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broad-caft, or drill, is, in the former cafe to place the Apron B, 

 Fig. I, at the bottom of the machine, on the hooks FF, Hoping, 

 either towards the furrows, or the impioughed land, according as 

 it is intended to fow the feed, either over or under furrow.* 



To prepare it for drilling, inftead of the apron, place the long 

 ipout. Fig. 10, upon the brackets, on the front of the machine, 

 by the ears A A, to receive the feed from the upper fpout, and 

 fallen the lower end of it, by a fmall cord, to that hook upOn 

 which the apron is hung for broad-cafting, which is next the 

 plough, fee Fig. 3 ; the feed will then be diredled by the long 

 fpout, to the center of the furrow, near the heel of the plough. 

 The fpring for correcling the ftrength of the ftrcke, is necefTary 

 only when they are required to go along the fide of a confiderable 

 declivity. The machine, whe.n fixed to a plough, does not 

 require the fmalleil degree of fkill in ufing, as nothing is necef- 

 fary but to keep the hopper filled. f The accuracy with which 

 it will broad-caft, may in fome mcafure be conceived, by confi- 

 dering that the feed regularly defcends upon the apron or fhelf, 

 and is from thence fcattered upon the ground, in quantity exaftly 

 proportioned to the fpeed of the plough : alfo that each cafl: 

 fpreads to the third furrow; and by this means Ihuts upon the. 

 lad. In this manner it is continually filling up, till the whole 

 field is compieatly covered : fo tiiat it is impoffible to leave the 

 fmalleft fpace without its proper quantity of feed. 



When the plough is wanted for any other purpofe, the ma- 

 chine, with the wheel at the heel of the plough for giving it 

 motion, can be removed or replaced, at any time in five minutes. 



Plate IF. reprefents the machine fixed to a double- furrow 

 creafing plough, and prerared for drilling. As this plough may 

 not bf generally known, it will not be improper to obferve, that 

 it is chiefly ufed for creafing the land with furrows, (after it has 

 been once ploughed and harrowed) which method is neceflary, 



* Whenever the apron is required to be /liifted, it is done in Icfs tl)an a fccond 

 of time; as it only requires to be moved up or down, with tl.e haiiJ, wlicn a 

 catch fixes it. 



f The hopper will conuin a fufficlcnt quantity of feed to go upwards of 140 

 rods, before it will want refilling, when thr';e bufliel: iirj a half arifowno/ian acre. 



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