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 Harrow is pinned on to the Beam by the Iron Pin, _Fig._ 9. passing
thro’ the Hole of the Leg at _g_, and thro’ the Beam, and also thro’
the other Leg on the other Side of the Beam, where the Screw at the End
of the Pin has a Nut screw’d on it. This Pin is round from its Head all
the Way thro’ the first Harrow-leg, and thro’ the Beam; but all that
Part of the Pin, which is in that Leg against which the Nut is screw’d,
must be square; whereby that Part being bigger than the round Part of
the Pin, and than the Hole in the last-mention’d Leg, cannot turn in
the Hole of that Leg; for if it did, the Nut would be soon unscrew’d
by the Motion of the Harrow; but the Pin must have room to turn in the
other Leg, and in the Beam. This square Part of the Pin is seen at _a_,
_Fig._ 9. The whole Length of the Pin, from its Head to the End of the
square Part at _a_, where the Screw begins, is of the Thickness of the
Two Legs, and of the Breadth of the Beam.
We sometimes set the Legs of the Harrow Two Inches wider asunder,
by making them each an Inch thicker at their fore Ends in their
Inside, and reaching Five or Six Inches behind their Iron Pin: These
thicker Parts, bearing against the Beam, keep the hinder Part of each
Harrow-leg an Inch distant from the Sides of the Beam, whereby the
Harrow-legs are Six Inches asunder, instead of Four, by means of these
added Thicknesses.
When a Drill is taken up to be turn’d, the Person that does it, takes
hold of the Harrow-head, and lifts it up: The Legs of the Harrow,
bearing against the cross Piece, support the whole Weight of the Drill.
When the Harrow does not go deep enough, we tie a Stone upon the Middle
of the Harrow-head, by a String that passes thro’ the Holes at _h_. All
the Wood of this Plough and Harrow is Ash, except the Limbers.
The Hopper of the Turnep-drill is very different from those already
described. It consists of a Box placed into the Middle of a Carriage;
which Box is described in all its Parts, lying open with their Insides
upwards in _Fig._ 10. A is the fore Side of the Box, Five Inches and an
half deep, and Six Inches and an half long. B, the hinder Side of the
Box, opposite to the former, and of equal Dimensions.
Each End of the Box is made with Three Pieces of Board, of which C the
uppermost is Three Inches and a quarter deep, and Five Inches long;
which Length is the Breadth of the Inside of the Box. The End of the
Piece C, when in its Place, stands against the prick’d Line _a b_ in
the fore Side A; the other End standing against the prick’d Lines in B,
which is opposite to, and corresponds with, the prick’d Line _a b_; the
fore Side, and hinder Side, being screw’d to the Ends of this Piece by
Four Screws.
The Piece D is Two Inches and a quarter broad, and of the same Length
with the Piece C, and screw’d up to the Bottom of it with Two Screws,
and then its End will bear against the prick’d Line _b c_, and that
which is opposite to it in the Side B.
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