. 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. 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 the draught pole (/)was that part to wliich the oxen were attached. 112. The plough describedcovering seed and
. 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. 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 the draught pole (/)was that part to wliich the oxen were attached. 112. The plough describedcovering seed and ridging ;but that which we have de-picted, was the commonform used in stirring thesoil. To supply the placeof our mould boards, thisplough . required either asort of diverging stick (g),inserted in the share head,or to be held obliquely andsloping towards the side towhich the earth was to beturned. The Romans didnot plough their fields inbeds, by circumvolving fur-rows, as we do; but the cat-tle returned always on thesame side, as in ploughingwith a tumwrest plough. 11:3 Wheel ploughs, Lasteyrie thinks, were invented in or not long before the time ofPliny, who attributes the invention to the inhabitants of Cisalpine Gaul. Virgil seems C 4. 24 HISTORY OF AGRICULTURE. Part I. 116. 19.
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