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
These Limbers should approach so near together at their fore Parts,
near the Chain, that there may be none or very little room betwixt the
Limbers and the Horse; and therefore must be nearer together for a very
little Horse than for a great one: The Horse, which I have used in all
my Drills for these many Years past, is a little one, about Thirteen
Hands high; and the fore Part of my Drill-limbers are Twenty Inches
wide asunder at the Chain.
At _g_ on the Outside of the Limber G, is a small Staple driven in,
having one Link on it, which holds a small Hook, which, taking hold of
different Links of the very small Chain I, raises or sinks the fore
Part of the Plough to different Heights. But take care to set it at
such a Degree, that the fore and hinder Share may go equally deep in
the Ground; and when they do so, the fore Part of the Limbers ought to
be higher than the Traces which draw them.
At _h_ in the Limber H, is driven another Staple, which holds the
other End of the Chain; or else, instead of a Chain, we may make use
of a Piece of Cord, one End of which put thro’ this Staple, and ty’d
to the Limber, and a Piece of Chain of half a dozen Links, fasten’d to
the other End of such a Cord, will serve as well as a whole Chain, for
raising and sinking the Limbers.
He who can by these Directions make this Wheat-drill, may very easily
make any other Sort of Drill, for planting any Sort of Corn, or other
Seeds that are near about the Bigness of Seeds of Corn: He may make it
with a single Row of Sheats, by placing as many of these fore Sheats as
he pleases in the Plank, which maybe longer or shorter, as he thinks
fit; and he may add a Beam betwixt every Two of them, with a Sheat in
it, like these hinder Sheats; and then the Drill will be double, having
Two Ranks of Shares. But I must advise him never to make a Drill with
more Shares than will be contain’d in Four Feet Breadth, that is, from
the outermost on the right Hand, to the outermost on the left Hand; for
should the Drill be broader, some of the Shares might pass over hollow
Places of the Ground without reaching them, and then the Seed falling
on the Ground would be uncover’d in such low Places.
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