. British husbandry; exhibiting the farming practice in various parts of the United Kingdom. Agriculture; cbk. Ch. IV.] PLOUGHING. 45 of two to tliree or four incites per yard in width will be found sufficient; but in many places they are carried considerably higher*. In forming the ridges from land wiiich has not been already tilled, the ploughman measures the breadth at which each is intended to be laid ; set- ting them out from the headlands', which are ridges running across the top and bottom of the field to allow of space for turning the plough when it arrives at the endf ; but, if the sl
. British husbandry; exhibiting the farming practice in various parts of the United Kingdom. Agriculture; cbk. Ch. IV.] PLOUGHING. 45 of two to tliree or four incites per yard in width will be found sufficient; but in many places they are carried considerably higher*. In forming the ridges from land wiiich has not been already tilled, the ploughman measures the breadth at which each is intended to be laid ; set- ting them out from the headlands', which are ridges running across the top and bottom of the field to allow of space for turning the plough when it arrives at the endf ; but, if the slope of the ground and the direction of the fences will allow it, running them north and south, as the corn will ripen more equally than when they are in the direction of east and west. He then plants some poles along the line of the ridge at different distances, to. cf cl serve as guides in striking a straight inter-furrow on each side to make the boundary; having done which, he proceeds to plough from the centre of the ridge. Thus, supposing the headband to adjoin eacli end of the fence, and the inter-furrows between the ridges to berepresented, as in the preceding cut, by the letters d d, the ploughman enters the implement at c, thus laying the slice of the plough-furrow, or })lit, to the right; and when he arrives at the end of the ridge, he then either returns by the opposite side of the same line—as at b—so as to lay the furrow in a contrary direction, and thus pro- ceeds ploughing round until the entire ridge is completed J. Or, what is more usual—as allowing greater room for turning the team, after ploughing the first furrow—he goes to c in the second ridge ; and when he has ploughed the furrow, he then returns to the first ; thus alternately plough- ing each half ridge until both are finished. In this manner, the furrow-slices being laid upon each other towards the centre, the ridge thus acquires a certain degree of convexity ; but when it * In some parts of Glo
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