. 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. asgow, and Clarke ofStirling. (Stephenss Book of the Farm, vol. i. p. 407.) 8182. —2009. IVilkies turnwrest or kill-side plough ( Trans. Wort. Soc, vol. xii. p. 484.) (fig. 1152.) asalwavs used by Mr. Smith of Deanston, whose fields, being thoroughly drained, have a regular uniformappearance without furrows. Each of the two mould boards in this plou
. 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. asgow, and Clarke ofStirling. (Stephenss Book of the Farm, vol. i. p. 407.) 8182. —2009. IVilkies turnwrest or kill-side plough ( Trans. Wort. Soc, vol. xii. p. 484.) (fig. 1152.) asalwavs used by Mr. Smith of Deanston, whose fields, being thoroughly drained, have a regular uniformappearance without furrows. Each of the two mould boards in this plough is attached to the rod b, bytwo bands of iron, c, c, by which, with the end of the handle d, they are alternately raised or depressed ;while the one is in a working position, the other is carried above. The rod A, extending to the coultetat/, in moving the mould-board, moves also the coulter one inch at the point, so as to give it the properposition with the point of the sock at g. 8183 2610. The Deanston subsoil plough (fig. 1153.), as designed and used by Mr. Smith on the farm of Deanston, has been found peculiarly efficacious in rendering productive a sterile soil upon a tenacious 4 P 2 ENCYCLOPEDIA OF AGRICULTURE. bottom It has been constructed so as to be of easy draught, and to penetrate to a depth of from sixb ento eighteen Inches from the surface. It has no mould-board, and is intended merely to break and stirup the subsoil without brining it to the surface, or mixing it in the first instance with the incumbentsoil It is in fact, a horse-pick, and readily loosens and throws out all stones not exceeding seventypound- weight It is drawn by four horse-, two and two abreast, and it is held in the usual way by oneman In working, the common plough goes before it, taking a furrow ten inches hy six inches thesubsoil plough following in the bottom of that furrow, and going deeper by ten or twelve inches. \\ henthis ploogh is applied on a tenacious bottom
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