. 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. 374 meadow hay is so extensively made, it is found to produce a great saving of labour, and is now coming into very gener
. 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. 374 meadow hay is so extensively made, it is found to produce a great saving of labour, and is now coming into very general use. 2729. The hay swoop or sweep {jig. 373.) is an implement for drawing or sweeping accumulations of hay to the cart or rick, or to any larger accumulations. Sometimes a rope is merely put round the heap, especially if it has been a few days in the cock, or piled up ; but the most general hay swoop consists of a^ two curved pieces of wood, six or eight feet long, joined 7a by upright pieces, so as to form something like the back •- of a chair. To the four corners of this, ropes are attached, which meet in the hook of a one-horse whipple-tree (a). 2730. Snowden's leaf-collecting machine is for the purpose of collecting dead leaves from lawns, parks, and pleasure-grounds, and has been employed in the King's grounds at Hampton Court. The apparatus consists of a large cybndrical tub, about five feet in diameter, and seven feet long, which swings upon an axle, and is open at top, in order to receive the leaves as they are collected. The collectors are hollow iron scoops, or scrapers, attached to bars, extending across the machine from two iron hoops, which work round the cylindrical receiver, and, as they revolve, scrape the ground, collect the leaves together, lift them up, and turn them over into the tub. The collectors or scoops (fig. 374.) are made of many distinct pieces, set in rows, with springs behind each, by which any part of the scraper is enabled to give way, sho
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