. 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. ow, ten or twelve inchesdeep, made by the main body. The second body generally works from ten to twelveinches deep, but might be made to work to the depth of thirteen or fifteen inches; uponits mould-board is formed an inclined plane, extending from the back part of the featherof the sock or share (c) to the back part of the mould-board (d), where i
. 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. ow, ten or twelve inchesdeep, made by the main body. The second body generally works from ten to twelveinches deep, but might be made to work to the depth of thirteen or fifteen inches; uponits mould-board is formed an inclined plane, extending from the back part of the featherof the sock or share (c) to the back part of the mould-board (d), where it terminatesabout six inches above the level of the sole (e). This inclined plane raises the soil fromthe bottom of the furrow, and turns it over on the top of that which has been laid in thebottom of the previousfurrow by the body (a)going before. 2625. Gladstone s water-furrowing plough ( and 307.) is used forcleaning out the furrows ofanew-sown field, when thenature of the soil, or theinclination of the surface,requires extraordinary at-tention to leading off therain water. The beam (a),handles (6), and sole (c),of this plough are form-ed in the usual mannerof double mould-board ploughs. Theforming a square bottom to the furrow,. d\%pHld 307 sole is five inches square, for the purpose ofThe two mould-boards (d) are loose, so as torise and fall with the depth or shallowness of the furrow, being fastened only by thecentre pin {e) to the upright (/). The mould-boards, or wings, as they are called, arekept extended by a piece of iron (g) ; and this piece of iron has a number of holes in it,so that, by means of a pin (A) it may be raised or lowered at pleasure, according to thedepth of the water furrow. The mould-boards are made of wood. Any old plough maybe converted into one of this description for a few shillings. 2626. Draining ploughs are of various kinds, but none of them are of much use ; thework can always be done better, and generally cheaper, by manual labour.
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