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
Between these Rows of Turneps[77], I have planted Wheat in this Manner;
_viz._ About _Michaelmas_, the Turneps being full grown, I plow’d a
Ridge in the Middle of each of their Intervals, taking most of the
Earth from the Turneps, leaving only just enough to keep them alive;
and on this Ridge drill’d my Crop of Wheat[78], and towards the Spring
pull’d up my Turneps, and carried them off for Cattle.
[77] As I have formerly drilled Wheat between Rows of Turneps, so I
have since had the Experience of drilling Turneps between Rows of
Barley and Rows of Oats: I have had them in the Intervals between
Six-feet Ridges, and between Four-feet Ridges, and between those of
several intermediate Distances; but which of them all is the best,
I leave at present undetermined. I shall only add, that the poorer
the Land is, the wider the Intervals ought to be; and that, in the
narrow, ’tis convenient at the Hoeing, to leave more Earth on that
Side of each Interval whereon the Turneps are to be drill’d; and this
is done by going round several Intervals with the Hoe-Plough, without
going forwards and backwards in each immediately: But in the wide
Intervals the Earth may be equal on both Sides of them.
I will propose another Method of Drilling, which may be very
advantageous to those who sow their Barley upon the Level, and sow
Turnep-seed amongst it, at Random, as they do Clover; which is, of
late, a common Practice in some Places. The Barley keeps the Turneps
under it, and stints them so much, that they are useful in the Winter
or Spring, chiefly by the Food their _Leaves_ afford to Sheep, their
Roots being exceeding small; and for this small Profit they lose the
Time of tilling the Ground, until after the Turneps are eaten off;
which is a Damage we think greater than the Profit of such Turneps;
To prevent which Damage, they may drill them in Rows at competent
Distances, and Horse-hoe them, and set them out as soon as the Barley
is off: This will both keep the Ground in Tilth, fit for another
Crop of Spring Corn, and cause the Turneps to grow great enough
(especially if Harvest be early, and the Winter prove favourable)
for feeding of Sheep in a moveable Fold to dung the Ground into the
Bargain.
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