. 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. nstruction, already described(2562.), and capable of being readily removed, con-trived for the purpose of twisting straw into ropes forthe filling of drains. 4313. A variety of boring implements, including Goods and the peat-borer, have beenalready described. (2507. to 2519.) 4314. The common draining auger {fig. 662.) consists of four parts, the sh
. 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. nstruction, already described(2562.), and capable of being readily removed, con-trived for the purpose of twisting straw into ropes forthe filling of drains. 4313. A variety of boring implements, including Goods and the peat-borer, have beenalready described. (2507. to 2519.) 4314. The common draining auger {fig. 662.) consists of four parts, the shell or wimble, the chisel the rod, and the handle I he auger shell, or g62 wimble [e), as it is variously called, for exca- . f A vating the earth or strata through which it i^yf I passes, is generally from two and a half to three and a half inches in diameter; the- hollow part of it one foot four inches inlength, and constructed nearly in the shapeof the wimble used by carpenters, only thesides of the shell come closer to one rods (a) are made in separate pieces offour feet long each, that screw into eachother to anv assignable length, one afteranother, as the depth of the hole size above the auger is about an inch.
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