Volume 1

Practical agriculture; or, a complete system of modern husbandry : with the methods of planting, and the management of live stock / By R.W. Dickson.

  • Dickson, R. W.
Date:
1805
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Credit: Practical agriculture; or, a complete system of modern husbandry : with the methods of planting, and the management of live stock / By R.W. Dickson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    S Implements of Hiijbandry. Kind of Teeth mof proper —Inconveniences of Harrows in general^Hoio remedied—Harrows with running Bulls—ConfruElion of Harrows—Brake-Harrow—Double-Harrow—Common im- proved Harrow—Mr. Graburn s Harrow—Ufes of-—Mr. Knight's Harrow—Advantages of— Harrows proper for Grafs Seeds—Bujh-Harrow—Mode of Harrowing.—ROLLERS—Confruc- tion of—Common Roller—Spike-Roller—Drill-Roller—Proper Size of Rollers.—THRASHING Machines—Principles of—Improvements of—ObjeBions to—How obviated—Circumfances on which their good Thrajhing depends—Circumfances to be attended to in ufing them—Additions that maybe made to them—Mr. Middleton's Opinion on the Ufe of them—Their Advantages over the Flail.—JViNNOWING MACHINES—Different Kinds of-—Cors's and Rogers's on good Plans.. -Chaff-Cutters—Different Conf ructions of^In general too expenftve—Cook's Nailers—Im- provement in one made by the Succeffors of IVinlow.—RakES—Generally well known—Spring-teeth- Rakes—Stubble-Rakes—Twitch-Rakes—Mode of conf ruling them.—WheEL-CaRRIAGES— Circumfances to be attended to in their ConfruElion—Waggons for Hujbandry—Faulty Confruc- iim of the Berkf ire—Improvement of fuggefed—In general difadvantagous for the Purpofes (f the Farmer.—IRISH Car—Ufes and Advantages of—CARTS—Single-horfe-Carts mof ufeful-Obfer- vations on the Advantages of One-horfe-Carts—Clofe-Carty Defeription of—General ConfruElion of—Coup-Cart—Drag-Cart—Corn-Cart—Hay-Cart—Farmer s-Cart—^earry-Cart—Remarks en Carts in general. TThERE is fcarcely any part of the extenfive and important fcience of agriculture that has received greater improvements within thefe few years, than that which relates to the conftrudlion of the implements which are necelfary to be employed. Since a tafte for the art has fortunately been diffufed through the country, and men of great knowledge and fortune have been induced to engage in it, perfons of ingenuity and mechanical talents have been brought forward and fufficiently encouraged to exert themfelves either in the improvement of the better kinds of the old inftruments, or in the invention of new ones, by which means more convenient and ufeful inftruments and machines have been provided for almoft all the various operations and proceffes that are continually to be performed in cultivating land, and managing the different kinds of buftnefs neceffarily conneded with it. Among the variety of different im- plements which have been thus prefented to the attention of the agriculturift, fome, as may eafily be conceived, have appeared, that are evidently much too expenftve and complicated in their conftru61ion for the purpofes which they are intended tp ferve, and others, probably from a want of praftical information in the inventors, have not been properly adapted to the ufes for which they were deftgned j but in ge- neral they have been fuch as have contributed much to the prefent very improved ftate of 1 he art. The backwardnefs that maybe obferved, and which is fo much complained of in fome particular diftrids in refped to the ftate of their cultivation, would feem to depend, in fome meafure, on an attachment to fuch implements as they have been in the habit
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