. 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. 374 meadow hay is so extensively made, it is found to produce a great saving of labour, andis 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 largeraccumulations. Sometimes a rope is merely put roundthe heap, especially if it has be
. 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. 374 meadow hay is so extensively made, it is found to produce a great saving of labour, andis 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 largeraccumulations. Sometimes a rope is merely put roundthe heap, especially if it has been a few days in the cock,or piled up; but the most general hay swoop consists oftwo curved pieces of wood, six or eight feet long, joinedby upright pieces, so as to form something like the backof a chair. To the four coiners of this, ropes are attached,which meet in the hook of a one-horse whipple-tree (a).ZTSoTSnowdens leaf-collecting machine is for the purpose of collecting dead leaves fromlawns, parks, and pleasure-grounds, and has been employed in the Kings grounds atHampton Court. The apparatus consists of a large cylindrical tub, about five feet indiameter, and seven feet long, which swings upon an axle, and is open at top, in ordert
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