the usual expence lessened. Together with accurate descriptions and cuts of the instruments employed in it.Tull, Jethro
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Horse-hoeing husbandry : $b or, an essay on the principles of vegetation and tillage. Designed to introduce a new method of culture; whereby the produce of land will be increased, and the usual expence lessened. Together with accurate descriptions and cuts of the instruments employed in it.
Tull, Jethro
Agriculture -- Early works to 1800; Plows; Tillage
This _Index_ may be also useful for discovering Pretenders by an
Examination, without which, Gentlemen are liable to be imposed on by
them, as I am afraid too many have been; for amongst all those who
have undertaken the Management of my Scheme for Noblemen, or others,
I declare I do not know one Person that sufficiently understands
it: There may be some who have seen, or perhaps performed, some of
the mechanical Part; but I don’t think it can be properly performed
without a thorough Knowlege of the Principles, which cannot be
expected of such illiterate Persons; and yet is necessary for the
proper Applications in different Cases, which cannot be distinguished
by Pretenders: Therefore, until the Scheme becomes common, the
Management must be under the Direction of the Master himself, or of
one who has past his Examination, and is faithful.
To the above Trials, I here add the following, together with some
Alterations of the former.
Gentlemen who can get the _Smyrna_ Wheat, I advise to make Trials of
it in single Rows, of between 17 and 18 to an Acre, in this Method;
there being no Partitions, the Intervals will be of the same Width as
in the Ridges of 14 to an Acre, that have Partitions of Ten Inches.
Thus almost all the Earth of the Ridges may be pulverized by the
Hoe-plough in the Field, or by the Spade in this Trial; and very
little Hand-work will be necessary for cleansing out the Weeds that
come in the Rows, and on each side of them. The Land will be the
fitter for a succeeding Crop of Wheat with less Harrowing. But this
must be observed, that, in regard to hard Frosts in Winter, and very
dry Weather in Summer, the alternate Hoeing described in the Chapter
of Turneps may be proper; lest the little Earth that may be left for
the Row to stand on, when the Furrows are turned from both Sides of
it, should not be sufficient to secure the Roots from the Injuries
that may happen to them by being exposed either to Frost or Drought
on both Sides of the Row at the same time.
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