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
A is the fore Side of the Box. B the hinder Side lying down. C is the
Piece H of _Fig._ 10. which makes a sort of Shelf in the Box at its
left End. D at the right End makes another like Shelf, underneath
which, the Fork of the Brass Spindle is turn’d by the Crank in the End
of the wooden (false) Spindle. By means of these Shelves, there is
room for the Two wooden false Spindles to come the further into the
Carriage, without lessening the upper Part of the Box. E and F are the
Two Ends of the upper Part of the Box, made by the Two Pieces G and C
of _Fig._ 10. When the hinder Side B is rais’d up, and screw’d to these
Ends, the Box is complete.
We put a Lid upon this Box, which is hing’d on to its right or left
End. This Box (having the Brass Seed-box at its Bottom) is to be placed
into the Middle of a Frame or Carriage.
_Fig._ 13. shews the Inside of the Carriage lying down. A is the hinder
Side, Eighteen Inches long, Dove-tails and all, and Six Inches broad.
B the fore Side of the same Length with the hinder Side, and Eleven
Inches broad. This Five Inches greater Breadth than the hinder Part is,
because a greater Height is required on the fore Side, on account of
the Hopper’s being drawn, and the Plough held up by that and the Pieces
that must be fix’d to it. C, D, are its Two Ends, Six Inches long,
beside their Dove-tails, and Six Inches broad. E and F are Two Pieces
each Six Inches long, whose Ends are to stand against the prick’d
Lines _a b_ and _c d_ of the hinder Side, and their other Ends against
the prick’d Lines in the fore Side, which are opposite to these. The
Breadth of each of these Pieces is Four Inches: When they are in their
Places, their lower Edges come even with the Bottom of the Carriage.
Their Use is to support the Ends of the Spindles which come just
thro’ their Holes, after each of them have passed their Hole at its
respective End of the Carriage.
All this Carriage is made of Board full half-inch thick; The Ends C and
D are made of double Thickness by another Piece of Board added to each,
that covers all their Insides, except their Dove-tails. These Boards
with which they are lin’d, are nail’d to them, with their Grain going a
different Way, and crossing the Grain of the Board at the End, either
at right or oblique Angles. This prevents the Holes from splitting out,
and makes the Holes of a double Thickness; whereby the Spindle is the
less worn by them, in case there are no Brass Wreaths to enter them.
The middle Pieces E and F are lin’d by their whole Surfaces, in the
same Manner as the Insides of the Ends are lin’d.
When these Ends and middle Pieces are in their Places, a wooden
Cylinder, of the exact Diameter of the Holes, is thrust thro’ all Four,
to hold them exactly true, whilst the Ends and middle Pieces are all
screw’d fast into their Places.
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