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 fore Part of the foremost Hole being equal with the Back of the
Sheat, the Beam being cut thro’; so that the Back of the Sheat, and the
fore Part of the Hole thro’ the Beam, and the fore Part of this Hole,
make one plain Surface, whereby the Seed that falls into this foremost
Hole, descends to the Ground, near the Back of the Sheat, thro’ the
Trunk.
And the Seed which falls into the hinder Hole, is convey’d obliquely
backwards thro’ Part of the Beam, by a short thin Brass Spout, whose
Diameter in the Inside is somewhat more than half an Inch; but the fore
Part of it, which divides the Two Holes, descends first perpendicularly
half an Inch, and then turns off backwards, and there the Spout begins
to be round: Its joining is on its hinder Part, to the end that the
Seed, never running upon it, cannot be stopp’d by it. The lower End of
this Spout ends at the lower Surface of the Beam, a little behind the
Plates of the Trunk, which Hole is seen at _a_ in _Fig._ 4. where this
Hole delivers the Seed down into the Spout A, when it is drawn up into
its Place by the String B drawn thro’ the Hole at _b_ in the End of the
Beam, and there tied until it stand in the Posture in which it is seen
at _f_ in _Fig._ 1.
The Shape of this Spout is better seen at _Fig._ 5. where A is the
Spout, Four Inches long, a full Inch Diameter in the Inside: Its lower
End is circular; but its upper End B is cut at oblique Angles, so that
when it is drawn up to its Place, its Edges will touch the lower
Surface of the Beam, and inclose the lower End of the other Spout
within it: It is made of thin hammer’d Brass (as is the other). The
Edges of the Piece of Brass, which make this Spout, are join’d on its
hinder Part, for the same Reason that they are so in the other Spout.
At _b_ there is a Jag cut in one of these Edges, and rais’d upwards, by
which Jag the String being tied on the Spout just below, is hindered
from slipping upwards.
Joining to the highest Part, and made with Part of the same Piece of
Brass, turn’d back from the End of the Spout, is its Hinge C, near
Three quarters of an Inch long in its Hollow.
D is a thin Piece of Iron, half an Inch broad, and a little longer than
the Top of the Sheat, by which the Spout is held up: This Piece of
Iron is riveted by a Rivet passing thro’ an Hole at _c_, and thro’ the
Sheat, just before the Trunk, and thro’ another Piece of Iron on the
opposite Side; both the Pieces of Iron, with their upper Edges touching
the Beam, being thus riveted to the Sheat.
The Spout is pinned in by the Screw E, passing as by the prick’d Line F
thro’ the Hole G, and also thro’ the Hinge C, and screw’d into the Hole
of the opposite Piece of Iron, corresponding with the Hole G; and then
it will appear as in _Fig._ 4.
Instead of these Pieces of Iron, we sometimes use Pieces of Wood, a
little broader and thicker, nail’d on the Sheat.
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