. 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. are employed, the plough does very well without a holder on a good tilth or light sward, where there are few stones, exce
. 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. are employed, the plough does very well without a holder on a good tilth or light sward, where there are few stones, except at the setting in and turning out. Wheel ploughs should, however, probably be seldom had recourse to by the experienced ploughman, though they may be more convenient and more manageable for those who are not per- fectly informed in that important and useful art. 2630. The Beverston plough (fig. 309.) was once considered a good wheel plough. It has its principle of draught given it 3Qg in a very effective manner by an in- genious contrivance of iron work, in which, according to Lord Somerville, " the point of draught is perpendi- cularly above the point of traction, or the throat or breast where the share fits ; 2631. The Kentish and Herefordshire wheel ploughs are extraordinary clumsy imple- ments of very heavy draught, and making, especially the former, very indifferent work. They were figured by Blythe in the beginning of the seventeenth century, and seem to have received no improvement since. The Kentish plough is generally made with a turn-wrest, in order always to turn land downwards in ploughing a hill; but this, as Lord Somerville remarks," soon renders the summit of the hill or the upper side of the field where such a practice is persisted in, destitute of soil. A much better mode is to plough up and down the steep, or diagonally across it. In either case the double mould- board plough, invented by His Lordship, is of singular use, as one furrow on
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