An encyclopædia of agriculture [electronic 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 encyclopdiaofa01loud Year: 1831 SUPPLEMENT. SCIENCE AND ART OF AGRICULTURE. 1S0J of this inst
An encyclopædia of agriculture [electronic 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 encyclopdiaofa01loud Year: 1831 SUPPLEMENT. SCIENCE AND ART OF AGRICULTURE. 1S0J of this instrument has been made by Lord Vernon, to which he has given his name. (See Gard. Mag., vol. ix. p. 508.) The hoe is manufactured at Sheffield of different sizes, and is an excellent implement for stirring the soil; because, from the pointed form of its blade, it goes much deeper with the same exertion of force than any of the thrust or draw hoes. It is, in fact, a kind of pick, like the hoe picks used in France and Spain in stirring the soil among vines. 8091. —2481. The reaping-hook. It is observed by the author of an excellent article on reaping with the scythe, published in the Quart. Jour, of Agr., vol. iv. p. 350., as a remarkable circumstance in the history of mechanical science in Britain, that the art of cutting down corn crops should be so inade. quately supplied with instruments. The reaping-hook, unlike every other mechanical instrument, depends entirely for its efficacy on the physical powers and dexterity of the labourer. The knife and the spade are as simple in their forms as the reaping-hook ; and yet the former has been displaced by many mechanical contrivances, while the reaping-hook remains in all its primitive simplicity. Its continued use in the field is attended with immense loss of time and money ; and, therefore, till an efficient reaping-machine is invented, it is proposed to substitute, in many cases, the scythe in its stead. The scythe is used, for
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