. 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. 8295.—3983. Filling up blanks in plantations. In Cambridgeshire, where the willow is grown exten- sively for basket rods,
. 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. 8295.—3983. Filling up blanks in plantations. In Cambridgeshire, where the willow is grown exten- sively for basket rods, deaths take place occasionally among the stools. The mode of filling up the blanks thus occasioned is not, as might be supposed, by sticking in a cutting, as in the case of new plantations, because the shoots from that cutting would soon be choked by the surrounding shoots from the stools; but by inserting a rod at its full length, and allowing it to grow undisturbed for a year or two; when, having acquired an abundance of root* and a thick stem, it is cut down. Empirical practice is here in beautiful accordance with science. (J. Z>.) 8296. — 4062. Sawing tnachi?ies for felling timber, of four different kinds, will be found described in the Highland Soc. Tra?is., vol. ix. p. 275. The mosc powerful of these appears to be a circular saw {fig. 1235.),. which consists, first, of a ground frame (a a), in form of the common hand-barrow, eight feet and a half in length by two feet and a half in width , on one side of which is erected a vertical frame {// b), of three feet and a half in height. The second compartment comprehends a traversing frame or carriage (c c) about five feet in length, and two feet in height; the vertical bar (d) being prolonged upward, and having its top and bottom ends formed into pivots, on which the carriage, carrying all the working ma- chinery, is made to swing. The saw (e), of twenty-four inches diameter, is fixed on the lower end of a vertical sp
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