No. 7. 



Jones* Patent Improved Seed-planter. 



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JONES' PATENT IMPROVED SEED-PLANTER OR DRILLING MACHINE. 



Mr. Jones has deposited a drill at the office of the Cabinet, and reports that he is now 

 prepared to manufacture and sell, upon reasonable terms, his newly invented and improved 

 machine for planting corn, peas, beans, broom-corn, sngar-beet, ruta-baga, onion, or any 

 other kind of seed which can be planted with a drill. With this machine one man will bo 

 enabled to perform the labour of five or six, dropping any desired number of seeds at a time 

 at any depth or distance required, with great accuracy. It is very compact and durable in 

 its construction, and if carefully used will last a lifetime. — Ed. 



Directions for itsinff. — Before the seeds are put into the hopper, they should be carefully 

 cleaned, or there will be danger of the dirt or pieces of pods filling the cells in the slide, 

 thereby preventing the seed tVom dropping regularly. Sugar-beet seed should be well rub- 

 bed in a wire sieve, which will separate much dirt, and make them more smooth and regu- 

 lar. Then, for planting any particular kind of seed, insert the wooden slide labelled accord- 

 ingly into the guides, and raise or lower the rest-plate by means of the thumb-screws, until 

 it touches the bottom of the slide, but leave it sufficiently loose to allow it to vibrate freely. 

 Next, determine the distance which you wish to drop the seed, by changing the band on to 

 the different pulleys, and the depth, by raising or lowering the roller, by means of the screw 

 at the rear of the machine. The roller also serves as a fulcrum for raising the propelling 

 wheel from the ground when the motion of the slide is wished to be stopped ; or as a pivot 

 on which to turn the machine at the end of the rows. The coverer behind the plough can 

 be raised or lowered at pleasure, so as to throw more or less earth on the seed. The keys 

 at the fore-part of the machine, are designed for moving the propelling-wheel ahead, and 

 thus to tighten the band if it should be too slack on changing from one pulley to another. 

 Care should be taken to keep all the parts which are subject to friction, well oiled. 



State and county rights will be sold on reasonable terms, or orders for machines will meet 

 with prompt attention, if addressed to the subscriber, at Camden, New Jersey. 



Joseph Jones, Patentee. 



Camden, N. J., Jan. 18, 1&12. 



