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GENESEE FARMER. 



May. 



Pratt's Corn Planter and Seed Sower. 



Pratt's Com Planter, 



We have received an inquiry from a Seneca 

 county farmer relative to Corn Planters. He 

 wishes to know where a good machine, urorked 

 III horse power, may be obtained, and at what 

 {jfice. We are unable to give the desired infor- 

 in 'tion, — and presume there is not such an arti- 

 cie in the country, " PraWs Corn Planter and 

 tiecd Soiaer,'^ represented in the aljove engra- 

 ving, is, we believe, the only planting machine 

 IT anufacfured in this vicinity- It is favorably 

 ^•[)|)kcn of by those who have witnessed ils ope- 

 )ation. We have had no opportunity of ttrstJng 

 lis utility, and cannot speak of it from personal 

 ^^nowledge. The editor of the vSouthern Planter, 

 in a notice of the machine, says: 



♦'It is simple in its construction and unerring 

 in operation. Suppose the ground to be prepared 

 (or the seed, the wedge-like projection on the 

 (ace of the wlieel makes a furrow of the proper 

 depth, into which the seed are dropped through a 

 small tube leading to it. On the side edge of 

 the wheel are pin holes info which pins may be 

 screwed at pleasure ; in the revolution of the 

 wheel these pins strike and raise the projecting 

 end of the lever, by which a slide, connected 

 with the other end of the lever moving through 

 the bottom of the hopper, is drawn forward. In 

 this slide there is aa opening into whicli the 

 ■seed falls, and this movement of the lever draws 

 this opening forward over the upper end of the 

 tube through v/hich the seed falls into the furrow. 

 After the pin has passed round and let the lever 

 fall, the slide is drawn back into its original po- 

 Bition by a spring at the other end, and is again 

 ready for another operation. The hole in the 

 bottom of the hopper can be altered, at pleasure, 

 to pass different sized seeds, or different quanti- 

 ties of the same seed, and the position of the pins 

 can be varied according to the distance required 

 "between the droppings ; an apparatus is affixed 

 •which secures a regular and even covering of 

 the seed. 



"The machine is rolled forward by hand, and 

 the furrowing, drop])ing, and covering, are all 

 accomplished by the machine, saving thereby 

 the use (where the ground is checked) of two 

 horses, two plows and two hands, doing the work 

 with much more regularity than it can possibly 



be accomplished by the most skillful dropper.'* 



The machine is manufactured and for sale at 

 the Steam Factory of Mr, E, Taylor, No^ 6 

 Hill street, Rochester.- 



Mitchell's Map of New York.— We ars 

 indebted to the Rev. N. J, Rice, (general agent 

 for the sale of Mi*cheirs Maps in Western New 

 York,) for a large and splendid Map of this State, 

 with its counties,, towns, cities, villages, internal 

 improvements, &c. It is embellished with four 

 handsomely engraved views of important nation.' 

 al events that have occurred within the limits of 

 the State, All the counties and towns in the 

 State are an-anged, in a tabular form, in she mar- 

 gin of the map, with the population according to 

 the last census. Price, §2 7.5. 



Mr. Rice will furnish the above map, through 

 his agents, in all the counties of Westej-n N. Y., 

 at the pttblishers^ price. Also, in like manner, 

 the following Map^from MitchellV. Establishment, 

 Philadelphia, viz : Map of the World — Refer- 

 ence and Distance Map of the U. S. — The Na- 

 tional Map of the American Republic — Tanner's 

 Universal Atlas, (with 72 maps,) — New Map of 

 Texas, Oregon, and California— A New Map of 

 the Western States — and a variety of Pocket 

 Maps, &c, &c. The office of the genei-al agent 

 is at No. 10 Exchange street, Rochester. 



In the absence of the Editor, we adopt the 

 subjoined notice from the American Agriculturist ; 

 Qbartkki.y Journal of Acukmilturk and Science. — . 

 We tiie j;l-a>] to hail tbe appoariiucc of this able and high 

 toned journal ugaia, lor we fearod it might not be continued 

 another year. It abounds with valuable articles, both ag- 

 ricultural and scientific, and we earnestly (H>inmend it to 

 t!ie atlcniion of our readers as worthy of their support. It 

 is conducted by Dr. E. Emmons, State Geologist, and A^ 

 Osborn, Esq., Albany, N. Y. The pre.scnt number hag a 

 boiiutifnl steel-engraved portrait of (iov'rnor Wright, and 

 several other embellishments, it contains IG',) pages, and 

 is as well got up as the best luiropean journals of the kind,. 

 The ]iri<!e is only $3 a year. We shall thiuk it a disgrace 

 to ilio country if this work is not well sustmned. 



Scare-Cbows. — Suspend bright sheets of tin 

 on tall pole.s, at proper distances, through your 

 corn fields, and the crows will not disturb your- 

 corn, as the least wind causes a reflection that 

 will prove just as frightfid to them as an explo- 

 sion of gunpowder or the report of a gun. We 

 have trind this j)lan for several years and never 

 without success, — Avierkan Farmer^ 



