. 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. surface of the road, the line described by wheel sufficiently largi A large wheel on the same road would partake but slig
. 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. surface of the road, the line described by wheel sufficiently largi A large wheel on the same road would partake but slightly of its Inequalities, and the axle would be found to deviate but little from a straight line ; Indeed, with a ,, the axle would describe a perfectly straight line. In the latter case the irictiori, in imen v the draught would be little more than if the carnage ran upon a rail-road ; the arger, therefore • e • e el, the nearer we approach this favourable point of effect By the application of the lint axle }^ , 'large wheels, so highly necessary in these cases, might be employed Without raising the body of the carriage. {IV. Baddeley, jun. in Mech. Mag. vol. xn. p. 174.) 2767. The Gloucestershire waggon, according to Marshal, is toe best in England. By means of a crooked side-rail, bending archwise over the hind wheel, the bodies or frames of them are kept low, without the diameter of the wheels bemg much lessened. I he bodies are likewise made wide in proportion to their shallowness, and the wheels run six inches wider than those of most other waggons, whereby advantages in carrying top- Ff. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Loudon, J. C. (John Claudius), 1783-1843. London : Printed for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green
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