. Catalogue of agricultural and horticultural implements ... point, with a regular, not a or straggling motion, and of course is easiei for the team. Either part is easily lifted when in motion, to let off any trash that may have collected among the teeth. Sufficient attention is not j)aid to harrowing. It is the next most important operation after plowing. The harrow should run from four to six inches deep, cutting up all the lumps, and leaving the ground in a finely pulverized state. These harrows have from fourteen to thirty teeth. Improved Brush S-eed-Sower This machine, with all its essen
. Catalogue of agricultural and horticultural implements ... point, with a regular, not a or straggling motion, and of course is easiei for the team. Either part is easily lifted when in motion, to let off any trash that may have collected among the teeth. Sufficient attention is not j)aid to harrowing. It is the next most important operation after plowing. The harrow should run from four to six inches deep, cutting up all the lumps, and leaving the ground in a finely pulverized state. These harrows have from fourteen to thirty teeth. Improved Brush S-eed-Sower This machine, with all its essential parts, has been long in use in this country and in England, and is found io be the only one that plants all. the variously formed small seeds rapid, ly and with precision. The cut represents the machine Fig. 19. with the hopper and appa- ratus for sowing the small garden-seeds, such as onions, turnips, carrots, pars- nips, beets, &c.; and also millet and other small grains in drills. It it easily arranged to plant a greater or less quantity, as may be required. By substituting another hopper, which fits in the place of the present one when removed, and with different dropping fixtures, peas, beans, corn, &c., may be planted in drills, or in hills from 6 inches to two feet apart. It is but a mo- ment's work to exchange one for the other, and in this, the quantity of seed planted is easily regulated. The operator moves forward as with a wheel-barrow, when the drill is opened, and the seed ta deposited, covered, and the soil compressed at a single operation. An acre with rows two feet apart, is easily sown in three hours. Directions for using, accompany each machine. Bachelder's Corn-Planter. This is one of the best machines we have yet seen for planting corn. The seed is put into the hopper above the beam, ^^=and as the horse moves along, the share below Fig. 20. opens the furrow; the corn is then dropped by arms moving horizontally. These arms have holes that can be
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