. Elements of practical agriculture; comprehending the cultivation of plants, the husbandry of the domestic animals, and the economy of the farm. In using this plough, the animal of draught walks in the in- terval between the rows of plants. The plane of the left-hand side of the plough is made to go as near the line of plants as can be done without injury; and in this manner the plough cuts off a shallow slice of earth, and lays it in the interval be- tween the rows. The same operation is then performed with the adjoining row of plants by the plough returning in the same interval; by which me
. Elements of practical agriculture; comprehending the cultivation of plants, the husbandry of the domestic animals, and the economy of the farm. In using this plough, the animal of draught walks in the in- terval between the rows of plants. The plane of the left-hand side of the plough is made to go as near the line of plants as can be done without injury; and in this manner the plough cuts off a shallow slice of earth, and lays it in the interval be- tween the rows. The same operation is then performed with the adjoining row of plants by the plough returning in the same interval; by which means another thin slice is cut off, and thus two furrow-slices are taken from each pair of adjoin- ing rows of plants, and thrown into the middle of the space be- tween them. This is a very efficacious species of tillage, though with some expense of labour. It is frequently used in the case of the first hoeing to be given to potatoes and turnips, in the manner to be afterwards described, and in the case of beans, where the land is stiff and the intervals wide. Besides this, however, are employed hoes of very various construction, which, by means of shares and coulters, or of coulters alone, till at one turn the entire interval between the rows of plants. These are sometimes made with beams in the manner of the plough, and sometimes without beams in the manner of the harrow. The former is, for general purposes, the best method of construction, and the following figure repre- sents a machine of this class suited to the different purposes to which it is Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Low, David, 1786-1859. London : Longman, [etc. , etc. ]
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