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
But, instead of turning the Plank, it would be better to have a Fourth
Hole in the Beam, standing as near to the hinder Hole as H doth to the
fore Hole; to answer which Fourth Hole, there may be Two Holes in the
Plank, one at each Side of the hinder Hole of every System at proper
Distances, to set the Plough still at more different Angles with the
Plank; and these, I believe, will be more convenient for the Purpose
than the different Holes in the fore Part of the Plank, it being easier
to remove the hinder Screw than the fore Screw; because if the Plank
and Limbers are not held up by somebody, whilst the fore Pin is out,
their Weight will wrench out the hinder Hole of the Plank by that
Screw; but whilst the hinder Screw is out, there is no need of holding
up the Plank, because its Weight, bearing upon the Beam, cannot injure
the foremost Hole, whilst the Limbers bear upon the Horse. Upon this
account, I wonder we had not made the Holes, for changing the Position
of the Beam, at the hinder Part of the Plank rather than the fore Part;
which convinces me, that new Instruments are seldom perfect in the
Beginning.
We can also alter the Standing of the Beam, by cutting away the Wood on
one Side of an Hole, and placing a Wedge on the opposite Side of the
Pin.
The Holder may make some Alteration in the Going of the Plough by the
Handles.
The Reason we never set the Beam on the right Half of the Plank is,
that the Plough always turns its Furrow towards the Right-hand; and the
strait Side of the Share and the Coulter never go so near to a Row on
the Right-hand, by the Breadth of Two Furrows, as it does to a Row on
the Left-hand.
If by the Drawing of the fore Horse or Horses, the Plough should bear
too hard upon the Thiller, it may be helped by making a Row of Holes
near the hinder Side of the Plank, for the Draw-pin, instead of those
in the Middle; for the farther backwards the Draw-pin is plac’d, the
less will the Limbers bear on the Thiller, especially when drawn by
more Horses than one; because the fore Horses draw the Limbers more
downwards than the Thiller doth, as may be seen in _Fig._ 4.
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