. 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. of it of the rudest construction ; others have exhibited more refined pieces of mechanism, but most improbable as portrai
. 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. of it of the rudest construction ; others have exhibited more refined pieces of mechanism, but most improbable as portraits. 111. From the different parts of the plough mentioned by the Roman authors, a figure has been imagined and described by the author of the Husbandry of the Ancients, which, from his practical knowledge of agriculture, and considerable classi- cal attainments, it is to be regretted he did not live to see delineated. A plough in use from time immemorial in Valentia (fig. 12.), is supposed to come the nearest to the common Roman imple- ment. In it we have the buris or head (a) ; the temo, or beam (b) ; the stiva, or handle (c) ; the dentale, or share head (d); and the vo- mer or share (e). The other parts, the aura or mould board, and the culter or coulter, composed no part of the simplest form of Ro- man plough ; the plough- staff", or paddle, was a detached part; and the manicula, or part which the ploughman took hold of, was a short bar fixed across, or into the handle, and the draught pole (f) was that part to which the oxen were attached. 112. The plough described by Virgil had a mould board, and was used for covering seed and ridging ; but that which we have de- picted, was the common form used in stirring the soil. To supply the place of our mould boards, this plough required either a sort of diverging stick (g), inserted in the share head, or to be held obliquely and sloping towards the side to which the earth was to be turned. The Romans did not plough their fiel
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