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 the Beam is screwed up at B and F, and makes the same Angles with
the Plank, as the pricked Line _b c_ doth; then the Draw-pin standing
in the Hole 8 or 9, will bring the Plough so much to the Left, that the
Share will point too much towards the Right; then remove the fore End
of the Beam to the Hole D, and then the Beam will make the same Angle
with the Plank as the pricked Line _c d_, which may bring the Share to
be parallel to the Horse-path nearly enough: But if the Draw-pin should
be placed in the Hole 1. then the Plank would go so much on the Right
of the Horse-path, that the Share would point vastly too much towards
the Left, standing in either of these Two Positions: Therefore the
foremost Pin must be removed to the Hole E, and then the Beam being
at the same Angles with the Plank as the pricked Line _f g_, it may be
parallel to the Horse-path, or so nearly, that by removing the Draw-pin
one Hole, it may be made perfectly so.
_Note_, That tho’ here are but Nine Holes for the Draw-pin; yet we
usually make many more in our Planks: And sometimes by changing the
Draw-pin either Way into another Hole, tho’ that Hole be but an Inch
distant from the former, the Share is brought right without any
Inconvenience.
The Holes A and C have each of them their opposite Holes, which (when
the Beam is placed into either of the Two) have the same Effect, for
keeping the Share parallel to the Horse-path, as the Hole B and its
Three opposite Holes have; and if either of the Holes belonging to A,
B, or C, should not bring the Beam sufficiently oblique to the Plank,
for the Share to be parallel to the Horse-path, when the Draw-pin is
in some one particular Hole, then there may be another Hole bored
before, on the Right or Left, for the fore Pin to pass thro’ by the
Hole H of the Beam _Fig._ 2. which will incline the Beam a little
more to the Right or Left, as occasion requires; and if none of all
these be sufficient, the Plank may be turned the other Side upwards;
and the Beam being fastened there by the hinder Screw into any one of
those Holes, which were next to the fore Edge of the Plank before it
was reversed, there may be a new Set of Holes to answer the fore Pin,
of which that which was an hinder Hole before the Plank was reversed,
may be one. These may set the Beam at different Angles from any of the
first Holes; so that there may be at one End of the Plank Six Systems
of Holes, Three on the one Side, and Three on the other; and if we have
a mind to make yet more various Positions of the Plough, we may turn
the Plank, End for End, and there make Six different Systems of Holes.
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