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On a new Corn Planter^ By John Conard. 



Lampeter township, Lancaster Co, fPenn.J 



llth mo, (Nov,) 8th, 1819. 



Sir, 



Having invented and brought into use a machine 

 called a Corn planter, for the purpose of planting Indian 

 corn, which has been found by the experience of my 

 neighbours and myself for two years past, to be extremely 

 useful in facilitating the planting of corn in an improved 

 manner, 1 herewith forward a model (not made to scale) 

 for the use of members of the Society and others, who 

 may choose to have them constructed ; not desiring any 

 further remuneration for my invention than the satisfac- 

 tion arising from agriculturists generally having the liberty 

 of constructing and using it free of any expense for the 

 privilege. The description is as follows : viz. 



The sled is made of 2| inch plank, five feet long and 

 one foot deep ; the runners placed two feet apart in the 

 clear ; the cutter before, which is for dividing a sod or 

 any hard substance, should sink 3| inches below the 

 bottom of the runners ; the opener or furrow maker is 3 

 inches wide and sinks two inches below the bottom of 

 the runners ; the shoe, out of which the grain issues, 

 should be somewhat shorter than the opener, and the 

 aperture in it about an inch in diameter ; the tw^o pins or 

 harrow teeth behind to sink one inch below the bottom of 

 the runners ; the clearing block, which will break the 

 clods and level the ground, is made of plank, and may be 

 one foot in length on each side, and should be fixed so 

 loose as to accommodate itself in some measure to ob- 



