272 Drill Machine for foiuing Turnip-feed. 



of the intervals between the rows. I ufaally place my rows 

 at eighteen or twenty inches' diftance; and 1 wifh my plants 

 to ftand not more than fix inches apart in the row ; for 1 

 find that tin-ee fmall turnips weigh about as much as one 

 larixe turnip, are more folid, and I think more nutritious, 

 and certainly are much lefs apt to fufTer by unfavourable 

 weather. 'J'he ground between the rows is, of courfe, worked 

 with the hoe. Should the Society, at their next meeting, 

 approve of the inllriimcnt, and will afford it a place in their 

 repofitory, I will beg them to accept it; if not, I will re- 

 quell you to return it at your Icifure. I am, Sir, 



Your moft obedient fervant, 

 Elton, near Ludlow, ThOMAS AnDJIEW KxIGHT. 



June 11, I'-'oo. 



il/r. Charles Tnjlor. 



N.B. The angle which forms the edge of the wheel A, mufl: 

 be made more or lefs acute, and the inflrumcni more or lefs 

 heavy, proportional to the Itrength of the foil. I have fome- 

 times added weights of lead over the axis of the wheel, but 

 it will rarelv be found necelTIiry. I have tried the inftrument 

 on different foils, and I think it will anfwer on anv. A great 

 advantajre niav be derived by fowins turnips with it, at a 

 time when horfes, now commoulv ufed for tiie fame purpofe, 

 are encraged in other emplovments. A few days are fre- 

 quently ot importance in fowing turnips, which bv fortunate 

 rains have got a wonderful ftart of thofe which have been 

 fovvn a day or two later. 



Fig. 3. is a fe6linn, on a larger fcale, of the feed-box G, 

 in fig. 2. The wheel marked C, is alfo the fatne as in that 

 figure: it is fixed upon the axis of the cylinder I, which is 

 pierced upon the furface with holes at K, for the A^ed. This 

 cylinder turns round within a groove at the bottom of the box, 

 and is fo well fitted therein, that no feed falls from the box 

 but what is delivered bv the holes K. A fmall brufh, marked 

 L, rubs again fl the cylinder, to clear out any feeds 'which 

 may remain in the holes. 



The feeds fail into the tube underneath the cylinder, and 

 from thence into the channel mixdc by the indenting rim of 

 the iron wheel. 



The loofc chains which follow, cover the feeds with earth, 

 as before mentioned. 



Fig. 4. a front view of the wheel, exhibiting its ed^c. 



XLVII. Notices 



