. 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. over a well has a series of earthenwhich descend into the water and fill HISTOin OF 1GRICULTURE. Part 1. rise ; the surface, and then bj the Mine motion empty themselves into a trough,from which the water is conveyed l>y trenches into the different parts of the gardenor field. Tin- vertical wheel is put in motion by ? horizontal one, which i
. 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. over a well has a series of earthenwhich descend into the water and fill HISTOin OF 1GRICULTURE. Part 1. rise ; the surface, and then bj the Mine motion empty themselves into a trough,from which the water is conveyed l>y trenches into the different parts of the gardenor field. Tin- vertical wheel is put in motion by ? horizontal one, which is turned by acow. (Jacobi Travels, 159.) The construction of dung-pits lias already been men-tioned, (710.) as introduced by the Moors, and the practice of preserving the dung inthai manner is still continued in Granada and Valencia. Threshing-floors are made inthe fields, and paved with pebbles <»r other stones. Few of the operatiom of Spanish agriculture afford any thing characteristic. Nohay is made in Spain | Totonsend) ; and so dry and brittle is the straw of the corn crops,that in the of treading out. which is generally done by mares and colts, it is bro-ken to pieces. The grain being separated, the straw is put in stac
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