. Rudimentary treatise on agricultural engineering . r adjusting the varying length of the driving shaft. A seedbox is made to fix on the corn box, for the purpose of sowingclover and other small seeds broadcast at the same time asbarley is being drilled; or it may be attached without thecorn box, and used for sowing turnips or other small seeds;or it may be converted into a horse-hoe, by attaching hoesto the levers instead of coulter shares. HOB>SBY S DRILL TOR SMALL OCCLPIEBS. This is a very simple and cheap machine, and well adaptedto the wants of small occupiers; it is made to work on t
. Rudimentary treatise on agricultural engineering . r adjusting the varying length of the driving shaft. A seedbox is made to fix on the corn box, for the purpose of sowingclover and other small seeds broadcast at the same time asbarley is being drilled; or it may be attached without thecorn box, and used for sowing turnips or other small seeds;or it may be converted into a horse-hoe, by attaching hoesto the levers instead of coulter shares. HOB>SBY S DRILL TOR SMALL OCCLPIEBS. This is a very simple and cheap machine, and well adaptedto the wants of small occupiers; it is made to work on theridge, and deposit turnip or mangold-wurtzel seed, with orwithout manures; it may be fitted with rollers before andafter the manure coulter, with a double-actioned lever. Themanure and seed coulter act independently of each other;the manure can be deposited deep, and covered, and the seedat a shallower depth, as in the large and more expensive SEED MACHINES. 97 implements. Two-row ridge-drills of the same character arealso made by the same hornsbys drill for small occupiers. DEOP DEILLS. Of these several varieties exist; they are for the purposeof depositing the seed in patches, and fixed intervals apart,and more resembling the action of dibbling than are constructed in many respects similar to ordinarydrills, but with this difference, that they have at the bottomof the delivery-spouts a chamber containing a valve, whichregulates the egress of the seed in the manner beforedescribed. SEED MACHINES Are long triangular-shaped boxes, having a small shaftrunning through them; upon this are fitted a number oflittle brushes, which, as they revolve, force the seed throughapertures in the fore-side of the box, which is carried ona small barrow, on which it is laid crosswise. 98 DIBBLING MACHINES. Fig. 25
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