. British husbandry; exhibiting the farming practice in various parts of the United Kingdom. Agriculture; cbk. 20 BRITISH HUSBANDRY. [Ch. I Hcav3% stubborn land, wben liardened by the sun, and stony soils, are very apt to throw the ploughs out of the ground, thus rendering it impossible, notwithstanding all the care and skill of the workman, to form the furrows of one uniform depth, and therefore seem to require instruments of a pecu- liar construction. A plough may, indeed, be prevented from being thrown out, by giving the point of the share a dip below the line of the furrow, or by a greater
. British husbandry; exhibiting the farming practice in various parts of the United Kingdom. Agriculture; cbk. 20 BRITISH HUSBANDRY. [Ch. I Hcav3% stubborn land, wben liardened by the sun, and stony soils, are very apt to throw the ploughs out of the ground, thus rendering it impossible, notwithstanding all the care and skill of the workman, to form the furrows of one uniform depth, and therefore seem to require instruments of a pecu- liar construction. A plough may, indeed, be prevented from being thrown out, by giving the point of the share a dip below the line of the furrow, or by a greater length of the mould-board, and a greater weight and length correspondent to that in the other parts of the plough. If the point of the share, however, has a dip given to it, it has a tendency to draw the plough too much down, and experience has shown that no method has been found so effectual, notwithstanding the objections made to them, as the use of a wlieel, or wheels; for if attention be paid to the state of the land, so as to ascertain whether they sink more or less into the surface, the depth at which it ought to be worked can thus always be accurately regulated *. Their utility is indeed so generally admitted in many counties, in the plough- ing of a hard fallow, that those farmers who are unprovided with them to their fallow-ploughs frequently make use of an iron foot, which, having a flat bottom, slides over the ground, and produces nearly the same effect. One we, however, think preferable to a pair, both for simplicity of construc- tion and use. AVhen a ])air are used, that which goes in the furrow must be larger in diameter than that which goes upon the land, and thus, when- ever the implement has no receding furrow to work along, the wheels must be brought to a level to prevent the })lough from being cast to one side, which can only be rectified by causing the furrow wheel to be fixed upon a bar sliding vertically through the right end of the axle; thus occasioning
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