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The essay advocates replacing deep ploughing with frequent shallow tillage and the use of seed drills and horse-drawn hoes to aerate soil, control weeds, and increase yields while cutting labor and fodder costs. It explains principles of vegetation and tillage, provides practical instructions and illustrated descriptions of implements, offers comparative profit calculations, addresses objections to adoption, and urges landowners to conduct careful experiments. Advice covers timing and technique for hoeing, seed placement, and instrument use to promote plant growth and efficient cultivation.

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Title: Horse-hoeing husbandry

or, an essay on the principles of vegetation and tillage. Designed to introduce a new method of culture; whereby the produce of land will be increased, and the usual expence lessened. Together with accurate descriptions and cuts of the instruments employed in it.

Author: Jethro Tull

Release date: November 14, 2024 [eBook #74741]

Language: English

Original publication: London: A. Millar, 1762

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Horse-Hoeing Husbandry:

OR,

An ESSAY on the PRINCIPLES

OF

Vegetation and Tillage.

Designed to introduce

A New Method of Culture;

WHEREBY

The Produce of Land will be increased, and the
usual Expence lessened.

Together with

Accurate Descriptions and Cuts of the Instruments
employed in it.


By JETHRO TULL, Esq;
Of Shalborne in Berkshire.


The Fourth Edition, very carefully Corrected.


To which is prefixed,

A New PREFACE by the Editors, addressed to all concerned in Agriculture.




LONDON:

Printed for A. Millar, opposite to Catharine-street
in the Strand.

M.DCC.LXII.