. Bliss and Sons' illustrated hand-book for the farm and garden for 1881 : containing a list of the best known and most poplular varieties of garden, field & flower seeds, selected from our large assortment of nearly three thousand varieties with brief directions for their culture. Nursery stock New York (State) Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Seeds Catalogs; Bulbs (Plants) Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Agricultural implements Catalogs; Gardening Catalogs. THE PHILADELPHIA BROADCAST SEED SOWER, For Sowing Oats, Barley, Wbeat, Rye, Buckwheat, Clover, Rice, Timothy, Lime,
. Bliss and Sons' illustrated hand-book for the farm and garden for 1881 : containing a list of the best known and most poplular varieties of garden, field & flower seeds, selected from our large assortment of nearly three thousand varieties with brief directions for their culture. Nursery stock New York (State) Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Seeds Catalogs; Bulbs (Plants) Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Agricultural implements Catalogs; Gardening Catalogs. THE PHILADELPHIA BROADCAST SEED SOWER, For Sowing Oats, Barley, Wbeat, Rye, Buckwheat, Clover, Rice, Timothy, Lime, Bone Dnst Fertilizers, Flaxseed and varieties of Grass Seeds. The superiority of tliis Seed Sower over all others is iu its uniformitj' of sowing all kinds of Seeds ; its easy adjustment to any farmer's wagon; its durability and breadth of cast. At the walking-gait 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 tlie seed may be. With this juachine 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 sown by the hand. Its simplicity places it in the lead of all broadcast Seed Sowers. It can be attached to any ordinary wagon without the slightest damage to it. The rapiditj' and unifoi niity with Avhich it distributes both Seeds and Fertilizers should not only highly recommend it, but make it an indispensable machine with every farmer in the country. The farmer can regulate by the gauge in tlie hopper the quantity he wishes to sow per acre. Taking the capacity of the best Drill to bo 8 to 10 acres per day, farmers can judge which is the most economical, wlicn this machine, weighing less than 100 pounds, will sow from 12 to acres per hour. Wo also wish to call attention to the fact that this macliine does not require the ground to be prepared further than plowing. The harrowing can be done after the sowing. And it is scarcely n
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