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during several years past we can testify to its value. Being wholly 

 of iron and steel, except the handles, it is light and durable, and the 

 many combinations for which it may be arranged, all of which are 

 necessary for their special uses on the farm, make it a very economical 

 implement. For corn and root crops it has no superior. It will work 



As a Coverer, with Roller. ^Wiring Rake. ' 



PLANET JUNIOR HOBSE HOE, CULTIVATOR, PLOW AND COVERER COMBINED. 



the soil level, or throw it from the rows of plants, or turn it to them, or 

 even hill up the rows, when desired. It opens furrows for planting, 

 covers the seed, and after the plants are up will do all the requisite 

 work of cultivation. It can be adapted to rows of various widths. 



CORN PLANTERS. 



The old method of marking out corn ground both ways and drop- 

 ping the seed by hand is not profitable. Machines for planting corn 

 are now made which will plant and finish eight to twenty acres of 

 corn in a day. Some of these in use ia the West are made to drop 

 the corn in check rows, which is the preferable method there; but 

 where the fields are smaller and where weeds are not so abundant, 

 corn can be grown in drills more profitably than in hills marked out 

 both ways. For planting corn in drills, one of the most popular 

 machines is 



THE KEYSTONE CORN PLANTER. 



This machine is simply constructed, so that any workman or farmer 

 can use it without difficulty, and it will drop either in single kernels 



