AMERICAN HOME GARDEN. 



Fig. 28. 



ward covered by raking, 

 one who is rheumatic. 



Hand seed-sower. 



such as to throw the small 

 lumps first upon the seed 

 rather than the finer soil. 

 This is undesirable, and 

 should be obviated by gear- 

 ing a small spring-governed 

 | rake after the coverer, or by 

 ,1 some other device. 

 g The sowing-tube, Fig. 29, 

 ^ is a tin tube, about four feet 

 I long and an inch in diame- 

 \1 ter, with a small bend or lip 

 ^ at the lower end, and at the 



upper a funnel mouth. The 

 sower, holding the tube in 

 his left hand, draws its low- 

 er end after him in a previ- 

 ously-prepared drill, drop- 

 ping the seed as he goes, in 

 due proportion, into the fun- 

 nel, whence it passes to the 

 prepared drill, being after- 

 It is suited to the mere amateur, or 



Fig. 29. 



Sowing-tube. 



