. 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. t of revolvingblades in this hoe work across the rows ofturnips, leaving the plants at regular dis-tances. {Johnsons Agr. Imp. for 1843, p. 57.) 8191 2690. Crosskills broadcast manure sower (fie. 1156.), which is drawn by onehorse, will contain 8 bushels of manure in astate of powder. It is 6 feet wide, and canbe regulated so as to deposit the manur
. 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. t of revolvingblades in this hoe work across the rows ofturnips, leaving the plants at regular dis-tances. {Johnsons Agr. Imp. for 1843, p. 57.) 8191 2690. Crosskills broadcast manure sower (fie. 1156.), which is drawn by onehorse, will contain 8 bushels of manure in astate of powder. It is 6 feet wide, and canbe regulated so as to deposit the manure atany given rate per acre. By placing thedrill box in a vertical position the quantityof manure sown is increased, and the con-trary by placing it in a horizontal 12/. 12s. 8192. Cottams improved serrated chainharrow (fig. 1157.) consists of a number ofserrated iron discs interwoven and linked together with iron rods, the whole forming a surface of thirty superficial feet, interspersed with nearlyfour hundred points or disc9. It is said that no clod can escape the influence of this harrow, and that itwill be found particularly serviceable in harrowing after seed has been sown. (See Johnsons for 1843, p. 17.) \ 1157. R193 2709. Crosskills clod-crusher roller 0??. 1158.) is intended to effect the same objects as the spiky roller. It consists of a number of segments hxed on an iron axle six feet six inches long. Ploughedland once rolled by this machine is said to be reduced to a finer state than by two or three rollings andharrowings with the ordinary machines. It is drawn by three horses, and cleans itself, even when land
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