. 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. 858 PRACTICE OF AGRICULTURE. Part III. 5401; One of the best turnip horse-hoes is formed from the skeleton of a common pl
. 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. 858 PRACTICE OF AGRICULTURE. Part III. 5401; One of the best turnip horse-hoes is formed from the skeleton of a common plough {fig. 759.), Ijy 7r)9. two coulters of iron curved inwards (nr, 4), and fixed to wooden bars (r, /, and c, d), which last again are hooked to the beam of the implement, and made, by means of a cross iron bar (g-, h), to be set at a greater or smaller distance from each other as it may be required. A broad iron share (i) moves in the middle of the hollow of the ridges, while the two coulters on each side go as near to the rows of turnips as can be done with safety; and in this manner the intervals of the ridges are tilled, and the weeds within them, and as near to the plants as the coulters can go, cut up and destroyed. By removing the wooden bar and coulters of this machine, and hooking to it, on each side, a small cast-iron mould- board, it is converted to tlie double mould-board plough also, as we have seen. 5+05. The brakes or horse-hoes of Wilkie ('2G66.), Finlayson (26(37.), or of Kirkwood (495.').), may easily be set and arranged for this or any other description of culture ; so that it requires no new implements. 5406. The hand-hoers go to work, each having a little iron hoe, fixed upon a wooden handle about three :,---__ feet in length (fig. 760.). The breadth of the blade (n") of this ^.» '" " hoe is eight inches ; and the workers, standing in the hollow ^ TC", BP?!«~'i33 "'"' the\T faces to the ridges, hoe the turnip plants, leavi
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