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THE GENESEE FARMER. 



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SEYMOUR'S DRILL AND BROADCAST SOWING MACHINE. 



Messrs. Editors : — There is so much of the Bar- 

 on Munchausen style in the advertisements of Drills 

 in the Genesee Farmer, that your readers may think 

 the effort is to out brag each other. I have no inter- 

 est in bragging - of Seymours Machine. I have 

 owned and used his broad cast sowing machine for 

 the last eight years, and have noticed the improve- 

 ments he has made in it. I have sown with it differ- 

 ent kinds of grain, plaster, plaster and salt mixed, 

 ashes, clover and herds grass seeds, flax, fee. At 

 first it was an imperfect machine, but with the late 

 improvements it works satisfactory in all respects. 



The drill he has but recently attached, and I have 

 had but little opportunity of seeing it work. I have 

 been in several fields of wheat drilled in last fall, and 

 have carefully examined the work. There is no in- 

 termissions or failure in the drills, but the wheat has 

 come up uniformly in all of them. I have examined 

 fields put in with Palmer's drill last fall, and the 

 year before, and have found some of the drills miss- 

 ing for rods together, and then a great deal too much 

 wheat would be dropped. From the manner in which 

 the wheat is agitated in Seymour's drill, I think a 

 failure of dropping seed will rarely occur. I have 

 no doubt but it will sow wheat which has been soaked 

 and rolled in lime, or plaster, and barley and oats, al- 

 though I have not seen it done. I have drilled in 

 corn and beans, and my neighbors have drilled in 

 beets and carrots, satisfactorily. 



From what I have known of this drill and sowing 

 machine, I have no hesitation in saying that I think 

 it a valuable machine ; and it can be altered from a 

 drill to a broad cast machine in a few minutes. — 

 However popular drilling may become, some of the 

 smaller grains, clover and grass seeds, plaster, ashes 

 and lime, will always be sown broadcast 



It is not always the horse upon which bets are the- 

 most freely offered, that wins in the race — so, don't 

 start until Seymour's Machine is in the field. All, r 

 a fair race, let impartial judges decide. At all events 

 let the farmer be benefitted, whoever wins or loses. — 

 Myron Adams. East Bloomjield, J\\ F., 1849, 



Remarks.— The testimony of our valued corres- 

 pondent is reliable, inasmuch as it is founded upon 

 experience, as well as observation. We were favored 



with an opportunity of examining Mr. Seymour's 

 drill, a few days since. It is well built, and pos- 

 sesses some improvements and advantages over many 

 of the other drills now in use. Whether it will 

 prove "A, No. 1," among the drilling machines re- 

 cently offered to the public, is a question which 

 remains to be determined. At any rate we think 

 it worthy of a trial by grain growing farmers — for, 

 whether best or second best, it will be found a valua- 

 ble labor-saving (and seed-saving) article. 



We will add, for the information of those who may 

 desire to obtain this Drill, that it may be had on ap- 

 plication to Seymour k, Morgan, of" Brockport; C. 

 Seymour, of York ; Anthony, Rountree k. Everson, 

 of Union Springs ; or P. Seymour, of East Bloom- 

 field, N. Y. See advertisement in May number. 



CATTLE IN CHAUTAUQUE COUNTY. 



Mr. T. B. Campbell, of Westfield, N. Y., com- 

 municates the following to the Cultivator : — 



The County of Chautauque, is perhaps, one of the 

 best agricultural sections of the State of New York, 

 and particularly adapted to the breeding and rearing 

 of stock. Hence it has been an object among our 

 farmers for a number of years past, to improve the 

 breed of cattle, sheep and horses. The short horns, 

 and that breed crossed with the common stock, have, 

 until recently, been considered the most valuable, and 

 yielding the greater profit. A few years since the Her- 

 ford breed was introduced here, at first they did not 

 meet with general favor; it was feared that they were 

 too small, and that they would reduce the weight of our 

 cattle. Experience has proved such conclusions en- 

 tirely wrong. The cross with the Hereford and our 

 cows, they being generally of the short horned descent, 

 proves to be one of the greatest improvements in the 

 bt(fed of the Chautauque cattle that has yet been in- 

 troduced, and will add much to the interest of the 

 breeder and farmer. I cannot speak with as much 

 cretainty from my own experience, in regard to their 

 quality for the diary, but those who have proved 

 them, recommend the richness of their milk in the 

 highest manner, and rank them in the first class 

 for the dairy. 



