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'Dire 5i ions for ufing the Machine. 



The ladle cylinder D (fee the plate) is furni'fhed with 

 cups or ladles of four different fizes for different forts of 

 grain or feeds, which may be diftinguifhed by the numt 

 bers I, 2, 3, 4. 



No. I, (the fmalleft fize) is calculated for turnip-feed, 

 clover-feed, cole-feed, rape, &c. and will fow fomething 

 more than one pound per ftatute acre. 



No. 2, for wheat, rye, hemp, flax, &c. and will fow 

 fomething more than one bufhel per acre. 



No. 3, for barley; and will fow one bulhel and a half 

 per acre. 



No. 4, for beans, oats, peafe, vetches, &c. and will 

 fow two bufhels per acre. 



Notwithftanding the above fpecified quantities of grain 

 or feeds, a greater or lefs quantity of each may be fown at 

 pleafure, by flopping up with a little clay, or by adding a 

 few ladles to each refpecStive box. The grain or feed in- 

 tended to be fown, muft be put in thofe boxes, to which 

 the cups or ladles as above defcribed refpectively belong, 

 an equal quantity into each box, and all the other boxes 

 empty. The ladle cylinder may be reverfed, or turned 

 end for end at pleafure, for different forts of grain, &c. 



For fowing beans, oats, peafe, &c. with a five-coulter 

 machine, four large ladles muft occafionally be applied at 

 equal diftances round thofe parts of the cylinder which 



fubtend 



