. 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. anical operation of the implement consists inthe cutting a series of grooves, about six inches asun-der, or any width a more extended practice may findto be the best, and at any depth that is suitable to thenature of the soil, and the kind of manure intended tobe used. The cutters, being attached to a lever, canbe adjusted in a moment, in the event
. 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. anical operation of the implement consists inthe cutting a series of grooves, about six inches asun-der, or any width a more extended practice may findto be the best, and at any depth that is suitable to thenature of the soil, and the kind of manure intended tobe used. The cutters, being attached to a lever, canbe adjusted in a moment, in the event of their beingchoked with long grass, &c, and to the machine is b\< da simple self-acting drill, by which the manure and seedsare deposited, and the land afterwards rolled; in thismanner the manure is secured from the enormous lossthat is inseparable from the ordinary method of apply-ing manures, and the seeds are ready to be acted uponby rain and sunshine, the well-known agents of vegeta-tion. (Johnsons Agr. Imp. 1843, p. 21.)8190. UvckvaW* horse-hoe. for hoeing and thinning turnips (fig. 1155.). The idea of an implement ofthis kind occurred so long ago as 1778 to Mr. Skirving, of Strathruddy in Fifeshire, one of the Scottish 4 P :l. 1!SIH ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF SUPPLEMENT.
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