Wholesale catalogue of seeds, implements, fertilizers, insecticides for market gardeners and truckers : spring 1905 edition . e cutting is rapid and one man can easilykeep pace with the Aspinwall Planter The_ work of cutting enough seed by hand to plant ten, twenty or thirtyacres is tedious and tiresome, occupying a number of days. The use of thecutter enables the crop to be put in when the ground is in proper condition, whenthe season and opportunitypresents itself. In operation the plunger israised with one hand, usingthe other to place the^ potatobetween the jaws, with theseed end next to t
Wholesale catalogue of seeds, implements, fertilizers, insecticides for market gardeners and truckers : spring 1905 edition . e cutting is rapid and one man can easilykeep pace with the Aspinwall Planter The_ work of cutting enough seed by hand to plant ten, twenty or thirtyacres is tedious and tiresome, occupying a number of days. The use of thecutter enables the crop to be put in when the ground is in proper condition, whenthe season and opportunitypresents itself. In operation the plunger israised with one hand, usingthe other to place the^ potatobetween the jaws, with theseed end next to the plug is adjustable, makinga smaller or larger cutting ofseed, as may be desired. Bysetting the plug near the knife,the end containing manysmall worthless eyes may besliced off and screened fromthe seed. The seed is cut bypressing the plunger down, onepotato being cut at a desired, the potato may behalved or quartered. Thousands of our cuttersare in use among practical andprogressive growers, and wehave yet to learn of an instancein which the machine has failedto give entire , *@~ Send far our Implement Catalogue Which Illustratis ard Describes all theLatest Hand and Horse Power Tools and Implements. <&& PETER HENDERSON & CO., NEW YORK.—WHOLESALE CATALOGUE—IMPLEMENTS. 57 The New *&* d?* t?* <j9*r Aspinwall Potato Planter,- SHOWINGFERTILIZESATTACH-MENT. An automatic machine, requiring only a team of horses with driver to plant five to eight acres a day. Itplants either whole or cut potatoes, 10, 13, 15, 17, 21 or 26 inches apart, as desired. It plants in a perfectlystraight row, rows any distance apart required. It opens the furrow, 3 to 9 inches deep, as set, drops theseed, covers it with moist under earth and marks for the next row, all in one operation; and if the fertilizerattachment is used, it will sow fertilizer at the same time, placing the fertilizer just below the seed, aftersufficient earth has fallen upon them an
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