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and Indian corn. I annex a cut of it with his own description. 



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" A beam four feet in length has four consecutive teeth, simi- 

 lar to those of a Cultivator, inserted into it. A wheel fourteen 

 inches in diameter and four inches thick is attached to the hind 

 end of the beam to regulate the whole, and to beat down the 

 loam which is thrown upon the seed to bury it. 



The hind tooth is hollow, and the hopper is placed above it 

 containing the seed corn. Cogs on the wheel strike a rod 

 which pimips the seed corn out of the bottom of the hopper and 

 lets it fall through the hollow tooth into the channel which 

 has been cut in the soil by the four consecutive teeth ; the corn 

 falling through the tooth to the bottom of it is buried suffi- 

 ciently deep for vegetation. 



Rows are made in one direction, and the hills are dropped at 

 the distance of one, two, or four feet from each other, at the 

 option of the planter. A thirty acre field may be planted by a 

 double inaclmie, with one man, one boy and one horse, laboring 

 ten hours and travelling three miles per hour. 



Nothing but the finest loam of the field ever falls on the seed 

 corn, and it is planted more exactly than is usually done by 

 hand." 



The same farmer has invented a machine for sowing grass 

 seed, which is drawn by a horse and drops the seed with great 

 uniformity. It seems to me well adapted for the purposes de- 

 signed. 



XIX. Nurseries. — 1. The nurseries of Jona. Winship 6c 

 brother are in Brighton, in this county, four miles from Boston. 



