CORN PLANTERS. 155 



ten feet wide, and the operator rides in a seat. Seymour's 

 Plaster Sower sows these fertilizers, whether wet or dry. 

 These machines are sold at about 870. 



CORX PLANTERS. 



Among the best one-horse corn planters, which make 

 one drill at a time, are Emery's, Harrington's, and Bil- 

 lings'. The last-named is represented in the annexed cut. 

 It drops in hills, eleven inches apart in the row, or, if de- 

 sired, twenty-two 

 inches, the perfora- 

 tions in the slides, 

 regulating the 



number of grains. 

 It is so constructed 

 as to drop any 

 desired amount of 



BUlings' Com Planter. plaster, guanO, Or 



other concentrated manure, without coming in contact with 

 the seed. This, and other one-horse drills, arc well adapted 

 to planting fields of considerable size, for cultivating in 

 rows but one way. On a larger scale, two-horse drills 

 are employed. Wheat drills are often used for this pur- 

 pose, employing only two of the tubes. Another class of 

 corn planters, for planting in hills, the rows running both 

 ways, consist of hollow tubes, which contain the seed, 

 and which, by striking or pressing on the soil, drop and 

 cover a hill at one stroke. 



true's potato planter. 



For field culture, this implement has proved an import- 

 ant saver of hand labor. It is drawn by one horse, and 

 cuts, drops, and covers the potatoes at one operation. It 

 is usually employed on ground wliich has been plowed 



