IMPLEMENTS FOR FARM AND GARDEN". 1^3 



The Lime Spreader. This is another very useful 

 implement. There are several makes, varying slightly in 

 details. Distributing lime is very laborious and unpleas- 

 ant, and a machine that will relieve the farmer of this 

 labor should be in more general use. 



Horse Grain and Seed Drills and Fertilizing 

 Distributers are manufactured in different localities 

 throughout the country, on the same general principles, 

 but varying in many particulars, as the arrangement of 

 the tubes, rollers, feed cog gear, gauging levers, etc. 

 Competition necessarily compels manufacturers to con- 

 struct their machines with most desirable improvements. 

 The machines are intended to sow all kinds of grain, 

 grass seed and fertilizers, in any desired quantity or 

 depth, and, as a rule', give general satisfaction. 



Broadcast Fertilizer Distributers are another 

 contribution to the list of labor-saving implements. 

 They are arranged to sow commercial fertilizers, ashes, 

 plaster, to crush lumps and hard substances, and sow 

 damp as regularly as dry materials. They are said to be 

 simple, practical and durable. 



Hand Drills for Sowing Garden Seeds. There 

 are quite a number of different makers of these machines, 

 all claiming to be the best. The principal leading ma- 

 chines are the Keeler, New Model, Mathews, Planet Jr., 

 Big Comstock, Matthew Improved. With one of these 

 little machines the gardener can open the furrows, sow 

 the seed, cover and roll at one time. In addition to small 

 seeds these machines can be regulated to sow corn, beans 

 or peas on a limited scale. 



Corn Planters. On large farms, particularly in the 

 Western States, planting corn by hand is almost entirely 

 abandoned in favor of the more rapid and profitable mode 

 of planting in rows with horse power. These machines 

 are arranged to plant single or double rows. In some 

 machines the dropper receives its motion from the wheels 



