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 ten inches long, three inches broad, and three inches and a h
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 ten inches long, three inches broad, and three inches and a half deep; with a hole (b) two inches and a half in diameter, bored lengthwise through both ends. In the inside, half an inch from each extremity, is a groove for a wire loop to fit into, as in the common moletraps, only that the grooves are here cut quite through, having a small nail or pin of wire driven in through the middle, to keep the wires from *ising above the wood. In the upper side of the hole, close by the grooves, three blunt-pointed pikes of wire (c) are fixed, so as to stand a quarter of an inch out of the wood. The holes for the triggers are bored in the centre of the upper side three inches from each end: in the lower side, opposite each trigger hole, is a small piece cut out, as in the common trap. The springs are made of iron wire, of about one eighth of an inch in diameter (rfand e) ; and are exactly of the same form as those of the common mouse- trap, having a cross wire fixed one inch and a half from the top of each spring (/and g); from which the catches, which are likewise made of wire, are suspended. These catches are retained by the plug or trigger (i) till it is displaced by the mole. Fig. 1186. shows the trigger separately, (Gard. Mag., vol. viii. p. 209.) 8101. — 2691. Mr. Small, in the county of Berwick, and who removed to the Lothians, improved con- siderably on the English or Rotherham plough. But Mr. Wilkie, in the vicinity of Glasgow, has mad
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