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._ I must confess, there is something in that Objection; for this
Plough, being something longer, may be a little the harder Draught;
and also its Weight and Strength must bear a Proportion to the Length
of it. But this small Increase of the Draught would have been a much
stronger (if not a fatal) Objection, had that Custom been general, of
Horses drawing by their Tails, as ’tis said to have been formerly in
some Places; for then, perhaps, a sufficient Strength of Horses could
not be applied to the Plough. But in Countries where Traces are in
Use, every Horse of the Team may draw the Plough equally, and then
there will be no other Inconvenience, besides the adding one Horse,
or keeping a stronger Team: And he cannot be wise, who would lose the
Profit of his Land, for the Odds of sometimes adding a Horse to his
Plough. And I am very certain, that this Plough requires a much less
Strength of Cattle to draw it in moist Weather, which is the most
proper to use it in, than to draw a common Plough in the same Ground,
and at the same Depth, in dry Weather; and can seldom be used safely
in any other. And the Vulgar, who have always a wrong Cause ready at
hand to apply to every thing, impute that Draught to the Fashion of the
Plough, which ought to be imputed to its going deeper; and this great
Depth at which ’tis capable of plowing, _viz._ Two Spit deep, is one
extraordinary Benefit of it, tho’ it may, on Occasion, go as shallow as
any.
The Draught is not so much increased by adding Three Coulters, as may
be imagined; for when the Ground is moist, the Incisions are easily
made by the Edges; and when they are cut small, the Furrows rise much
more easily upon the Share and Earth-Board, than if whole.
Farm. _If this Plough be so beneficial, having so many Advantages, and
only the Two Inconveniencies, one of requiring a little more Strength
to draw it, and the other its being unfit for dry hard Ground, I wonder
why it is not become more common?_
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