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 dred ; thus, forty-six hundred and four, and not four thousan
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 dred ; thus, forty-six hundred and four, and not four thousand six hundred and four. It is hardly necessary to point out the advantage of having such an instrument. No country gentleman, who takes the smallest charge of his own affairs, should be without one; as, by merely walking from one end to the other of any road, hedge, wall, ditch, &c. with the odometer (which is not more troublesome than a walking stick), he can tell the length of it much more correctly than by a measuring chain, which, to say the least of it, requires two honest men, one at each end, and who must be both paid for their trouble ; whereas the gentleman himself, whose honesty cannot be doubted, as he is not likely to cheat himself, can, at no expense, measure with this instrument at least four times as quickly as those with the chain, who have it also in their power to mismeasure, if I may use the expression, six inches every time a peg is put into the ground ; but its principal uses are to check measurements already made, and to measure off' the size of any proposed improvements, such as plantations, gardens, &c. {Trans. H. Soc, vol. vi. p. 603.) 2507. Good's improved instruments for boring the earth for water, draining, and other purposes, may now be considered as having superseded all others, and we shall shortly describe them. 2508. The auger {Jig. 238. a) is to be connected by the screw-head to the length of rods by which the boring is carried on. This auger
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