. 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. Book IV HORSE HOES. 407. to stir the soil to a good depth than to skim over a great extent of surface, merely cuttingover the weeds. 2671. The Scotch horse hoe(Jig. 333.) has three hoes orshares, and is drawn by a singlehorse. By means of the wheelit can be set to go to any depth ;and in hard surfaces, one shareor more can be taken out, andcoulters
. 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. Book IV HORSE HOES. 407. to stir the soil to a good depth than to skim over a great extent of surface, merely cuttingover the weeds. 2671. The Scotch horse hoe(Jig. 333.) has three hoes orshares, and is drawn by a singlehorse. By means of the wheelit can be set to go to any depth ;and in hard surfaces, one shareor more can be taken out, andcoulters or bent prongs, as inthe cultivator (Jig. 325.), sub-stituted. 2672. The Northumberlandhorse hoe (see Report, $c. ) is of a triangular form,and contains three coulters andthree hoes, or six hoes, accord-ing to the state of the soil. In hoeing between drills of turnips, the two side coultersare used of a curved form. A hoe of the same kind is sometimes attached to a smallroller, and employed between rows of wheat and barley, from nine to twelve inches distant; it is also used inplace of a cultivator, in pre-paring bean-stubbles forwheat in autumn, and inpulverising lands for barleyin spring. 2673. Henrys improvedscarifier (Jig. 334.) is a stronglight implement,
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