. 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. ast-iron, which is a great saving both in first cost and repairs ;costing only one shilling, and ploughing at an average upwards of ten acres. Only thecoulter requires to be taken to the smithy, the share being renewed by the ploughman atpleasure. The wheel, which is of cast-iron, will last many years. The draught of thisplough has been proved at a
. 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. ast-iron, which is a great saving both in first cost and repairs ;costing only one shilling, and ploughing at an average upwards of ten acres. Only thecoulter requires to be taken to the smithy, the share being renewed by the ploughman atpleasure. The wheel, which is of cast-iron, will last many years. The draught of thisplough has been proved at a public ploughing match, in 1829, to be fully 30 per cent lessthan that of the common scoring plough of the most improved form. The price is alsolower than that of any iron plough now in use. Mr. W. has lately made some of theseploughs with a piece of mechanism attached to the wheel, by the revolution of which,the quantity of ground passed over by the plough may be indicated. (Gard. v.) 2638. The paring wheel plough is of various forms, though it is an implement seldomrequired. It is used for paring the surface of old grass lands, or leys on claysoil, where the turf is to be burned. A variety in use in the fen districts (Jig. 313.),. 400 SCIENCE OF AGRICULTURE. Part IL lias a wheel (a) which cuts the turf, instead of a coulter; a broad flat share which raises it, with a sharp fin 01 turned-up part at the extremity (c), which cuts the turf on that side, thus turning it over in slices about a foot broad and two inches deep. There is a foot (b) from the forepart of the beam, which serves to prevent the share from going too deep. 2639. Clarkes draining plough () was found to answer well inmeadow ground near Belford in Northumberland, but could not be drawn in stiff clay
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