. 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. and being rather complicated in its movements, it will require considerable simplificationbefore it can be recommended. A heavy cast-iron roller, with protruding angular rings,might form drills for the beans, and, probably, some machine of this sort might distri-bute them singly or nearly so, and at regular distances: but the best cultivators prefer
. 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. and being rather complicated in its movements, it will require considerable simplificationbefore it can be recommended. A heavy cast-iron roller, with protruding angular rings,might form drills for the beans, and, probably, some machine of this sort might distri-bute them singly or nearly so, and at regular distances: but the best cultivators prefersowing in drills, more thickly than in dibbling, in order to admit of a wide interval for Book. IV. DRILL MACHINES. 411. culture, so as not only to clean the surface as between dibbled rows, but to stir and work the soil, and produce a sort of semi-fallow. 2687. Of turnip drills, thebest,when this root is cultivat-ed on a large scale, is the im-proved Northumberland drill.(Jig. 344.) The roller(a) whichgoes before the seed has twoconcavities, and thus leaves thetwo ridgelets in the very bestform for the seed; after theseare sown, two light rollers (b b)follow and cover them. It isdrawn by one horse, sows tworows at once, and seldom goesout of repair. 26S8. Commons {sometimesFrenchs) turnip drill (Jig. 345.) isgenerally considered one of the was a cartwright at Den-wick, near Alnwick, and received amedal from the Society of Arts, andtwenty guineas from the HighlandSociety, for his invention, in made the machine of wood ; butiron being found so much more suit-able and durable, the manufactureof Commons drills fell into thehands of blacksmiths, and chiefly ofFrench of Alnwick, from whic
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