. 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. 412 SCIENCE OV AGRHULTUKK. Part II. is deposited in a deep gutter made by a coulter (<•) which goes before; this manure iscovered by a pronged coulter (</) wliich follows the other ; next comes the coulter 3-17. V which forms the gutter for the seed (e). TheMid is thus deposited about one inch above themanure. One roller of the concave kind go
. 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. 412 SCIENCE OV AGRHULTUKK. Part II. is deposited in a deep gutter made by a coulter (<•) which goes before; this manure iscovered by a pronged coulter (</) wliich follows the other ; next comes the coulter 3-17. V which forms the gutter for the seed (e). TheMid is thus deposited about one inch above themanure. One roller of the concave kind goesbefore the machine, and another light one of thecommon kind follows after it: or, without at-tached rollers, the drill may be affixed to one sideof the common roller behind, which roller mayprepare one drill and cover the seed sown onanother each course. 2691. The drill roller is so contrived as to form regular small incisions or drills in theground, at proper depths for the seed. It is merely a common roller, mostly of iron,about seven feet long, about which are put cutting-wheels of cast iron, that turn roundthe common cylinder, each independently of the others, which cylinder generally weighsabout a ton. It is drawn by three or four horses abreast, and driven by a man elevatedbehind them ; the cutting-wheels, being movable, may be fixed at any distance, by meansof washers ; but the most common and favourite distance is four to six inches. It isMid t
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