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 Height of the Wheels in _Fig._ 2. The left-hand Wheel is Twenty
Inches Diameter; the Diameter of the right Wheel is Two Feet Three
Inches; the Distance the Wheels are set from each other at the Ground,
is Two Feet Five Inches and an half; the Crow-staves are One Foot
Eleven Inches high, from the Box to the Gallows; they both stand
perpendicular to the Box, and the Distance between the Crow-staves is
Ten Inches and an half. The Pillow is pinned up at its Ends by Two
small Iron Pins, which are chained to it, that if they drop, they may
not be lost. These appear in _Fig._ 1. and _Fig._ 2. The Height from
the level Surface, up to the Hole in the Box, where the Tow-chain
passes through it, is Thirteen Inches (being Two Inches below the Holes
of the Wilds, on the Hinder-side of the Box); the Height at the other
End, where the Crook of the Collar takes hold of the Pin in the Beam at
_c_, in _Fig._ 2. is Twenty Inches high above the same level Surface,
and shews how much the Chain descends forward, for drawing down the
Plough, and by which Descent may be known what Angle the Chain would
make with the Surface, if it were produced forwards in a strait Line;
which is a thing material for the good going of a Plough; and so is
the Angle the Tow-chain makes with the Beam: About the Middle of this
Tow-chain, there should be a Swivel, whereby one End of the Chain may
turn without the other.
When this Four coulter Plough is made, I would advise, that it be tried
with only the first Coulter, before the other Three are put in; for
if the Plough does not go well with One Coulter, it is not likely it
should go well with Four; and I never yet have seen or heard of any
that went well with One Coulter, that did not also go well with Four,
being placed as is here directed.
[Illustration: _Plate II._
_P. 307_
_B Cole Delin et Sculp_]
The Proofs of a Plough’s performing well are these; _viz._ If it makes
a Furrow of an equal Depth on the right Hand and on the left, and turns
it off fairly: If, in its going, the Tail of the Share, and the Bottom
of the Drock, bear against the Bottom of the Furrow; and if it goes
easy in the Hands of the Holder, without pressing one Arm more than the
other; then the Plough is certainly a good one.
The Ploughman who is accustom’d to a Two-wheel’d Plough, never suffers
the Wheels to overturn, in turning out at the Land’s End, from one
Furrow to another; for which Purpose, after he has lifted the Plough
a little round, he has a Knack of holding up the Crow-staves with the
End of the Beam, by pressing his Hand hard against the Handle, whilst
the Plough lies down on one Side, until the Horses, the Wheels, and the
Plough, come near to a Line in the Beginning of the Furrow; and then he
lifts up his Plough, and goes on.
CHAP. XX.
_Of the Drill-Boxes._
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