. 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. 37* SCIENCE or II. at the end of the other side is a hook, which taking hohi of the bottom edge of the auger enables itto be drawn up, The triangular claw Is used when loose stones Ue at the bottom of the hole, which are too large to be brought up by the cylindrical auger, and cannot be con-venientlj broken. The Internal notches o
. 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. 37* SCIENCE or II. at the end of the other side is a hook, which taking hohi of the bottom edge of the auger enables itto be drawn up, The triangular claw Is used when loose stones Ue at the bottom of the hole, which are too large to be brought up by the cylindrical auger, and cannot be con-venientlj broken. The Internal notches of tin> instrument take holdi the stone, and a- the tool I Ises it them up. For raising brokenrods a tool / Is sometimes employed, which has an angular claw that dips under the shoulder Ol the rod, and holds it fast while drawing up.{Scwtoiis Join mil, voL viiL p. i!17.)
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