The horse-hoeing husbandry: or, an essay on the principles of tillage and vegetation ... / By I.T. [J. Tull].

  • Jethro Tull
Date:
1733
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Credit: The horse-hoeing husbandry: or, an essay on the principles of tillage and vegetation ... / By I.T. [J. Tull]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ‘much by Crops obtain’d from fair Tillage, but that in a few Years, ic will recover its Fertility ; yet the Mifchief done by this Fire, will never fuffer it to equal the fame fort of Unburn’d Land, until a general Conflagration. | | Multum adeo, raftris glebas qui frangit inertes, Viminea/que trahit crates, juvat arva : Much too he helps the Field, who ev’ry Clod With Harrows breaks, and drags the Hurdle’s (Load. . This way of Tilling the Land with Harrows, re- commended by the Poet, feems to fhew his Hut bandry was degenerated from that of the old Ro- mans, who faid, Male fubactum Agrum qui occandus fit. Col. That Field is ill Till’d that wants Har- rowing. A yet worfe Contrivance it was, to Till Land with a Hurdle made of Vine Twigs, this is fo Puc- rile an Invention, that he might have direéted it to be drawn by a Hobby-Horfe. | A late Commentator interprets this Harrowing and Hurdling, to be of Ufe in fowing upon the Back ; that is, upon Once Plowing ; had this In- terpretation been omitted, Virgil might have been thought not to have amafs’d together every one of the very worft Pieces of Husbandry, that could be met with in any Age or Country. | | Ruvfus in obliquinm (1) verfo perrumpit aratro. Affails oblique, and thorough cuts again. This (1) Whilft the Green-fide of the Furrow, which is turned downwards by the firft Plowing, is Rottinz, the Root-fides __ being upwards, fends up Blades and Stalks of Grafs from all the Joints of Roots expos’d to the Air; for every Joint has both Roots
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