. 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. heelbarrow. All that is wanted to render this appa-ratus complete, is a portable shelter or shed, which might be formedentirely of plate-iron, to move on three wheels ; or a slight ironframe on three wheels, to be covered with reed frames or strawmatting. The shelter should be formed so as not only to protectfrom perpendicular rain or sun, but from
. 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. heelbarrow. All that is wanted to render this appa-ratus complete, is a portable shelter or shed, which might be formedentirely of plate-iron, to move on three wheels ; or a slight ironframe on three wheels, to be covered with reed frames or strawmatting. The shelter should be formed so as not only to protectfrom perpendicular rain or sun, but from side winds and driftingsnows or rains. {Card. Mag. vol. v.)3660. Boulder stones, according to Fall, are broken with a hammer upon a block madeof cast iron. The hammer should weigh about three pounds and a half or four pounds,with two flat faces of about an inch and a quarter in diameter, and a handle similar toa blacksmiths hammer. The cast-iron block must be six or seven inches square, andthree inches and a half in thickness, and let into a piece of coarse solid wood, aboutthirteen or fourteen inches square, and seven or eight inches thick. The block, whenused, is to be placed firmly upon the ground, with a kind of trough so fixed that the.
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