382 Of the Turnep-Drill. Chap. XXIL 



lower Surface of the Beam, and inclofe the lower 

 End of the other Spout within it: It is made of thin 

 hammer'd Brafs (as is the other). The Edges of the 

 Piece of Brafs, which make this Spout, arejoin'don 

 its hinder Part, for the fame Reafon that they are fo 

 in the other Spout. At b there is a Jag cut in one 

 of thefe Edges, and rais'd upwards, by which Jag the 

 String being tied on the Spout juft below, is hindered 

 from flipping upwards. 



Joining to the higher! Part, and made with Part of 

 the fame Piece of Brafs, turn'd back from the End of 

 the Spout, is its Hinge C, near Three quarters of an 

 Inch long in its Hollow. 



D is a thin Piece of Iron, half an Inch broad, and 

 a little longer than the Top of the Sheat, by which 

 the Spout is held up : This Piece of Iron is riveted 

 by a Rivet pafling thro' an Hole at c, and thro' the 

 Sheat, juft before the Trunk, and thro' another Piece 

 of Iron on theoppofite Side; both the Pieces of Iron, 

 with their upper Edges touching the Beam, being 

 thus riveted to the Sheat. 



The Spout is pinned in by the Screw E, pafling as 

 by the prick'd Line F thro' the Hole G, and alfo 

 thro' the Hinge C, and fcrew'd into the Hole of the 

 oppofite Piece of Iron, correfponding with the Hole 

 G ; and then it will appear as in Fig. 4. 



Inftead of thefe Pieces of Iron, we ibmetimes ufe 

 Pieces of Wood, a little broader and thicker, nail'd 

 on the Sheat. 



The Ufe of this Spout is for carrying half of the 

 Seed backwards, fo that it may drop upon the Cha- 

 nel, after the Earth is fallen into it : By this means 

 the Seed lying very (hallow, being only cover'd by 

 a little Earth rais'd by the Harrow, by its Shallowness 

 comes up in moift Weather, fooner than the other 

 half, which lies deeper in the Ground; but if the 

 Weather be dry when planted, the deeper half, by the 

 Moifture of the Earth from the Dews, will come up 



firft, 



