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 Standards G and H are both alike, except as they are opposite:
Their Use is to draw, guide, and hold up the hinder Hopper: They are to
be placed perpendicular to the Beams, and at equal Distance from each
Side of those Beams, and at such a Distance before the Funnels, that
when the fore Side of the Hopper by its whole Length bears against the
hinder Surface of the Standards, the Seed may drop into the Middle of
both Funnels, the Plough standing upon an horizontal Surface.
Be sure to take care, that the Sheats, Funnels, and Standards, be so
placed, that the Spindle of the Hopper may be at right Angles with the
Beams.
Q and R Part of the Limbers, which are also called Shafts, Sharps, and
Thills; from whence the Horse that goes in them is call’d a Thiller.
These Limbers are screw’d down to the Plank, by Two Screws and Nuts
each. The Limbers are kept at their due Distance by the Bar S; near
each End of which Bar, there is a Staple with a Crook underneath each
Limber, to which is hitch’d, or fastened, a Link of each Trace, for
drawing the Plough. This Bar is parallel to the Plank, and Seven Inches
and an half before its fore Edge.
The Limbers must be mounted higher or lower at their fore Ends,
according to the Height of the Horse that draws in them; and this may
be done by the Screws that hold them to the Plank, and by cutting away
the Wood at the Two hinder Screws, or at the Two foremost Screws, or by
Wedges.
Every Workman knows how to team the Limbers; that is, to place them
so on the Plank, that the Path of the Horse, which goes in the Middle
betwixt them, may be parallel to all the Shares, and so that a Line,
drawn in the Middle of this Path, might fall into a strait Line with
the fore Share, standing on the same even Surface with the Path; for
otherwise the Plough will not follow directly after the Horse, but will
incline to one Side.
The Use of the Trunks of this Plough is for makeing the Chanels narrow,
of whatsoever Depth they are: But, without Trunks, the Chanels must
be made wide by Ground-wrists, which spread the Sides of the Chanels
wide asunder, to the end that they may lie open for receiving of the
Seed; and the deeper they are, the wider they must be: By this Width
of a Chanel, the Seed in it is with more Difficulty cover’d, and the
Chanel fill’d with the largest Clods, and the Seed comes up of a great
Breadth, perhaps Three or Four Inches wide, so that the Weeds coming
therein are hard to be gotten out.
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