. Effective farming; a text-book for American schools. Agriculture. Farm Machinery 455 opened and closed by the mechanism of the implement. The endgate seeder is a metal hopper that is attached to the end- gate of a wagon. The seed is placed in the hopper and is dis- tributed by means of a mechanism supplied with power from a sprocket attached to the wheel of the wagon. Grain drills. — These are the implements generally employed for planting the cereal crops (Fig. 48). There are several types manufactured, but they all consist essentially of the wheels, the supporting frame, the hopper, the fe
. Effective farming; a text-book for American schools. Agriculture. Farm Machinery 455 opened and closed by the mechanism of the implement. The endgate seeder is a metal hopper that is attached to the end- gate of a wagon. The seed is placed in the hopper and is dis- tributed by means of a mechanism supplied with power from a sprocket attached to the wheel of the wagon. Grain drills. — These are the implements generally employed for planting the cereal crops (Fig. 48). There are several types manufactured, but they all consist essentially of the wheels, the supporting frame, the hopper, the feeding mechan- ism, the tubes that convey the grain to the ground, the furrow openers, and the chains or wheels that cover the grain. In some localities drills are provided with fertilizer and grass-seed attachments. Corn- and cotton-planters. — These machines are of two types — hand planters and horse-drawn planters. The former are. Fig. 208. — One-horse corn-planter. used for corn and are employed where only small areas are planted or for replanting missing hills. The horse-drawn planters are either two-horse or one-horse. The two-horse planter drops the corn in hills or in drills at certain regular distances apart and plants two rows at a time (Fig. 39). The one-horse planter. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Sampson, Harry Oscar, 1879-. New York, Macmillan
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