Garden Implements. — 51 



is a good seed drill. There are a number of good and service- 

 able ones now in the trade. The Planet Jr. garden drill shown 

 in illustration on next page, affords a safe, easy, and perfect 

 method of sowing smaller seeds over large or small areas. 

 The intelligent farmer who has learned to appreciate the 

 mangels, and carrots and other root crops as winter food for 

 cattle, sheep, hogs and horses, and makes it a practice to plant 

 largely of them every year, is not unacquainted with the merits 

 of the garden drills, and often would not consider his assort- 

 ment of implements complete without a good garden seed 

 sower. 



I am not greatly in favor of combined tools, but if the home 

 grower is bound to have a seed sower and wheel-hoe combined, 

 the Planet Jr. combined drill, wheel-hoe and cultivator will give 

 him what he wants. 

 Amongseparate gar- 

 den seed sowing de- 

 vices besides the one 

 already named, we 

 have Matthews' mar- 

 ket gardener drill, 

 the Model drill and 

 others, 



A later addition 

 to our seed sowing 

 devices is the Planet 

 Jr. hill dropping seed p^^^^^ ^.^^ j^ 5^^^ ^^.^^ 



drill. It places the 



hills as desired, 4, 6, 8 or 12 inches apart, but can be changed to 

 a drill sower, and the reverse, in a moment. It has a complete 

 marker, does not sow when going backward and can be thrown 

 entirely out of gear in a moment. 



There is also an extra attachment for sowing onion seed for 

 sets in a band four inches wide. 



Still another tool is the Planet Jr. hill dropping and fertilizer 

 drill, which, as a drill, does exactly the same work as the hill 

 dropping drill, and in addition gives us a chance to sow fertilizers 

 in the drill, either under or above the seed. The fertilizer hopper 

 holds one peck. This tool may be used to sow either seed or 

 fertilizer alone, and will come handy in many instances. 



There are also larger fertilizer drills on the market. The 

 possession of one of them will be a great convenience to every 

 gardener or farmer who makes a practice of applying concen- 

 trated fertilizers in the drills for potatoes, corn, peas, beets, etc. 

 Some of these implements are also serviceable for drilling peas, 

 corn, etc. 



