. 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. machine, for the purpose of collecting the scrapings into heaps ready for removal. This machine, drawnby two horses, and attended by one man, will clean five miles of road, twenty-four feet wide, in eighthours. Two additional men will be required to throw the scrapings off the road, and clear the water-courses. The same work would require twenty-fiv
. 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. machine, for the purpose of collecting the scrapings into heaps ready for removal. This machine, drawnby two horses, and attended by one man, will clean five miles of road, twenty-four feet wide, in eighthours. Two additional men will be required to throw the scrapings off the road, and clear the water-courses. The same work would require twenty-five men per diem, with scrapers, according to the presentmethod. (Gard. Hag. vol. v.) 3750. Sweeping, as a mode of cleaning roads, is chiefly applicable to pavements, to side railways, whether of stone or iron, and to footpaths. On country roads, sweeping might be required to keep the paved or rail-laid parts, where such existed, free from small stones or gravel, which the feet of cattle, &c. might scatter over it from the metalled part. *3751. The sweeping machine {Jig. 5(S8.), also the invention of Mr. Boase, has a frame similar to that ofthe scraper, supported in front by two common wheels about four feet in diameter, and behind by two. small iron wheels with vertical axles, one under each corner. Within the frame, and diagonal to it, isthe cylinder of brooms, consisting of five rows of heath, each row secured between two boards by screws,and attached to an axle by radiating arms of cast-iron. This receives a rotatory motion from the carriagewheels, by means of a bevelled tooth wheel fixed on their axletree, working in another half :ts size onthe axle of the brooms. When the machine is drawn forward, the brooms are thus made to revolve twiceto each revolution of the carriage wheels, and in an opposite direction to them. The brooms are regulatedso as to bear more or lesson the ground, according to the state of the dirt; and, as the heath wears shorter,they can readily be drawn
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