. Descriptive catalogue of a choice collection of vegetable, agricultural and flower seeds, gladiolus, lilies, and other summer flowering bulbs. Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Nurseries (Horticulture) New York (State) Catalogs. The superiority of this Seed Soever over all others is in its uniformity of sowing all kinds of Seeds: its easy adjustment to any farmer's Avagon ; its durability and breadth of cast. At the walking-gate of a horse it will sow from twelve to fifteen acres per hour. It is impossible for the machine to choke, no matter how dirty the seed may be. With t
. Descriptive catalogue of a choice collection of vegetable, agricultural and flower seeds, gladiolus, lilies, and other summer flowering bulbs. Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Nurseries (Horticulture) New York (State) Catalogs. The superiority of this Seed Soever over all others is in its uniformity of sowing all kinds of Seeds: its easy adjustment to any farmer's Avagon ; its durability and breadth of cast. At the walking-gate of a horse it will sow from twelve to fifteen acres per hour. It is impossible for the machine to choke, no matter how dirty the seed may be. With this machine the farmer can sow all kinds of cereals a greater breadth than any machine in the market, and will be far more uniform than if soAvn by the hand. Its simplicity places it in the lead of all broadcast Seed Sowers. • It can be attached to any ordinary Avagon'without the slightest damage to it. The'rapidity and uniformity AA'ith Avliich it distributes both Seeds and Fertilizers should not only highly recommend it, but make it an indispensable machine Avith eA-ery farmer. 'The farmer can regulate by the guage in the hopper the quantity he Avishes to soat per acre. Taking the capacity of the best Drill to be 8 to 10 acres per day, farmers can judge AAhich is the most economical, Avhen this machine AA-ill soav from 12 to 15 acres per hovir. AVe also wish to call attention to the fact that this machine does not require the ground to be prepared further than ploAving. The harroAving can be done after the soAviiig. And it is scarcely necessary to state that this machine will soaa- on ground Avhere no drill would dare to venture. "SYith the No. 1 Machine Ave can soav the folloAving with uniformitv • Wheat, 50 feet ; Oats, 40 feet; Barley, 50 feet : Clover, 40 feet ; BuckAvheat, 50 feet ; Timothy, 35 feet ; Eye, 50 feet; Orchard Grass, 25 feet. No. 2, or hand, about one-half of the aboA-e distanc'e. Price, No. 1 Macbine, complete, $ No. 3 Machine, complete,
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