. An encyclopædia of agriculture [electronic resource] : comprising the theory and practice of the valuation, transfer, laying out, improvement, and management of landed property, and the cultivation and economy of the animal and vegetable productions of agriculture, including all the latest improvements, a general history of agriculture in all countries, and a statistical view of its present state, with suggestions for its future progress in the British Isles. Agriculture. Book IV HAND MACHINES. .'587 commended in any particular case will depend on the texture of the soil; one which would ans
. An encyclopædia of agriculture [electronic resource] : comprising the theory and practice of the valuation, transfer, laying out, improvement, and management of landed property, and the cultivation and economy of the animal and vegetable productions of agriculture, including all the latest improvements, a general history of agriculture in all countries, and a statistical view of its present state, with suggestions for its future progress in the British Isles. Agriculture. Book IV HAND MACHINES. .'587 commended in any particular case will depend on the texture of the soil; one which would answer w 11 in a soft soil or sand might not succeed in a stony or loamy soil. As the fashions of drills are continually changing, we advise intending purchasers to describe their soil and kind of culture, as whether raised or flat drilling, &c, to a respectable implement-maker, and try the kind he recommends. In the mean time we submit a few of the established forms. 2574. The bean or potato dibbling machine 1 jig. 283.) consists of a single wheel, set with dibber points, which may be placed wider or closer at pleasure. It is pushed along by one man, and succeeds on friable soils, but cannot be depended on when the sur- face is rough or tenacious. Potato sets to be planted after this machine should be cut with the improved scoop (2494.). 2575. The common hand dritt-ban-ow {fig. 284.) consists of a frame and wheel somewhat similar to that of a common barrow, with a hopper attached to con- tain the seed. It is used for the pur- pose of sowing horse-beans, turnips, and similar seeds, upon small ridges. In using it, the labourer for the most part wheels it before him, the seed being afterwards covered by means of a slight harrow, or sometimes by a shallow furrow. 2576. The broadcast hand-drill {fig. 285.) is chiefly used for sowing clover or other small seeds, with or without grass seeds. The operation, however, is much more fre-. Please note that these images are extracted from
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