. The Columbian magazine : or, monthly miscellany. , after appear rQ2A fated. «<..<. Account and -D^i^r/^//^« ^/^ w«y Drill-Plough, called cooks DRILL-MACHINE invented b) the rev. fames Cooke^ ofHeaton-Norris^ Near Manchester^ in England: From Annals ofAgriculture^ published by Arthur Toung^ esq. f. r. s. [Illustrated by a plate]* References to the plate^ A, the upper part of the seed-box. B, the lower part ofthe same box. C, a moveablepartition, with a lever, by whichthe grain or seed is let fall at plea-sure fi^m the upper to the lowerpart of the seed-box, from whenceat is tak
. The Columbian magazine : or, monthly miscellany. , after appear rQ2A fated. «<..<. Account and -D^i^r/^//^« ^/^ w«y Drill-Plough, called cooks DRILL-MACHINE invented b) the rev. fames Cooke^ ofHeaton-Norris^ Near Manchester^ in England: From Annals ofAgriculture^ published by Arthur Toung^ esq. f. r. s. [Illustrated by a plate]* References to the plate^ A, the upper part of the seed-box. B, the lower part ofthe same box. C, a moveablepartition, with a lever, by whichthe grain or seed is let fall at plea-sure fi^m the upper to the lowerpart of the seed-box, from whenceat is taken up by cups or ladlesfixed on the cylinder D, and drop- ped into the funnel E, and cofi-veyed thereby into the incision,or drill, made in the land by thecoulter F, and covered by therake or harrow G. H, a lever,by w^hich the wheel I is lifted outof generation with the \vheel K,to prevent the gfain or seed beingscattered upon the ground, whiles * The real plough may be seen in the possession of the FhikielpJm-society for Description of a new Drill-Plough, 353 the irtHchine \^ turning round at theend of the land ; by which the har-row G is aho lifted from the groundat the fame time, and by the ?amcnnotion, by means of the crank andthe horizontal iever h h. L, a flid-Ing lever, with- a weight Upon it ;by means of which, the depth ofthe incisions or drills, and conse-quently the depth that the grain orseed will be deposited in the land,may be easily ascertained. M, ascrew in the coulter-beamj l^turning of which the feed-box, b,is elevated or depressed, in order toprevent the feed being crufhed orbruised, by the revolutions of thecups or ladles. N, a rake with ironteeth, to be applied to the anderside of the rails of the machine, withbcaples and screw-nuts at n, n, bywhich many useful purposes are an-fwered, viz. in accumulating quitchor hay into rows ^ and as a scarifi-cator for young crops of wheat inthe spring ; or to be used Upon afallow ; in which ca
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