. 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. Book IV. DRILL MACHINES. 409 covered by a lid, and thus screened from wind or rain. The same machine is easily transforme
. 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. Book IV. DRILL MACHINES. 409 covered by a lid, and thus screened from wind or rain. The same machine is easily transformed into a cultivator, horse hoe (jig. ;, scarifier, or grubber, all which operations it performs exceedingly well ; and by substituting a corn-rake, stubble- rake, or quitch-rake, for the beam of coulters, or hoes (a), it will rake corn-stub- bles, or clean lands of root weeds. When corn is to be sown in rows, and the intervals hoed or stirred, we scarcely know a machine superior to this one ; and from being long in a course of manufacture, few can be made so cheap. But these advantages, though considerable in the process of drilling, are nothing, when compared with those which arise from the use of the horse hoe; with which from eight to ten acres of land may be hoed in one day, with one man, a boy, and one horse, at a trifling expense, in a style far superior to, and more effectual than, any hand-hoeing whatever; also at times and seasons when it is impossible for the hand-hoe to be used at all. 2680. The Xorfolk drill, or improved lever drill (fg. 340.), is a corn drill on a larger scale than Cooke's, as it sows a breadth of nine feet at once : it is chiefly used in the light soils of Norfolk and Suffolk as being more expeditious than Cooke's, but it also costs about double the 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 per
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