. Charles V. Mapes'. Agricultural machinery. Fig. 137. Billing's Improved Planter and Fertil. izer. Fig. 136. Howe's Eagle Seed Sower. This machine, Fig. 137, is made to be drawn by one horse or mule, and for plant- ing cotton, corn, broom corn, beans, etc., and dropping a fertilizer with the seed. It is of durable and simple construction, not liable to get out of order, so that any person of ordinary tact can at once un- derstand and manage it; and is adapted to work with certain and good effect on stony and sward land, as well as on mel- low intervale or other smooth land. The hopper above t
. Charles V. Mapes'. Agricultural machinery. Fig. 137. Billing's Improved Planter and Fertil. izer. Fig. 136. Howe's Eagle Seed Sower. This machine, Fig. 137, is made to be drawn by one horse or mule, and for plant- ing cotton, corn, broom corn, beans, etc., and dropping a fertilizer with the seed. It is of durable and simple construction, not liable to get out of order, so that any person of ordinary tact can at once un- derstand and manage it; and is adapted to work with certain and good effect on stony and sward land, as well as on mel- low intervale or other smooth land. The hopper above the beams is made with two apartments, one for the seed and the other for the fertilizer. By a very sim- ple but sure and unerring arrangement of the working parts of the machine, it may be gauged to drop any desired quantity of seed, and of fertilizer with it, at any dis- tance apart, in hills or in drills, of equal depth—the seed being dropped in the fur- row opened by the share below, falling through the rear or hollow standard of the share to the bottom of the furrow, and the fertilizer at the same instant being drop- ped through the same hollow standard and deposited with the seed; the curved iron blades, directly in rear of the share, cover the seed and fertilizer to the desired and a uniform depth ; and the broad wheel, by which the machine is moved, rolls or presses the soil down upon the seed much more uniformly than is ever done by the hand hoe. Thus, with this machine, the operator is not only enabled to plant his seeds rapidly, at any desired distance and depth, but also at the same time. 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 Mapes, Charles Victor, 1836-1916. [from old catalog]. New York, M'Crea & Miller
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