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
them, the plane Surfaces, betwixt these Two Lines and those Two pricked
Lines, shew the Bevel of the Ends of these, which are inclined to each
other upwards in an Angle of about Sixty-five Degrees.
This double Bevel effectually prevents the Seed from arching in the
Hole, before it gets into the Mortise of the Seed-box; and also, the
Two upper Edges of the Ends of the Hole being nearer together than the
lower, there is the more Wood left between these Edges and the Screws,
which hold the Box to the Bottom, whereby the Board is less apt to
split.
Then the Box being screwed on to the Bottom, and thrust again into its
Place, the Spindle, passing thro’ both the Hopper and the Box, keeps
the Bottom in its Place: Then D, in _Fig._ 13. is the imaginary Plane
of the Top or Mouth of the Hopper, being a rectangled Parallelogram,
and parallel to the Bottom, to which the fore End is perpendicular, and
a rectangled Parallelogram of the same Breadth.
_Fig._ 15. shews the fore Side of the whole hinder Hopper, with its
Two Cavities, and all its Accoutrements, except the Wheels; the Two
Ends A and B being exactly alike, having each of them its Seed-box at
the Bottom, in the same manner as in the one has been described. The
Bar D holds together the upper Parts of this double Hopper at a right
Distance, which is, when there is Ten Inches clear room betwixt the
Two single ones. The Spindle E, passing thro’ the Whole, holds the Two
single Hoppers by Four Wreaths, at the same Distance below, as they are
held by the Bar above.
These Four Wreaths are screwed on to the Spindle, to keep it from
moving towards either End, as well as to hold the Hoppers in their
Places: Two of which Wreaths are seen at _a_ and _b_; and the other Two
are placed on the Outsides, as these Two are on the Insides. Before
we proceed any farther in this Figure, it will be proper to shew the
Wreaths, which are of Two Sorts.
The one in _Fig._ 16. where A is its Hollow, which is circular, and
must be of the same Diameter with the Spindle; and, being thrust on
upon the Spindle, till it touch the Board, is fastened to the Spindle
by a small Screw thro’ each of its opposite Holes, _a b_ shews the
Breadth of this Wreath, whether it be made of Brass or Wood: It is
little more than half an Inch. _b c d_ is the Part of it that goes
against the Board: The Thickness of the Surface of this End which goes
against the Board, is a quarter of an Inch, if made with Brass; but if
with Wood, half an Inch; but the Thickness of its other End _a e f_
is less than its End _b c d_, by which means the Screws are the more
easily turned in.
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