Horse-hoeing Husbandry

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Author

Tull, Jethro, 1674-1741

Title

Horse-hoeing husbandry : or, an essay on the principles of vegetation and tillage. Designed to introduce a new method of culture; whereby the produce of land will be increased, and the usual expence lessened. Together with accurate descriptions and cuts of the instruments employed in it.

Original Publication

London: A. Millar, 1762.

Credits

Peter Becker, Harry Lamé and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Language

English

LoC Class

S: Agriculture

Subject

Tillage

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 74741

Release Date

November 14, 2024

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Horse-Hoeing Husbandry:
2. 2.THE PREFACE .
3. 3.CHAP . I. Of Roots and Leaves . — A Method how to find the Distance to which Roots extend Horizontally. — Remarks on the Mints, &c.
4. 4.CHAP . II. Of Food of Plants .
5. 5.CHAP . III. Of Pasture of Plants .
6. 6.CHAP . IV. Of DUNG.
7. 7.CHAP . V. Of Tillage .
8. 8.CHAP . VI. Of Hoeing .
9. 9.CHAP . VII. Of Weeds .
10. 10.CHAP . VIII. Of Turneps .
11. 11.CHAP . IX. Of Wheat . — Of Partitions.
12. 12.CHAP . X. Of Smuttiness .
13. 13.CHAP . XI. Of Blight . — First, Want of Nourishment . — Secondly, Want of Air . — Thirdly, Want of the Sun’s Rays .
14. 14.CHAP . XII. Of St. Foin .
15. 15.CHAP . XIII. Of Luserne .
16. 16.CHAP . XIV. Of Change of Species .
17. 17.CHAP . XV. Of Change of Individuals .
18. 18.CHAP . XVI. Of Ridges .
19. 19.CHAP . XVII. Of Differences between the Old and the New Husbandry. — II. Of the different Goodness of a Crop. — III. The Certainty of a Crop. — IV. The Condition in which the Land is left after a Crop.
20. 20.CHAP . XVIII. Of Ploughs .
21. 21.CHAP . XIX. The Description of a Four-coulter’d Plough.
22. 22.CHAP . XX. Of the Drill-Boxes. — The Mortise . — The Setting-Screw .
23. 23.CHAP . XXI. Of the Wheat-Drill .
24. 24.CHAP . XXII. Of the Turnep-Drill.
25. 25.CHAP . XXIII. Of the Hoe-Plough , &c.
26. 26.AN APPENDIX CONCERNING The making of the Drill , and the Hoe-Plough , &c. — Explanation of Plate VII. — An Appendix to Chap. IX. of Wheat, p. 138. containing Memoranda for the Practisers of this Husbandry.
27. 27.INDEX . — Transcriber’s Notes

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