. Rudimentary treatise on agricultural engineering . untiring industry in the manufacture of this and otherimplements, raised himself from an ordinary workman tohis present position as the recipient of the highest honourit was in the power of the Commissioners of the GreatExhibition to bestow. This plough has been introduced as the best specimen ofa plough that is at present manufactured. THE KENTISH TURN-WREST PLOUGH. A stranger passing for the first time through the countyof Kent could not fail to notice this remarkable appearance it is the ugliest, heaviest, and most cum-bersome-
. Rudimentary treatise on agricultural engineering . untiring industry in the manufacture of this and otherimplements, raised himself from an ordinary workman tohis present position as the recipient of the highest honourit was in the power of the Commissioners of the GreatExhibition to bestow. This plough has been introduced as the best specimen ofa plough that is at present manufactured. THE KENTISH TURN-WREST PLOUGH. A stranger passing for the first time through the countyof Kent could not fail to notice this remarkable appearance it is the ugliest, heaviest, and most cum-bersome-looking machine to be found in all England,yet in practice I have no hesitation in saying that it is 40 TH£ KENTISH ITEX-WEEST PLOrGH. one of the very best ploughs the agriculturist ill evermeet his survey of Kent, gives the following dimen-sions and description of the implement:— •• It consists of a beam of wood, 10 feet long by 5 inchesand 4 broad, behind which is a foot 5 inches 1feet long, on the top of which the stilts, or handles, areplaced; the foot is tenoned to the end of the beam, andmortised at the bottom to the end of the chep. Through thebeam, at 2 feet 5 inches distance from the foot, is a sheath ofoak, 7 inches wide by 1^ thick, which is mortised into thechep, or sole, in an oblique direction, so that the point of the__ :nehes distant from the beam. The chep, towhich the share is fixed, is 5 f 1 inches wide, and 5 deep. The share is of hammered iron, weighs about32 1 20 inches long, and from 4r| to 7 inches wide at the point. The upper end of the beam rests on a carriage,with two wheels, 3 feet 2 inches high. On the axle-tree is agallows, on which is a sliding bolster, to let up and the centre of the axle is a clasp iron, to which isfixe
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