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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

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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.

Name: 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.
Author: Tull, Jethro

Tull, Jethro

Agriculture -- Early works to 1800; Plows; Tillage

This fore Hopper may easily be described by the Figure of a Box, like
the other already described, at its Ends, which are of the same Shape
with the Inside of the Box, _Fig._ 12. but much lower, being Seven
Inches and an half deep, and Sixteen Inches long; and the Breadth of
its Bottom is determined by the Length of the Seed-box, and a little
wider at Top, on account of the Bevel which poises it: It carries no
more Seed than one End of the hinder Hopper; but it is capable of
holding more; but we do not fill it quite, lest some of the Seed should
fly over in jolting, its Mouth being so much longer than the other.

This Hopper is kept in its Place, from moving end-ways upon the
Spindle, by a Wreath fixed to the Spindle at each End of the Box, in
the same manner as has been described for holding the other Hopper. The
Wreaths most proper for this Purpose are the Sort described in _Fig._
17. but the other Sort described in _Fig._ 16. and even made with Wood,
will suffice; but then we must take care to make the Hole at the End
of the Hopper of a considerable Thickness, that it may not wear the
Spindle, which, by reason of its great Length, is the more liable to
bend, and be cut by the Edges of the Holes; which Cutting cannot be
prevented but by the Thickness of the Holes, or by such Wreaths as that
of _Fig._ 17.

We sometimes make this Hopper exactly like a common Box, without any
Part of its Ends descending below the Bottom; and, in that Case, we
place a narrower Piece of Board at each End of the Hopper, like that of
_Fig._ 23. in which Figure, the Hole A being put on upon the Spindle,
the Piece of Board is fastened on by a Screw and Nut thro’ the Hole
B, near the Top of the End of the Hopper, and by another Screw and
Nut thro’ the Hole C, near the Bottom of the Hopper. Another such a
Piece of Board, fixed on in the same manner to the opposite End of the
Hopper, holds this long Hopper parallel to its Spindle, that passes
thro’ the Holes of these Two Pieces, and thro’ the Brass Seed-box,
which is fixed up to the Bottom, in the Middle betwixt them.

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Science

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

This fore Hopper may easily be described by the Figure of a Box, like
the other already described, at its Ends, which are of the same Shape
with the Inside of the Box, _Fig._ 12. but much lower, being Seven
Inches and an half deep, and Sixteen Inches long; and the Breadth of
its Bottom is determined by the Length of the Seed-box, and a little
wider at Top, on account of the Bevel which poises it: It carries no
more Seed than one End of the hinder Hopper; but it is capable of
holding more; but we do not fill it quite, lest some of the Seed should
fly over in jolting, its Mouth being so much longer than the other.

This Hopper is kept in its Place, from moving end-ways upon the
Spindle, by a Wreath fixed to the Spindle at each End of the Box, in
the same manner as has been described for holding the other Hopper. The
Wreaths most proper for this Purpose are the Sort described in _Fig._
17. but the other Sort described in _Fig._ 16. and even made with Wood,
will suffice; but then we must take care to make the Hole at the End
of the Hopper of a considerable Thickness, that it may not wear the
Spindle, which, by reason of its great Length, is the more liable to
bend, and be cut by the Edges of the Holes; which Cutting cannot be
prevented but by the Thickness of the Holes, or by such Wreaths as that
of _Fig._ 17.

We sometimes make this Hopper exactly like a common Box, without any
Part of its Ends descending below the Bottom; and, in that Case, we
place a narrower Piece of Board at each End of the Hopper, like that of
_Fig._ 23. in which Figure, the Hole A being put on upon the Spindle,
the Piece of Board is fastened on by a Screw and Nut thro’ the Hole
B, near the Top of the End of the Hopper, and by another Screw and
Nut thro’ the Hole C, near the Bottom of the Hopper. Another such a
Piece of Board, fixed on in the same manner to the opposite End of the
Hopper, holds this long Hopper parallel to its Spindle, that passes
thro’ the Holes of these Two Pieces, and thro’ the Brass Seed-box,
which is fixed up to the Bottom, in the Middle betwixt them.

Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.

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.

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.

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