. 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. Agriculture. Pigs and poultry are 703. The implements and operations of Swedish agricul- ture are simple, and in many places
. 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. Agriculture. Pigs and poultry are 703. The implements and operations of Swedish agricul- ture are simple, and in many places of an improved descrip- tion. The swing plough, with an iron mould-board, is general throughout Gothland, and is drawn by two horses. The plough of Osterobothnia (fig. 89) is drawn by a single horse, and sometimes by a peasant, and called to Dr. Clarke's mind " the old Samnite plough, as it is still used in the neighbourhood of Beneventum, in Italy ; where a peasant, by means of a cord passed over his shoulder, draws the plough, which his companion guides. It only differs from the most ancient plough of Egypt, as we see it represented upon images of Osiris (fig. 90.), in having a double instead of a single ; (Scandinavia, ch. xiii.) They have a very convenient cradle-scythe for mowing oats and barley, which we shall afterwards describe ; a smaller scythe, not unlike that of Hainault, for cutting grass and clovers ; and, among other planting instruments, a frame of dibblers (fig. 91.) for planting beans and peas at equal distances. 704. Farming operations are, in general, as neatly performed as any where in Britain. The humidity of the climate has given. 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 Loudon, J. C. (John Claudius), 1783-1843. London : Printed for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown,
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