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Title: Agriculture, ancient and modern: a historical account of its principles and practice, exemplified in their rise, progress, and development
Year: 1866 (1860s)
Authors: Copland, Samuel
Subjects: Agriculture
Publisher: London, Virtue and company
Contributing Library: UMass Amherst Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Public Library

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aulty patch to be seen, and estimated at from five to six quarters per acre, foiming aperfect contrast with other crops in the district. And this superiority was ascribable tothe smashing-up system which had been adopted on the farm. After witnessingthese results, the writer, who is himself a considerable farmer, purchased a steamapparatus in June, 1861, and concludes his letter thus in November—The work of thefarm was never so forward as this season, with every prospect of getting my spring cornand roots planted at the earliest desirable period. I therefore feel much confidence inasserting that the cultivator is a most valuable adjunct on any farm of moderate size,whether the soil be light (as some of mine is) or heavy; nor can it be doubted thatsteam cultivation is the most important discovery of our day, and that it Avill do moreto increase the productiveness of our soils than any of the many improvements whichhave taken place in agricultural mechanics during the present century.
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THE HAEROW. Gil SECTION IX.THE HARROW. In the present state of cultivation, the harrow is an essential implement in theperformance of many operations besides that of covering in the seed. On the principleadopted in the construction of ploughs by the manufacturers, and patronised by thegenerality of farmers, different kinds of harrows are necessary adjuncts to the plough inthe comminution of the soil, which is, by the latter implement, broken up and tamedover in a condition most unfavourable to that operation. If tlie soil is of a tenaciouscharacter it requires, after such ploughing, to be first thorouglily dried, and then wellmoistened by rain, before it can be touched to any good purpose by the Drag orBrake. Bloomfield, in his Farmers Boy, has graphically described the perplexity oft)ie farmer in such case :— Boy, bring the harrows, Iry how far the rainHas soaked the clods ! He comes, but comes iu vai.i:Dry dust beneath the bubbling surface lurks.And mocks his pains the more, the m

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