100 On a new Corn Planter. 



structions — this is to move on the same plain with the 

 bottom of the runners ; the wheel, two feet in diameter, 

 and the pins four inches long, making the whole diameter 

 two feet eight inches; the cylinder under the hopper 

 should be three and a half or four inches long, and four 

 inches in diameter, having four notches to receive four or 

 five grains each, the notches to be constructed after the 

 form of the model ; the cylinder should have iron gud- 

 geons, neatly turned, to run in metal ; the hopper twenty 

 inches long, and ten inches deep. 



It is to be understood, that previous to the machine 

 being used, the ground should be ploughed and harrowed 

 as usual, but not furrowed out, the machine performing 

 the whole business of furrowing, planting, covering and 

 levelling at the same time, and with quite as much ra- 

 pidity as the ground is furrowed out in the common way. 

 Ten acres have been planted in one day by my machine, 

 without any previous furrowing. The advantages of its 

 use are, that the corn is regularly planted at equal dis- 

 tances, without any previous laying out of the ground : 

 it is all covered of an equal depth and with fine mould, 

 the clods being pushed out of the way, and the fine earth 

 passing the sides of the furrower falling on it. It is be- 

 lieved that more corn has been raised in proportion on a 

 given quantity of ground, by its being thus regularly- 

 planted and evenly covered. There is a strap or rope to 

 draw up the hopper and prevent the grain passing out, 

 when turning at the head landing. The machine being 

 on runners, it is more steady in its movements and more 

 manageable than if it were on wheels. 



Isaac Conard. 



Roberts Faux^ 

 Sec'y, FhUad. Agric, Soc. 



