1855. 



NEW ENGLAND FAKMER. 



209 



SEED SOWER No. 3. 



cylinder and brush -within the hopper go by 

 gearing, and thus ai-e always sure to operate. 



Seed Sower No. 3, combines several important 

 improvements upon the English Drill, particu- 

 larly in those additions which fit it for sowing 

 large seeds. The brush and cylinder of No. 3, 

 which distributes tlie seed, go by graduated rows 

 of iron cogs or gearings, which operate simply 

 and uniformly, are durable, not likely to get out 

 of order, and by which the speed of the dropping 

 may be increased or lessened, large or small seeds 

 sown, in all their varieties, at any desirable dis- 

 tances, in hills or drills, and the several necessary 

 changes for the purpose are made with ease and 

 expeilition. The brush is used for small seeds, as 

 turnips, carrots, &c., and the cylinder for corn, 

 peas, beans, &c. Sis tins, with different sized 

 holes through them, accompany each machine, to 

 be used in connection with the bru^h, as circum- 

 stances may require. 



some with steep rumps, big 

 heads, and dull eyes, or slug- 

 gish gaits, that were called 

 Morgans, and probably en- 

 ough were gotten by them, 

 but the characteristics of the 

 dam were too potent to be 

 subdued by a single cross. In 

 conclusion we are compelled 

 to say, that the tncc type of 

 the Morgan horse is as desira- 

 ble an animal for the road, 

 wlicther our taste, or conve- 

 nience, or pockets are con- 

 cerned, as we have ever seen 

 in harness ; and success, say 

 we, to the Vermont enterprise 

 of rearing and maintaining a 

 new and highly creditable family of hoi-ses." 



OXTR GARDEN. 



MOEGAN HOESES. 



One of the editors of the American Agricul- 

 turist, who attended the Vermont State Fair, 

 makes the following candid and judicious remarks 

 in regard to this stock of horses : 



"One of our correspondents has recently char- 

 acterized the Morgan horse a humbug. 'We wish 

 there were more such agricultural humbugs. lie 

 has equally failed in characterising this line fam- 

 ily of horse flesh. He has evidently drawn his 

 ideas from the throng of miscellaneous brutes that 

 have been picked up by jockeys of every hue, and 

 palmed oft among the unsophisticated, wherever 

 such customers could be found. Of course there 

 is no such thing as a pure Morgan horse, as their 

 origin dates from a single animal, and less than < 

 sixty years ago. But they have had aliout tlic! 

 same period to form a peculiar race as the Ayr- i 

 shire cattle, and their success is fully equal. 

 Iliey are not homogeneous in form, appearance, 

 nor cliaracter ; but they are enough so to l)c en- 

 titled to the possession of a dLstinctive family 

 name. There are wide departures from tlie gen- 

 eral resemblance, in many of the progeny that are 

 bred from uncouth dams. We have seen some 

 over sixteen liands Iiigli and some scarcely twelve ; 



There is Dractical wisdom in the following arti- 

 cle. Read and follow lead. 



It is in the roar of our dwelling on State street, 

 five rods wide by ten rods long, skirted on both 

 sides, and each end with apple, pear, plum, 

 quince, and cherry trees, of numerous varieties, 

 interspersed with currant, gooseberry, black and 

 white raspberry bushes and flowers of numerous 

 tints and hues. It Avas well manured with a 

 compost of muck and the droppings and drip- 

 pings of the kitchen and barn, and plowed 

 twelve inches deep in the fall of 1853. In the 

 following spring, it wag again plpvred eight 

 inches deep, and harrowed until not a lump was 

 to be seen upon the snrflice. As soon in May as 

 the earth was sufficiently warm, the seed was 

 "cast in" with a patent seed sower, drilling, drop- 

 ping and covering the seed as fast as one could 

 run a wheelbarrow over a smooth surface. The 

 work of planting, cultivating and harvesting, was 

 principally done with a light hoe in our own 

 hands, l)elbre breakfast and after tea. The result 

 is as follows : 



3 bushels Top Onions, 75 cents per bushel $2 25 



10 " Kuta 15;igas, 25..." " 2 50 



44 " Sugar Beets, 25..." " 1100 



21 " MancelWort.20..." " 4 20 



63i « Carrots, 42..." " 39 21 



6 " Blood fieets, 34..." " 2 04 



187 heads Cabbage, 4. 7 4S 



22 Acorti Winter l^quashes, 20 4 40 



74 Black Pumpkins, 4 2 9G 



2 I'ushtls cars sweet Corn for seed, $1 00 2 DO 



1 Inishel Pop Corn, 50 50 



75 Melons, 10 7 50 



3 bushels Cucumbers, $1 00 ?> 00 



2 " Currants, 2 00 4 00 



i " Gooseberries, 2 00 100 



$94 04 



With beans, pie-plant, early potatoes, peas, 

 asparagus, &c., for the supply of one's family, to 

 say nothing of the stalks, ca!>))ago leaves, turnip 

 and carrot tops, to make the cows laugh, give 

 milk and grow fat. He th.at will not cultivate a 

 good kitchen garden, "neither shall ho eat" good 

 sauce nor fine fruit. — Watchman. 



"Out of Work." — We ask all our readers, 

 but especially all young men, to read, carefully, 

 the article in another column from "A City jMe- 

 chanic." 



