. British husbandry; exhibiting the farming practice in various parts of the United Kingdom. Agriculture; cbk. 26 BRITISH HUSBANDRY. [Ch. II. sion of a fresli crop, tliat efforts were long ago made to supply the deficiency by the introduction of implements of superior power, and accordingly num- berless tools have been invented with that intent, under the various names of cultivators, scufflers, scarifiers, extirpators, tormentors, and grubbers; which, although thus differing in name, have all however but one object, and we shall therefore consider them collectively under the latter deno- mina
. British husbandry; exhibiting the farming practice in various parts of the United Kingdom. Agriculture; cbk. 26 BRITISH HUSBANDRY. [Ch. II. sion of a fresli crop, tliat efforts were long ago made to supply the deficiency by the introduction of implements of superior power, and accordingly num- berless tools have been invented with that intent, under the various names of cultivators, scufflers, scarifiers, extirpators, tormentors, and grubbers; which, although thus differing in name, have all however but one object, and we shall therefore consider them collectively under the latter deno- mination*. Although these implements may be generally spoken of under one head, yet their mode of operation is, in many respects, as different as their form; for some act with small shares, others with coulters, or tines, like those of heavy harrows, but inclined forward, and a few with ski7ns for cutting the surface, each varying in some point of construction, and claiming for their inventor the merit of superiority over all others, although there is seldom much difference to be perceived in the work when equally well performed. The ease expedition with which it is said to be executed by them are also usually much exaggerated; for although we have known assurances to be given of "their being easily able to knock off an acre within the hour without distressing the cattlef," yet, when the land was stirred to only a moderate depth, we have never seen half that amount well done, and they require a powerful team, some being of such great power as not to be easily worked with so few as four horses. The most common mode of construction is however that of a triangular form, as described above, with several rows of either coulters or shares, made of different sizes, as the nature of the ground may require, and capable of being moved in the mortises of the beams according to circumstances ; the frame being usually mounted upon one wheel in front and two behind, wit
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