. An encyclopædia of agriculture : comprising the theory and practice of the valuation, transfer, laying out, improvement, and management of landed property, and of the cultivation and economy of the animal and vegetable productions of agriculture. ess andaccuracy. {J. C. R. near Alnwick.) 2689. The Northumberlandone-row turnip drill (Jig. 346.)has two wheels which run in the hollows on each side of the drill or ridgelet to be sown ; by which means the sower is enabled to keep the rowexactly in the centre of thedrill. The ridgelets are pre-viously rolled, either by acommon or concave roller;th
. An encyclopædia of agriculture : comprising the theory and practice of the valuation, transfer, laying out, improvement, and management of landed property, and of the cultivation and economy of the animal and vegetable productions of agriculture. ess andaccuracy. {J. C. R. near Alnwick.) 2689. The Northumberlandone-row turnip drill (Jig. 346.)has two wheels which run in the hollows on each side of the drill or ridgelet to be sown ; by which means the sower is enabled to keep the rowexactly in the centre of thedrill. The ridgelets are pre-viously rolled, either by acommon or concave roller;the latter being preferable :and as the horse goes inthe furrow at one side of thedrill to be sown, of coursehe draws from one side ofthe draught-bar of the bar-row. A small roller fol-lows, and covers and pressesin the seed. A recent im-provement in this machine is the addition of a hopper (a) for pulverised manure, over which a barrel of water might easily be suspended, if deemed requisite.*2690. Weirs manuring one-row turnip drill (Jig. 347.) is a remarkable improvement on the Northumberland implement. It has a manure hopper (a) and a seed hopper (b), the same as the other; but the manure, in place of being dropped along with the seed, S45.
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