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shaken to throw out the seed. Its capabilities as a 

 sower are strongly lauded by Dr. Anderson, by whom 

 it is averred that many hundreds of persons who could 

 neither have purchased nor used a fine apparatus, had, 

 by the possession of it, been induced to enter keenly 

 into the cultivation of turnips. And he held that, 

 " To induce such persons to go forward on a small 

 scale is an object of much greater consequence than to 

 have kings and princes, and the great men of the earth, 

 displaying with a pompous parade a complicated ap- 

 paratus which would prove the ruin of a poor man to 

 attempt to purchase." And so, when the century was 

 near its close, an implement like the ordinary turnip 

 sower for horse haulage, had evidently been regarded, 

 even by men of advanced ideas, as rather an elaborate 

 piece of mechanism. 



