. 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
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