. 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. fordiminishing friction are of compara-tively recent date. Morton, of Leithwalk, in 1813, conceived the idea ofintroducing into thebody of the plough a wheel about 15 inches in diameter, to act asthe sole, and made several exhibitions of a plough so constructed before the DalkeithFanning Society. (Card. Mag. vol. v.) Wilkie, of Uddingston, brought f
. 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. fordiminishing friction are of compara-tively recent date. Morton, of Leithwalk, in 1813, conceived the idea ofintroducing into thebody of the plough a wheel about 15 inches in diameter, to act asthe sole, and made several exhibitions of a plough so constructed before the DalkeithFanning Society. (Card. Mag. vol. v.) Wilkie, of Uddingston, brought forward arimilar plough in 1814, and Plenty, of London, in 1815. Liston, of Edinburgh, a fewyears afterwards, brought forward a plough on the same principle ; but it never cameinto use. Plentys friction wheel plough has been occasionally used in England. It hastwo wheels under the beam, and one behind the sole; and, while the same plough withtwo wheels requires a power of 4 cwt., those with a third or friction wheel, as Mr. Plentyinforms us, require only a draught of 3f5 cwt. _ 2634. WUkies single horse wheel plough (fig. 311.) was invented by tne late Mr. -Wil-kie, and described by him in the Farmers Magazine for November, 1814. It has the. Book IV. WHEEL PLOUGHS 399
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