. 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. permitting the carriage to descend with the greatest ease and safety in the most moun- tainous country. It may he applied
. 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. permitting the carriage to descend with the greatest ease and safety in the most moun- tainous country. It may he applied to any kind of road, and is not subject to the inconvenience of lock- ing poles, which, on rough roads, among loose stones or deep ruts, are very apt to overturn carts by the sudden resistance they meet with. Deep ruts, or loose stones, have not been found to lessen the ad- vantages of this ; (Smith's Compend. of Practical Inventions, p. 322.) 2761. The improved quarry cart has a bend in its iron axle, which brings it within fourteen inches of the ground, although moving on wheels more than five feet high. In the ease with which it is drawn, loaded, and unloaded, it is superior to the common cart in the proportion of seven to three. 2762. The three-wheeled cart is a low machine, on wheels about two feet in diameter, the third wheel placed iii the middle before, and generally of smaller size than the two others. It is used for conveying earth or gravel to short distances, as in canal and road making; and for these purposes it is a most valuable machine, and in very general use. Subsfxt. 2. Waggons. 2763. Waggons constructed in different forms, and of various dimensions, are made use of in different districts of the kingdom ; and for the most part without much attention to the nature of the roads, or of the articles which are to be conveyed by them ; being, in general, heavy, clumsy, and inconvenient. Waggons require much more power in the draught than carts, and are
Size: 2125px × 1176px
Photo credit: © The Book Worm / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookpublisherlondonprin, booksubjectagriculture
