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
To avoid these Inconveniences of wide Chanels, I contrived Trunks like
those described, except that they were but Five or Six Inches high; and
the Tops of their Plates, bending outwards from each other, form’d Two
Sides of a Funnel; and the Wood between the Two Plates, being cut bevel
at the Top, was as the fore Side of a Funnel to this Trunk: It was open
behind from Top to Bottom: The Wheels were low, and the Seed-boxes
narrow: The Seed in these Chanels was easily cover’d, especially those
Sorts which were sown in dry Weather; for then the finest Mould would
run in, and cover the Seed, as soon as the Trunks were past it.
The Seed in such a narrow Chanel comes up in a Line, where the Row not
being above a Quarter of an Inch broad, scarce any Weeds come in it;
and when the Weather is dry, the Earth of the Chanel not lying open to
be dry’d, the Seed comes up the sooner.
I had Two Reasons for making of these Trunks higher, as they are now
used: The one was, to avoid the too great Length of the Shares; and my
other Reason was, that with those low Trunks, and long Shares, there
could not be Two Ranks of Shares, and their Hoppers in the Plough,
which are necessary for making very narrow Partitions, and absolutely
necessary for planting this treble Row of Wheat; for if Three Shares
for making the Seven-inch Partitions were placed in one Rank, the Mould
(which is always moist or wet, when we plant Wheat) would be driven
before the Shares, there not being room for it to pass betwixt them.
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