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 Piece marked _Fig._ 19. is the Opposite of the former, and to be
placed in the same manner, and as it is seen marked G in _Fig._ 15.
observing always, that the Part of it, which holds the Hopper from
moving end-ways, must always be on the Inside of the Standard; for, if
these Pieces should bear against the Outsides of the Standards, the
Hopper could have no Play upon them, nor could either of the Wheels
rise up without raising the Share (that was next to it) out of the
Ground; but, being thus placed, either Wheel may rise without the
other, and without raising the Share.
I say more of this, because it is a Point wherein young Workmen are apt
to mistake.
Thus having shewn, in _Fig._ 15. how the Hopper is guided and drawn at
the lower Part, I come next to shew how it is held and drawn at its
upper Part; for which the Piece of Wood, _Fig._ 20. being a competent
Breadth and Thickness, Four Inches long, is fixt in between the Boards
with Nails or Screws; and is H in _Fig._ 15. The Standard passing up
betwixt this and the fore Side of the Hopper, its fore Surface bearing
against this Bar, and its hinder Surface against the Hopper; so that
the Hopper may rise and sink easily upon the Standard at Top, being
in the Middle on the fore Side of the Hopper; there will be an equal
Distance of each Side, for either Wheel to rise, without the Standard
striking against the Sides of the Hopper to hinder its rising. There
is another Bar equal to this, and has the same Office, at the other
End of the Hopper, marked I. Likewise the Bar D is of the same Use with
these mentioned short Bars, and they help to strengthen one another.
When the Wheels are put on till they reach near to the Wreaths, they
will stand with their Rings, or Circles, Two Feet Three Inches asunder.
We set them as near together as conveniently we can; because when they
are too wide, they are apt to draw the Plough towards one Side of the
Ridge; and sometimes, when the Ridge is high, the Hopper might bear
upon the Funnels; and then the Wheels, being carried above the Ground,
would not turn to bring out the Seed: And that these Wheels may come
the nearer together, their Spokes are set almost perpendicular; so
that the Wheels are not concave, as other Wheels are. This Hopper is
shewn, put on upon its Standards, in its Place, in _Fig._ 21. where the
mentioned Bar D, which holds the Hopper together at Top, is seen, as
also the Four Wreaths, and likewise the hinder End of the Seed-boxes
standing over the Funnels, with their Trunks underneath them. Here also
the back Part of the fore Hopper is seen, with its Seed-box standing
over the fore Funnel: Its Mouth also is seen at A; as also the Top of
its fore Side held up by the thing (_Fig._ 22.) like the Carrier of a
Latch, with the Nails in it, which fasten it to the Top of the fore
Side of the Hopper, and give room for either of its Wheels to rise.
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