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
The Three added Coulters should stand in the same Posture with this
already described, in regard to the Inclination of their Points towards
the Left: And this is a very great Advantage to them; for by this
means, when the Fin is rais’d up, by turning the Handles towards the
Left, their Points do not rise out of the Ground on the right Hand,
as they would do without this described Inclination towards the Left;
but in regard to their Pointing forwards, I find it best, that every
one of the Three should be a little more perpendicular than that next
behind it. So the Coulter 4 stands the nearest to Perpendicular of
any of them. By this means there being more Room betwixt them above
than below, they are the more easily freed from the Turf, whenever the
Pieces, being covered with a great Quantity of Couch-grass, or the
like, rise up betwixt them: which tho’ this seldom happens, makes a
Necessity for a Man, or a Boy, to go on the Side with a forked Stick,
to push out the Turf and Grass, which might otherwise fill the Spaces
betwixt the Coulters, and raise up the Plough out of its Work.
’Tis to be observed, that none of these Coulters ought to descend so
low as the Bottom of the Share, except when you plow very shallow: ’Tis
always sufficient that they cut through the Turf, let the Plough go
never so deep in the Ground.
It is necessary also, that when you plow very shallow, the Fin of the
Share be broad enough to cut off the Fourth Piece or Furrow; else that,
lying fast, will be apt to raise up the Ground-wrist, and throw out the
Plough: But when you plow deep, the Ground-wrist will break off this
Fourth Furrow, altho’ the Fin be not broad enough to reach it.
Sometimes the First or left Furrow is apt to come through betwixt the
First Coulter and the Sheat, and so falls on the left-hand Side of
the Plough: This is no Injury; but yet it is prevented, by letting
the Second Coulter stand a little higher than the Third; and then the
Second Furrow, holding the First at its Bottom, will carry it over,
together with itself, on the right Side by the Earth-board; but yet
never set this, or any of the Three added Coulters, so high that they
may not cut through the Turf. But as for the first Coulter, tho’ it
should cut but an Inch or Two within the Ground, the Share will break
off the first Furrow in raising it up.
Remember, as often as the Point of any Coulter is worn too short,
that you drive down the Coulter with a large Hammer, carried for that
Purpose; and when it is driven low enough, fasten the Wedges again, so
as to keep the Coulters in their right Postures, that their Incisions
may be all of them equidistant.
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