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DRILL Ht)E HARROW. 



VI. 



Account of a Drill Horse Hoe for Turnips, communicated 

 by Mr. Charles Waistell.* 



Drilling turnips ^N consequence of the premiums, which the Society of 

 decidedly pre- ^ r ^ s j^g offered, and bestowed for several years, on the 

 ferable to broad- ' . ,,■■»«* ,. . 



ttSt( comparative culture of turnips, the drill practice has ap- 



peared so decidedly superior to the broad-cast method, that 

 they have thought it unnecessary to continue them. At the 

 same time they have given a figure and description of a use- 

 ful drill hoe and harrow, with which they observe they 

 shall probably finish the subject, and which therefore we 

 shall lay before our readers nearly in Mr. Waistell's words. 



Hoe harrow for 

 turnips and 

 other wide 

 drilled crops. 



Its use. 



Near Barnard 

 Castle turnips 

 drilled at 27 

 inches. 



Dear Sir, 



I have ordered a new agricultural implement to be left 

 for a short time at the Society's Repository for inspection. 

 It is called a hoe harrow, and is, as its name imports, a hoe 

 and harrow combined. For destroying the weeds, and pul- 

 verising the soil in the intervals of drilled turnips, and of 

 other crops drilled sufficiently wide to be horse-hoed, \ 

 know not of any other implement of equal efficacy. 



It enables the farmer to cultivate those intervals as com- 

 pletely as a well wrought fallow, so long as the horse can 

 travel therein, without injury to the growing crop. I know 

 not who the meritorious inventor is. The first I saw was 

 a few years ago at West Park, near Barnard Castle. This 

 was brought from Carlisle by my brother, and many have 

 been made from that pattern, and are now in use, and are 

 highly approved of by farmers in the neighbourhood of 

 Barnard Castle, where the turnip crops are now generally 

 raised in drills about 27 inches apart. This mode was first 

 introduced there about 23 years ago, before which time they 

 were all sown broad-cast. 



An implement of husbandry, possessing such superior 

 utility, as this hoe harrow seems to me to possess, isdeserv-. 

 ing of being made known as generally and as speedily as pos- 

 sible. I conceive this would be best effected through the 



. * Trans, of the Soc. of Arts for 1806. 



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