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 Manner of making the Hole _i_ is as follows: Place the Seed-box
with its fore End at _e_, and hinder End at _f_, with the Base of its
Cylinder (or great Hole) against this added Piece of Board, and its
upper Edge exactly the Height of the Edge _e f_; then, with a Pair of
Compasses put thro’ the Cylinder of the Seed-box, mark round the inner
Edge of its Base upon the added Board; then take off the Seed-box, and
find the Centre of the mark’d Circle; and then with a Tool call’d a
Centre-bit, of the right Size, bore the Hole quite thro’ the double
Board; and this Hole will be in the right Place, and of the same
Diameter with the Spindle; but in case there is to be a Brass Wreath
on that Part of the Spindle which is to turn in this Hole, then the
Hole must be bor’d of the same Diameter with that Part of the Wreath
which is to enter it; and that may be perhaps near a quarter of an Inch
longer than the Diameter of the Spindle, upon which it is fastened.
This End A, thus bor’d and shap’d, is a Pattern for its Opposite, and
for the other Two Opposites of the other Cavity, which holds the Seed
at the other End of the Hopper.
When the Opposite of A (with the Two Posts whereto the fore Side B, and
the hinder Side C, are nail’d, and having a like Piece of Board in its
lower Part with a like Hole in it) is added, and when the Bottom (Four
Inches broad), with its Seed-box under it, is thrust in at f by the
prick’d Lines, until it reach _e_, bearing on one Side upon the Piece
of Board _e f g h_, and the other Edge of the Bottom bearing in like
manner upon the opposite Piece, then this Cavity of the Hopper, which
will contain about Two Gallons of Seeds, will be finish’d.
_Note_, The Bottom must make a right Angle with the Two fore Posts,
having the Side B perpendicular to it.
D is a Part of the Board which comes out farther than the Hopper, in
order to hold a Bar at _k_; which being fastened there, and in like
manner to the Opposite of this Board, this Bar bearing against the fore
Part of the Standard, the Hopper and its Wheels are in part drawn by it.
Into the Notch _l_ is fastened one End of a long Bar, which passes
the whole Length of the Hopper, and holds the upper Part of its Two
Cavities in their Places, as is seen mark’d D, in _Fig._ 15.
E is Part of the Board which comes before the Hopper, and whereto one
End of a Piece of Wood is fastened by Nails or Screws, which bearing
against the fore Part of the Standard, and against its Inside, the
Hopper is in part drawn and guided by it, as shall be shewn in _Fig._
15.
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