Implements of IIujlandry- —Drill-Bannov — Hoes. 1.9

paffes between the wheel and feed-box. By this means the wheel moves on a fmoothfurface between the land fide and mould-board, and the feed is depofited at a re-gular depth. For beans he finds two inches to anfiver very well. By means ofthe fame plough he has fown both wheat and barley at different intervals from fixto twelves inches, and one and a half or two inches deep, with good fuccefs; andfor fmall concerns, he thinks that this cheap and fimple apparatus will be found veryeligible and advantageous.

The drill is fixed to the plough by two pieces of iron going from the ends of it,one to the beam and the other to the ftilt; which moving round on bolts, allowthe wheel to fall and rife with every accidental hollow or eminence. The lowerpart of the coulter is kneed or bent to bring it to the fame plane with the landfide of the plough.

The Drill-Barrow is an inftrument contrived with much fimplicity, and welladapted for fowing Come grains and fmail feeds, as it can be readily regulated inrefpect to the proportion of the feed. It, however, fows only one row at a time,which in many inftances is inconvenient. This machine would be much improvedif it were made to drill feveral rows at once, and capable of being regulated in re-fpe£t to diftances for the feed. In fome places this drill is much efteemed for puttingin bean crops, in doing which it delivers into the furrow.

IIOES.

Of this kind of tools there have been a great number invented at different timesboth for the purpofe of being drawn by horfes, and ufed with the hand. Mr. Cook’simproved horfe-hoe is unqueftionably a good implement for hoeing crops at certaindiftances ; but for narrow irregular diftances the expanding horfe-hoe, contrivedby Mr. Amos, is probably a preferable inftrument, as its moveable lhares render itcapable of being regulated to different fpaces, according as the crops may have beendrilled with greater or lefs intervals. It will be found moft ufeful on light friablefoils, and where the ground is in a mellow condition. This hoe is conftantly madeufe of by fome good farmers in Lincolnfhire for beans, cabbages, potatoes, and fuch-like crops, and found to be very effective *.

M c Daugals’s improved Hoe is conftrutted on a fimple principle, and anfwers thevarious purpofes of a hand-hoe with great eafe and convenience, efpecially wherethe grain or pulfe has been fown in equidiftant intervals. The wheel in this in-

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Young’s Survey of Lincolnftiire.