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
When Ground is harrow’d the last time before it is to be drill’d, we
contrive that the Harrows may not go directly towards the same Point
that the Drill is to go, lest the Track of the Marking-wheel should be
exactly parallel with the Track of the Harrow-tines, which might make
it difficult to distinguish the Track of the Wheel from that of the
Harrow-tine.
He that has not a great Quantity of Ground to plant with St. Foin, and
does not plant it betwixt Rows of Corn, will have occasion for no other
Drill than this Wheat-drill, describ’d in _Fig._ 21. He may plant his
Rows at Fifteen Inches asunder, by the hinder Hopper, and its Shares,
without removing them, the fore Hopper being taken off; or else you may
plant Three Rows at Sixteen Inches asunder, by setting the Beams, and
their Seed-boxes and Hoppers, at Thirty-two Inches asunder instead of
Fifteen, equidistant from the fore Share: and then the Marking-wheels,
which are those of the fore Spindle, must be Eight Feet asunder; to
wit, double to the Spaces of the Three Shares, which are Three times
Sixteen Inches (or Four Feet); or you may set the Two hinder Beams,
_&c._ at what Distance you please, setting the Marking-wheels to
correspond with them; but then the Harrow must be alter’d, and both
its Legs and Tines must change their Places in the Head, the Legs for
guiding it exactly, and the Tines to follow in all the Three Rows,
which will require a third Tine to be added in the Middle, between the
other Two. But without any other Alteration than that of taking off
the fore Hopper, and that of lessening the Seed-passages of the hinder
Hopper by the Setting-screws; my Man planted me several Acres of St.
Foin with my Wheat-drill Two Years ago, the Rows being all Fourteen
Inches asunder: It is now an extraordinary good Crop.
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