On a simple Wheat Drill. isS 



while the man with ease lifts up the plough, bodily, 

 and sets the wheel in the track of the outside drill, tak- 

 ing care to place it far enough back for the grain to 

 have time to run down the funnels, and commence de- 

 livery in the drills at the proper place. The horse should 

 not stop until the through has been performed, as the 

 seed delivered from the axle, previously to stopping, 

 will run down, and the whole will be deposited imme- 

 diately under the funnels— but if an unavoidable acci- 

 dent should make it necessary to stop the horse, be- 

 fore the through is performed, the plough must be lift- 

 ed up, and the horse backed sufficiently for the fun- 

 nels to commence delivery at the proper place, or there 

 will be a vacancy left unsown. 



The person from whom I purchased this plough, 

 near Downing Town, conceived that it sowed rather 

 more than one bushel per acre, on his grounds ; but it 

 was found here to sow but little more than three pecks 

 per acre, and the notches in the axle were altered to 

 sow nearly two bushels per acre. 



The farmers who have used this plough, say that 

 the falling in of the mould after the coulters, forms a 

 sufficient covering for the grain, and that the moulder- 

 ing down of the soil through the winter, is very bene- 

 ficial to the crop ; but in this I believe they are as 

 much mistaken as they are in many other things. My 

 grounds were level and in fine tilth, yet the trivial in- 

 equalities of the surface were sufficient to prevent some 

 of the coulters from sinking sufficiently deep for the 

 mould to fall into the furrows and cover the grain, 

 while the rest of the coulters went quite deep enough 

 to effect this purpose : a rake harrow, attached behind 

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