. British husbandry; exhibiting the farming practice in various parts of the United Kingdom. Agriculture; cbk. ^H}^ It must be observed, that the bar above-mentioned being moveable, the shares can be removed altogether, or replaced by coulters, and when the object is to earth up the plants, a double wrought iron mould-board, with hinges and connected by a sliding bar, can be added, which converts it into a double-breasted plough of this appearance; but these expanding. horse-hoes, with mould-hoards, have been found inefficient in their operation upon binding soils when they arrive at more than
. British husbandry; exhibiting the farming practice in various parts of the United Kingdom. Agriculture; cbk. ^H}^ It must be observed, that the bar above-mentioned being moveable, the shares can be removed altogether, or replaced by coulters, and when the object is to earth up the plants, a double wrought iron mould-board, with hinges and connected by a sliding bar, can be added, which converts it into a double-breasted plough of this appearance; but these expanding. horse-hoes, with mould-hoards, have been found inefficient in their operation upon binding soils when they arrive at more than twelve or fifteen inches wide ; and three small hoes, set to the same width, or even a number of harrow tines, bent considerably forwards, have been found preferable, par- ticularly if the ground be infested with couch t- The cost of the whole machine, which is made entirely of iron, complete in all its parts, is bl. lOs. Such are the usual modes of horse-hoeing between the drills ; but it is evident that they must be of sufficient width to allow of the animal by which the implement is drawn, to step without injury to the plants ; and, as corn is generally sown too close to admit of that, the operation is com- monly performed by the hand-hoe, which requires no particular description. As grain, however, when sown upon land which is tolerably dry, and has got high above the ground, will seldom sustain much injury from the moderate tread of cattle, a machine has been invented by Mr. Wilson, of Traprain, in East Lothian, for cleansing the ground between the rows of white corn crops. * This instiument is extensively used in tlie tillage of the Netherlands, and has been much improved since its introduction into this countrj-. A full account of it, together with an engraving, may be found in the Appendix to Sir John Sinclair's Code of Agri- culture. t Bedford Report, p. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced fo
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