. 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. ble tube, cornmeasure, and corn sack. Sect. IV. Hand Machines used in Agriculture. 2537. Agricultural hand machines are generally portable; some are exclusively put inaction by man, as the wheel-barrow; and others, as the straw-cutter, sometimes byhorses, water, or other powers. 2538. The common ladder is the simplest ofmanual machines, and is in co
. 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. ble tube, cornmeasure, and corn sack. Sect. IV. Hand Machines used in Agriculture. 2537. Agricultural hand machines are generally portable; some are exclusively put inaction by man, as the wheel-barrow; and others, as the straw-cutter, sometimes byhorses, water, or other powers. 2538. The common ladder is the simplest ofmanual machines, and is in constant use for formingand thatching ricks, and for other purposes; withor without the use of trestles and scaffolding. 2539. The iiheel-barrow is of three kinds : —the new ground work barrow [Jig. 247. i used in moving earth or stones; the dung barrow (Jig. 248.) for the farmyard; and the cornbarrow (Jig. 249.)Jfor conveying corn from the stackyard to the barn. The body of the latter (b) may 249 be made to separate \S? from the frame and wheel, and by means of levers a) to be carried like the Harrows Jor hay and straw may be variouslyconstructed, and near towns (figs. 250, 251. J may be used for wheeling light
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