. 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. ; j , of it of the rudest construction ; others have exhibited more refined pieces of mechanism,but most improbable as portraits. 111. From the (liferent parts of the plough mentioned by the Roman authors, afigure has been imagined and described by the author of the Husbandry of theAncients, which, from his practical knowledge of agriculture, and co
. 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. ; j , of it of the rudest construction ; others have exhibited more refined pieces of mechanism,but most improbable as portraits. 111. From the (liferent parts of the plough mentioned by the Roman authors, afigure has been imagined and described by the author of the Husbandry of theAncients, which, from his practical knowledge of agriculture, and considerable classi-cal attainments, it is to be regretted he did not live to see delineated. A plough inuse from time immemorial in Valentia (fg. 12.), is supposed to come the nearest to the common Roman imple-ment. In it we have theburis or head (a) ; the temo,or beam (b) ; the stiva, orhandle (c) ; the dentale, orshare head (d); and the vo-mer or share (e). The otherparts, the aura or mouldboard, and the culter orcoulter, composed no partof the simplest form of Ro-man plough ; the plough-staff, or paddle, was a detached part; and the manicula, or part which the ploughmantook hold of, was a short bar fixed across, or into the handle, and th
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