. Elements of practical agriculture; comprehending the cultivation of plants, the husbandry of the domestic animals, and the economy of the farm. 128 IMPLEMENTS FOR PREPARING FOOD. wheel. At every stroke of the knife the slice cut off passes through the aperture, and falls down on the other side. One person drives the wheel by a handle, and another fills the roots into the box. A basket or other vessel may be placed for re- ceiving the slices as they fall. Fig. This machine is exceedingly well adapted for cutting the roots of turnips and mangel-wurzel for oxen. But when sheep, and especia
. Elements of practical agriculture; comprehending the cultivation of plants, the husbandry of the domestic animals, and the economy of the farm. 128 IMPLEMENTS FOR PREPARING FOOD. wheel. At every stroke of the knife the slice cut off passes through the aperture, and falls down on the other side. One person drives the wheel by a handle, and another fills the roots into the box. A basket or other vessel may be placed for re- ceiving the slices as they fall. Fig. This machine is exceedingly well adapted for cutting the roots of turnips and mangel-wurzel for oxen. But when sheep, and especially young sheep, are to be fed in spring, and when their teeth are loose, it is often better to cut the bulbs not only into slices, but to divide them into smaller pieces still, that they may be the more readily taken up by the ani- mals. The machine described may be easily made to cut the roots in this manner. A series of sharp projections are to be placed upon the wheel, just before the apertures, so that the root may be cut by these before it is acted upon by the cut- ting-knife. By this means the roots are cut not only into slices, but into pieces proportioned to the distance at which these sharp projections are placed from one another. Other machines have been constructed for cutting roots in- to small pieces. But as the machine described is suffi- Fig- 47. cient for its purpose, and is simple, it is unnecessary to ex- J| plain other forms of construction. A very easy mode of cutting turnips into pieces for cattle is by an instrument with four blades at right an- gles to one another. The turnip or other root is struck as it lies upon the ground, or in the feeding-trough, and thus at one stroke is divided into four Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Low, David, 1786-1859. London : Lo
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