44 Bennetts Machine for Sowing Clover. 



wheat has been attained by the application of the roller 

 to this purpose. 



I have the honour, to be, Sir, with very- 

 great respect, your most obedient servant. 



Nicholas Ridgely. 



Account of Bennett's clover, and turnip sowing machine 



by George Logan, M. IX ^ 



To Richard Peters ; president of the Philadephia Society 

 for promoting Agriculture* 



Read March, 1816. 



The cultivation of clover is considered the basis of a 

 rotation of crops, on which is founded the improved sys- 

 tem of agriculture in the United States. Many of our 

 husbandmen are discouraged from adopting this valuable 

 mode of farming, on account of the delay and difficulty in 

 sowing an extensive field with light grass seeds by hand. 

 It is therefore with great pleasure I inform the society, 

 that I have received from a friend one of Bennett's ma- 

 chines, for sowing grass or turnip seeds, which promises 

 to be a most valuable addition to our implements of hus- 

 bandry. The experiments made with it at Stenton, in 

 sowing clover and timothy seeds, exceed my most san- 

 guine expectations. A man pushing the instrument be- 

 fore him, in the same manner as using a wheel-barrow, 

 will sow twenty acres per day, uninterrupted by wind or 

 a light rain. 



A perambulator is connected with the machine, to as- 

 certain the quantity of ground passed over, whilst employ- 

 ed in sowing. 



William Lehman, an ingenious carpenter in German- 

 town, has made one of these machines for Albanus Lo^ 



