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warranted to operate satisfactorily, which it will do, if 

 the machine be used with the skill required. I have 

 penned the foregoing suggestions, more for the benefit 

 of farmers, than for the pecuniary advantage of the 

 manufacturer of the machine. I have alluded to the 

 difficulties which will be met with in operating such a 

 seed sower, so that a common laborer might not be dis 

 appointed, when using it. 



SOWING GRAIN BROADCAST. 



Every farmer should learn to sow all kinds of grain 

 and grass seed broadcast. I say he should learn to do 

 it. Yery few men are able to sow anything evenly. 

 On some kinds of land, a drill cannot be used. 



In sowing, either by furrows or stakes, always throw 

 the grain from the margin of the field ; because one can 

 sow much more evenly up to the margin by throwing 

 away from it, than he can to throw toward it. Let the 

 grain slip off the ends of the fingers, and not between the 

 thumb and fingers, nor between the fingers. Make cal 

 culations how w r ide to sow at one through, or once 

 across ; and endeavor to give the grain such a cast that 

 it will come down as evenly as possible. 



In sowing by middle furrows and ridges, which, if the 

 ploughing has been done correctly, will be just twenty- 

 two feet apart, I always sow just eleven feet to a cast. 

 I can usually sow more evenly by walking about mid 

 way from each edge of the strip that I am sowing. It 

 matters little where a sower walks, if he only distributes 

 his grain evenly. 



Casting the grain all one way is the most approved 

 manner of sowing, with many farmers. When sowing 



