. 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. i: Liib !!i lliiiiiiiii!!! iiill i! i : : 11 i: 11! i:111 ? ? i. ?! I!!; • • i ? \ •; ? •. 2700. The common brake (Jig. 353.) is merely a harrow of the common kind, of Book IV. HARROWS. 415 greater weight and dimensions than necessary for ordinary soils. Its use is to reduce thestronger clays, at a time when they are too obdurate to be impressed wit
. 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. i: Liib !!i lliiiiiiiii!!! iiill i! i : : 11 i: 11! i:111 ? ? i. ?! I!!; • • i ? \ •; ? •. 2700. The common brake (Jig. 353.) is merely a harrow of the common kind, of Book IV. HARROWS. 415 greater weight and dimensions than necessary for ordinary soils. Its use is to reduce thestronger clays, at a time when they are too obdurate to be impressed with the teeth ofthe common harrow. The levelling brake, or grubber, is generally considered thepreferable implement for this purpose. 2701. The brake, grubber, or levelling harrow (fig- 354.), is a valuable implement on strong clayey soils. It consists of two frames, theone triangular and the other oblong. I3y means ofthe handles, the oblong part of this brake can eitherbe raised up or depressed ; so that when the groundis cut in small pieces by the teeth of the triangularharrow, then the oblong harrow following, its teeth,being pressed down into the high parts, carry ordrag part of the soil oft from the heights; and,when they are raised up by the handles, leave thatsoil in the hollow or low parts. By this means, the•round is bro
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