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
_Resp._ Any Weather, except the Ground be so dry and hard that the
Plough cannot enter it; but it is very proper to be done, when the
Earth is so wet, that by no means it ought to be plowed with any other
Plough; for it never can be too moist for this, unless the Cattle which
draw it be mired; because, tho’ all the Cattle should not go in the
Furrow, yet their Treadings are cut so small by the Coulters, that the
Earth is not kept from dissolving, as when turned off whole in common
Tillage. ’Tis observed, that the Incisions made by the Coulters on
swerdy Land, will not heal, or so close up, but that they will open
again by the next Plowing, though it be a great while after. A Farmer
who uses this Plough, may till in all Weathers and all Seasons of
the Year, either in fallowing with this, which is best in wet, or in
stirring with the common ones, which must be done in dry Weather; and
when the Ground is broken up with this, it may be stirred in the driest
Weather that can be, without the Danger of tearing (or spaulting) up of
the under _Stratum_ along with the Staple, because this is all broken
before, and then no more can rise with it; as it does to the Ruin of
the Soil, when in common Tillage they go deeper the Second time than
the First: Also, if there be a Necessity of stirring some sort of Land
when it is wet, it ought either to be done with this Plough, or else
with a common one drawn by a single Row of Cattle treading all in the
Furrow; for tho’ some Land be very fine, yet, when plowed by a double
Row of Cattle in wet Weather, it will be made into large Pieces by the
Treading, and perhaps not dissolve again in a long time: Therefore it
is better to be prevented.
Farm. _I perceive this Plough lays the Foundation for all good
Husbandry; and there can be no other way to bring Land into perfect
Tilth in so short a Time, or with so little Expence. And I am
convinc’d, that no Farmer ought to be without it, who desires to be
free from the Danger of his Land being ever out of Tilth: But I have
heard it objected, that it is harder to draw than the common Ploughs;
and that its Beam being longer, upon account of the Four Coulters, it
lies farther behind, and comes harder after the Horses._
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