The theory and practice of the drill husbandry
Subtitle: founded upon philosophical principles, and confirmed by experience ... illustrated with exact drawings of all the respective parts, and a perspective view of each machine compleat on nine copper plates, whereby every farmer will be enabled to make his own drill machines
By: by William Amos
Edition: 2nd ed.
Series: Goldsmiths'-Kress library of economic literature -- no. 18419; Making of the Modern World
Publisher: [s.n.]
Published: 1802
Place of publication: [s.l.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 244
Subjects: Drills (Planting machinery)
Notes: Goldsmiths'-Kress no. 18419.
Table of contents: title: I. A dissertation on the natural food of plants.; title: II. A dissertation on the shape and size of the roots of such plants as are the object of field culture.; title: III. A dissertation on the superior advantages of the drill to the broadcast husbandry.; title: IV. Full directions for making two different kinds of drill machines, and a drill plough, for sowing or planting all kinds of grain, pulse, seeds, &c., on any kind of land, in any given quantity, and at any proper depth and distance required.; title: V. General directions for preparing the land, and for using the different machines, in the sowing or planting all kinds of grain, pulse, seeds, &c.; title: VI. Full directions for making several kinds of horse and hand hoes, with proper instructions for horse and hand hoeing all kinds of grain, pulse, seeds, &c., with different kinds of hoes.