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 1322 ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF AGRICULTURE, nasi adwi1onjl 1'200 j:
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 1322 ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF AGRICULTURE, nasi adwi1onjl 1'200 j:iven to it, from a watering-pot, before it is put in. The wall mould will not be required at this stage of the proceedings, for the sides of the trench will form a mould ; but as the edges will be somewhat broken away, the ground must be well rammed up to the foundation on both sides. Having proved the work with a level, some precaution must here be taken to prevent the damp from ascending the wall, which it would otherwise be sure to do, more or less, according to the nature of the soil. In some cases, a bed of cement, spread all over the work just above the ground line, will be sufficient; in others, a course of slates must be added, and over that another bed of cement. The chimneys should be built first, and with sound bricks and good mortar, which will allow of the earth being well rammed up to the brickwork. 8148. Mode of fixing the mould. The bearers are now laid on at proper distances for one length of walling, level in themselves, and with each other ; the sides of the mould are then set in their places, as are also the uprights, and the end and the wall gauges are put in. The line is next passed round each pair of posts, and tightly twisted with a stick ; one end of which is brought over a nail or peg in one of the posts, and kept there, by which means the whole is braced firmly together. 8149. A section of the mould as fixed, is seen at fig. 1200. ; in which a is a
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