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 a Drill has only one Rank of Shares, we screw on the Harrow by its
Legs, to the Inside of the Two outside Sheats, as near as we can to
their fore Shoulders, leaving sufficient room for the Harrow to rise
and sink, in the same manner as when it is drawn by the Beams.
[Illustration: _Plate IV_
_Page. 378_
_B. Cole Sculps._]
CHAP. XXII.
_Of the Turnep-Drill._
_Plate_ 5. shews the whole Mounting of a Turnep-drill. _Fig._ 1. is a
Plough, but little differing from the Drill-plough last mentioned. A,
A, are the Two Limbers, differing in nothing from the other, except
that they are lighter, not being above Two Inches Diameter, behind the
Bar: They are drawn in the same manner as the other. Their Bar B is
distant from the Plank Three Inches, being shoulder’d at each End, with
a very thin flat Tenon, passing thro’ each Limber, and pinn’d on their
Outsides, as at _a a_. We do not pin in this Bar thro’ the Limbers,
lest the Holes should make these very small Limbers the weaker in that
Part. C, the Plank, Two Feet and an Inch long, Five Inches broad, and
an Inch and a quarter thick. D, D, the Two double Standards, or Two
Pair of Standards, placed into the Plank with Shoulders above, and
Tenons pinn’d underneath the Plank, and are Thirteen Inches high above
it: These serve for a Pair of Marking-wheels, when Turneps are drill’d
on the Level, to keep the Rows all parallel, and at what Distance you
please, by setting them according to the Rule already laid down.
Sometimes we place the double Standards into the Plank of the
Wheat-drill, in the same manner that these are placed.
We take off the inner Edge of each Standard at the Top, as at _b b_ and
_b b_, for the more easy Admission of the Spindle of the Marking-wheels
into the Forks: This Spindle is kept in its Place by Two of the same
sort of Wreaths, and placed in the same manner as those describ’d for
the fore Hopper of the Wheat-drill.
Such Marking-wheels are necessary for drilling upon the Level; but not
for drilling upon Ridges.
E is the Beam, Two Feet Two Inches and an half long, Four Inches broad,
and Two Inches thick: It is thus broad, that the Screws which hold on
the cross Piece F, may be farther asunder: The Screws must be placed as
near as may be to the Outsides of the Beam, and at equal Distance from
each Side of the cross Piece; by which means the Standards are kept the
firmer from Turning.
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