Successful farming : a ready reference on all phases of agriculture for farmers of the United States and Canada . A Home-made 1 Courtesy of Orauge-Judd Company, N, Y. From Soils and Crops, by Hunt and Burkett,. FARM MACHINERY AND IMPLEMENTS 721 tilled are small. A variety of tillage implements is advantageous, andthe selection should meet the needs of the owner. Seeding Machines.—Until within the last century much of thesowing and planting of seeds was done by hand. Recently the broad-cast seeder has taken the place of broadcasting by hand, and the drilland planter have supplanted ha
Successful farming : a ready reference on all phases of agriculture for farmers of the United States and Canada . A Home-made 1 Courtesy of Orauge-Judd Company, N, Y. From Soils and Crops, by Hunt and Burkett,. FARM MACHINERY AND IMPLEMENTS 721 tilled are small. A variety of tillage implements is advantageous, andthe selection should meet the needs of the owner. Seeding Machines.—Until within the last century much of thesowing and planting of seeds was done by hand. Recently the broad-cast seeder has taken the place of broadcasting by hand, and the drilland planter have supplanted hand planting of seeds either in hills or end-gate seeder, used extensively for seeding oats, and the knapsackseeders, used for grasses and clovers, are an improvement over handseeding, but are subject to much the same defects as hand seeding. Thespeed of the distributor, the weight of the seed and the condition of the. <f^* #S^S$k .^. „-j^p*W^.y~*, .- v,v«~ »?:?** A Much Used Form of Corn wind all affect the distance seed will be thrown. Great care is, there-fore, necessary in the spacing of the passages back and forth across thefield in order to avoid uneven seeding. Broadcast seeders with long hoppers carried on two wheels givemuch better results than the sorts above mentioned. They are providedeither with the agitator feed or the force feed. The latter is the moresatisfactory. The former has a revolving agitator that passes over eachopening from which seed issues and prevents stoppage. The rate of seed-ing is controlled by adjusting the size of the openings in the bottoms ofthe hoppers. The seed either falls on a vibrating board or passes through Courtesy of The International Harvester Company, Chicago, 722 SUCCESSFUL FARMING fan-shaped spouts that distribute it evenly over the ground. The wheel-barrow seeder used for grasses and clovers has the same arrangement, bu
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