. 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. fore bar (/»), by which the nose of the harrow is lifted, and the pointsof the fore tines [till) will then he taken two or three inches out of the soil, which affordsthe means of turning the harrow with the greatest facility. 5. Being made of malleableiron, its durability may he said to he endless; whereas, if made of wood, the prime costwould he en
. 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. fore bar (/»), by which the nose of the harrow is lifted, and the pointsof the fore tines [till) will then he taken two or three inches out of the soil, which affordsthe means of turning the harrow with the greatest facility. 5. Being made of malleableiron, its durability may he said to he endless; whereas, if made of wood, the prime costwould he entirely lost at the end of every live or six years. Lastly, the mode of workingis so easy, that any boj of ten or twelve years of age is perfectly qualified to manage to Wilkics brake, we consider this the most valuable of pronged implements, andthink that, like Wilkies implement, it might be substituted for the plough, after drilledgreen or root crops, on light soils generally. Some account of the astonishing powers ofthe implement, as exemplified in breaking up Hyde Park, London, in 1826, will be foundin the Gardeners Magazine, vol. ii. p. -50. 2658. Hcirs improved cultivator (Jig. 325.) is a very cficctive implement of this kind,. 9 k « —- — Wfirt 1 1 ! p= — 1 - ^<Z ? i . ri f r^-Jl with nine coulters or prongs. It may be set to go more or less deep by raising orlowering both the fore and hind wheels. 2659. The Scotch cultivator or grubber (Jig. 326.) was formerly considered one of thebest implements of this kind, as a substitute 326 for the plough ; but it has since been super-seded by Finlaysons self-cleaning harrow. It consists of two strong rectangular frames, the one including the other, and nine bars mortised into the inner one, with eleven coulters or prongs with triangular, sharp-edged, dipping feet, four cast-iron wheels, and two handles. All the cutters are fixed , in these bars, except two which are placed in the side beams of the outer frame, a
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