. British husbandry; exhibiting the farming practice in various parts of the United Kingdom. Agriculture; cbk. 142 BRITISH HUSBANDRY. [Ch. X. as not to require at tliat ])eriod any additional tillage tor ihe extrication of the weeds *." There is much sound sense in the above observation; for the more light soils are stirred, the more is their compactness and solidity im- paired, and the less are they thereby rendered adequate to the production of a strong and healthy crop of wheat. The soil mav, indeed, be again partially restored to its former denseness, but it cannot be so perfectly con
. British husbandry; exhibiting the farming practice in various parts of the United Kingdom. Agriculture; cbk. 142 BRITISH HUSBANDRY. [Ch. X. as not to require at tliat ])eriod any additional tillage tor ihe extrication of the weeds *." There is much sound sense in the above observation; for the more light soils are stirred, the more is their compactness and solidity im- paired, and the less are they thereby rendered adequate to the production of a strong and healthy crop of wheat. The soil mav, indeed, be again partially restored to its former denseness, but it cannot be so perfectly con- solidated by the means of rolling, as it had been by the previous state of rest in which it had been left. The treading of sheep is a plan very gene- rally resorted to for giving a firm bottom to wheat lands ; and flocks are folded in dry weather, upon young wheat, previous to the frost setting in, and afterwards early in the spring, with very beneficial effect. In Norfolk, indeed, they are not unfrequently fed upon the wheats, with turnips carted from the other fields and spread upon the land. PRESSING MACHINE. An ingenious mode of compressing- light soils has, however, been long practised by some farmers in the use of a machine called the " Land- Presser," or " Furrow-Slice Compressor," which being drawn over land recently ploughed, leaves it as if the work had been executed by a drill sowing machine, pressing down the grips, or channels left by the common ploughs, laying the furrows flat at the bottom, compact, regular, and in a proper state to receive the seed without any further preparation, so that no hollow places may remain in which it can be buried too Above is the representation of an implement of this kind, for which a premium was a few years ago awarded by the Bath and West of England Agricultural Society to Mr. Cliarles Adams. It is worked by one horse, which walks in the furrow, and follows two ploughs. The small wheels represent three
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