The Book Of The Landed Estate PDF Download

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1869 edition. Excerpt: ... used a plough for some years manufactured by the Messrs Howard of Bedford, and found it very useful both in reclaiming new land and in deepening and stirring land which has been in cultivation. Fig. 89 is a sketch of the one I refer to. With four horses it will plough to a depth of one foot. The mould-board can be unscrewed and taken off, and a subsoil body put on, as shown in fig. 90. The cost of these implements are--for the plough, 4, 17s. 6d.; and for the subsoiling body, 17s. 6d. It is, however, better to have two of these ploughs, and also two subsoil bodies, when the subsoiling-plough should be put in the same furrow following the other plough, and thus it can be stirred up to a greater depth. The ploughing and subsoiling of a portion of moorland on this estate with Howard's ploughs, as described, cost about 4 per imperial acre. Section 5.--The Reclamation of Waste Lands by Steam-Power. I am not aware that steam-power has been much employed in stirring up waste lands with a view to reclamation. Where there are no large holdfast stones bedded in the soil, there is no reason why it should not be so employed. There are many large portions of waste land in this country which are free from large stones and roots, and which might be advantageously brought into cultivation by means of steam-power. There were about one hundred acres of moorland on this estate in 1867, the site of which is comparatively level; the soil is a peaty loam, with a subsoil of a sandy character resting on rock. It was covered with heath intermixed with a few coarse grasses and fern. Considering that it was a good subject for cultivation, the proprietor, Major Stapylton, decided upon having it brought into cultivation, and to have it done by...