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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



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WOODWARD'S IMPROVED SEED PLANTER AND MANURE DROPPER. 



Anxious to lay everything before the reader 

 that will tend to facilitate his labors and enable 

 him to realize a large return for them, we give 

 above the engraving and description of another 

 labor-saving implement. We have examined, but 

 not used it ; it seems to be constructed on correct 

 principles, and has been used for several years in 

 the western part of the State. The inventor's de- 

 scription is as follows : — 



"These labor-saving and profit-yielding ma- 

 chines ore presented to the public, as being of 

 much greater utility than any other implements 

 ever presented for saving of labor and increase of 

 crops. Corn, broom-corn, carrots, and other 

 small seeds, may l)e planted and cultivated with 

 less than one-half of the expense of the hoe, and 

 in the m(jst perfect manner, removing coarse sub- 

 stances nine inches each way from the line of the 

 row, smoothing and pulverizing a strip eighteen 

 inches wide, in the centre of which the plow on 

 tlie under side cuts a channel at any required 

 depth, making the earth still finer, into which 

 the seed is dropped while the ground is moist, 

 causing it to swell immediately, and I)eing cov- 

 ered of equal depth, it comes up from one to tliree 

 days sooner than when covered Avitli the hoe, 

 tlieroliy getting a start of the weeds. It plants in 

 the hill or drill, depositing any suitable number 

 of grains at almost any given distance. Ten 

 acres are an ordinary day's work for a man and 

 horse. Wlien properly nKide and used, it gives 

 universal satisfaction. More than two hundred 

 have been sold in Ilampsliire and Franklin coun- 

 ties. Plaster, lime, ashes, bone-dust, or any other 

 dry fine manure, the machine can drop upon the 

 seed before it is covered, from one to forty bush- 

 els to the acre. It was awarded the first premium 



(a medal and diploma) at the great trial of agri- 

 cultural implements at Geneva, N. Y., in 1852; 

 it has also taken the first premium at all the 

 State and County Fairs where I have presented it, 

 and in many other places. Also, at the World's 

 Fair in New York." 



COMMON THINGS. 



In raising vines from cuttings, those which are 

 furnished with two eyes each will be sufficiently 

 long for the purpose ; the lower part should be 

 planted singly in small pots filled with good mold, 

 leaving the upper ej'e ratlier below the surface 

 than above it. The j^ots should be placed either 

 in a stove or in a hot-bed, allowing the plants 

 room as they advance in height, and shifting 

 them into larger sized pots when tliey have filled 

 the first with roots. As the season advances they 

 may be removed into the stove and other hot- 

 house, and from thence to the greenhouse, keep- 

 ing them neatly tied up to sticks, and allowing 

 them plenty of air, to prevent them from being 

 drawn up weakly. Vines raised from single eyes 

 require the same management as those from cut- 

 tings, beginning only with a smaller sized pot, 

 and removing them into others as they gain 

 sti-ength and it requires room. Those raised 

 from cuttings, as well as these, should be kept 

 under glass throughout the summer, and a ju- 

 dicious application of liquid manure during the 

 growing montiis, would considerably promote the 

 growth of both. 



Cauliflowers. — The seed should be sown now 

 for the autumnal crop upon a gentle liot-bed. 

 This sowing will come in during August, and for 

 a later crop the seed sliould be sown the begin- 

 ning or middle of May ; this will furnish heads 



