Knight's American mechanical dictionary : a description of tools, instruments, machines, processes and engineering, history of inventions, general technological vocabulary ; and digest of mechanical appliances in science and the arts . d to diminish the expense of cultivation bysubstituting horse labor. TuUs implement was comparatively rude, and itwas successively improved by a number of inventors,among whom we notice the names of Blackie, the HOEING-MACHINE. 1107 HOEING-MACHINE. two Wilkies, Weir, Hayward, Grant, Ganett, How-ard, and others in Britain. The history merges into the history of c
Knight's American mechanical dictionary : a description of tools, instruments, machines, processes and engineering, history of inventions, general technological vocabulary ; and digest of mechanical appliances in science and the arts . d to diminish the expense of cultivation bysubstituting horse labor. TuUs implement was comparatively rude, and itwas successively improved by a number of inventors,among whom we notice the names of Blackie, the HOEING-MACHINE. 1107 HOEING-MACHINE. two Wilkies, Weir, Hayward, Grant, Ganett, How-ard, and others in Britain. The history merges into the history of cultiva-tors, in the United States our husbandry being dif-ferent. The great breadthplanted to corn andcotton, and the neces-sity for frequent plow-ings, have given a row, tending the crop to his right hand each is very different from the hoeing of wheat, andalso from the hoeing of turnips. The horse-haes (b) of Britain have a range ofshares spaced like the drills, so as to work in theintervals between the rows of plants, such as wheatand turnips. Others of their horse-hoes are for theculture of plants requiring a greater width, such asmangel-wurzel, cabbages, and beans. The English horse-hoes a c have caster wheels in.
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