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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Licence: Public Domain Mark

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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    Swing- Ploughs, [To face Page 40.]' Fig. I. Is a reprefentatlon of the Rotheram. or patent plough. As this fort of plough is not incumbered with wheels, it muft be the moll free from friftion, and the refiftance which ncceflarily proceeds from that caufe ; confequently, may in general be faid to be the lighted of draught. Fig. 2. Reprefents SmalPs chain-plough, which will be found highly ufeful in cultivating ftrong lands and rough grounds; for, Ihould the (hare, or coulter, fuddenly meet with any obflruflion, the drain would be Immediately thrown upon the chain, indead of the beam. Fig. 3. Is a fwing-plough, with Lord Somerville’s improved mould-board. From the clean diarpened condru£lion of the bread and throat of this plough, deep dllF land may be broken up with great fuccefs j and as the extremity of the mould-board is moveable, the furrows may be laid more or lefs flat, according to the circumdances of the cafe.
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