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Of the Machine t ' when made to be ujed hy Handi 



THE difference of the machine in this cafe is, that it ismadd 

 lighter, with but three fpouts, without Ihafts, aind is driven for- 

 ward by the handles. It hath aifo a bolt in front, which being 

 pufhed in by the thumb, releafes the machine : fo that it can 

 then eafily be placed in a perpendicular pofition. This altera- 

 tion is neceffary to keep the handles of a convenient height, in 

 fowing up and down a hill, where the flope is confiderable ; and 

 is done while the machine is turning at the end of the length, 

 —The method of regulating and ufing it, is the fame as when 

 made to be drawn by a horfe. 



Of the Machine i when conJlniHed to be nfed with 



a Plough. 



THIS is, without doubt, the moft ufeful application of the 

 machine: and it can be fixed without difficulty to any kind of 

 plough, in the fame manner as to that reprefented in Plate I. 



The advantages arifing from the ufe of it are great and nume- 

 rous; for, bcfide the increafe in the crop, which will be infured 

 by the feeds being broad-call with a mathematical nicety ; a 

 large portion of feed, (the value of which alone, in a few 

 months, will amount to more than the price of the machine) and 

 the feedfman's labour, will be faved. The feed may likewife be 

 fown either under, or over furrow; or one caft each way, as is 

 praftifed by fome farmers. The feed alfo, being caft by the 

 machine upon the frelh ploughed land, may be immediately har- 

 rowed in, before the mould has loll any part of its moifture; 

 which in a dry feafon will greatly promote the crop. In drilling 

 any kind of grain, pulfe, or feed, it polTefles every property 

 that can be wifliedforin the beft drill-plough, nor will it (as moll 

 of them do) bruife the feed, or feed irregularly. Theconftruc- 

 tion of the machine is the fame as the large ones, except being 

 made with one hopper and fpout inftead of feveral, and the apron 

 moveable inftead of being fixed, as may be feen by infpefting 

 Fig. 4.* The only alteration neceffary, to make the machine 



* See alfo the References. 



broad-caft. 



