An encyclopædia of agriculture [electronic An encyclopædia of agriculture [electronic resource] : comprising the theory and practice of the valuation, transfer, laying out, improvement, and management of landed property, and the cultivation and economy of the animal and vegetable productions of agriculture, including all the latest improvements, a general history of agriculture in all countries, and a statistical view of its present state, with suggestions for its future progress in the British Isles encyclopdiaofa01loud Year: 1831 404 SCIENCE OF AGRICULTURE. Tart II. seven or eight inches, b
An encyclopædia of agriculture [electronic An encyclopædia of agriculture [electronic resource] : comprising the theory and practice of the valuation, transfer, laying out, improvement, and management of landed property, and the cultivation and economy of the animal and vegetable productions of agriculture, including all the latest improvements, a general history of agriculture in all countries, and a statistical view of its present state, with suggestions for its future progress in the British Isles encyclopdiaofa01loud Year: 1831 404 SCIENCE OF AGRICULTURE. Tart II. seven or eight inches, by a screw through the axletree, which is turned by a small handle (g), so that the hind part of the harrow, by this simple mode, is also regulated to the depth at which it is found necessary to work. 4. When the harrow is drawn to the head or foot lands, the regulator is pressed down to d, and the fore wheel (w) is then allowed to pass under the fore bar (?*), by which the nose of the harrow is lifted, and the points of the fore tines {III I) will then be taken two or three inches out of the soil, which allbrds the means of turning the harrow with the greatest facility. 5. Being made of malleable iron, its dnrability may be said to be endless; whereas, if made of wood, the prime cost woidd be entirely lost at the end of every five or six years. Lastly, the mode of working is so easy, that any boy of ten or twelve years of age is perfectly qualified to manage it. Next to Wilkie's brake, we consider this the most valuable of pronged implements, and think that, like Wilkie's implement, it might be substituted for the plough, after drilled green or root crops, on light soils generally. Some account of the astonishing powers of the implement, as exemplified in breaking up Hyde Park, London, in 1826, will be found in the Gardener's Magazine, vol. ii. p. 250. 2658. Weir's improved cultivator (Jig. 325.) is a very effective implement of this kind, with nine coulters or prongs. It
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