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
and make an Angle with it; and then the Crank would change its Place
in the Fork at every Revolution of the Wheels; and if the Hole should
be worn very wide, and the Spindle worn much less, the Crank might let
go the Fork; but when the Wood is of this Thickness, and each Hole has
Wood in it, with its Grains pointing different ways, it would be many
Years before the Holes would become large enough for this to happen,
tho’ only wooden Wreaths were used; and as to the Two Wreaths of the
left Spindle, they may be of Wood, because tho’ that Spindle should
grow loose, it is no Damage; for it only serves to bear up that End of
the Carriage; but he that has this Sort of Brass Wreaths for the hinder
Hopper of a Wheat-drill, may take them thence, and place them upon
these Spindles, and remove them again to the Wheat-drill when that is
used; for that and the Turnep-drill are very rarely, or never, used at
the same time.
E is the Iron Crank, plac’d into the false Spindle, in the manner shewn
at H in _Fig._ 5. of _Plate_ 2. for turning the Brass Spindle by its
Fork; but take care that the End of this wooden Spindle do not approach
nearer to the End of the Brass Spindle than the Distance of half an
Inch, left, if the inner Wreath should grow loose, the wooden Spindle
might bear so hard against the Brass one, as to wrench the Seed-box
down from the Wood, and then the Seed might run out betwixt the
Seed-box and the Bottom to which it is screw’d.
When the hinder Side A is screw’d up against the Ends and middle
Pieces, then the Box describ’d, being thrust down into the Carriage,
and standing upon the describ’d Ledgers, and at that Distance from
each End of the Carriage, that the Seed may drop on the Side of the
Funnel, as is before describ’d; the Box is kept in its Place by one
Screw passing thro’ its Back, and the back Side of the Carriage.
The Notch F is cut in the Bottom of the hinder Side of the Carriage,
up to the Bottom of the Ledger, for the Convenience of seeing the Seed
drop into the Funnel.
The round Notch G is made in the Bottom of the fore Side of the
Carriage, to make room for one’s Hand to go in there, and turn the
Setting-screw without taking off the Hopper from the Standards.
This Box and Carriage, so fix’d together, compose the Turnep-hopper,
which is drawn and guided, and also holds up the Plough, by Two hollow
Pieces of Wood screw’d on to the Outside of the fore Part of the
Carriage; their Ends H and I appearing a little above the Carriage.
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