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THE COMPLETE GRAZIER. 



BOOK VIII. 



coulters can be taken out. Some English makers supply disc coulters, 

 but usually with cup feed. Mr. Coultas, of Graiitham, has a single-disc 

 drill with cup feed. Messrs. Hornsby & Sons, of Grantham, however, 

 make a disc drill named the " Hornsby Hoosier," with force feed, and 

 this, we believe, has movable coulter bars. 



Fig. 289. Tasker & Sons' Broad-Cast Grass Seed Distributor. 



Fig. 287 illustrates Mr. Coultas's drill fitted with V-shaped and 

 reversible coulters as improvements upon the ordinary form of cutting 

 coulters. When it is intended to horse-hoe corn grown with narrow 

 spaces between the rows, as is the case with wheat, barley, or oats, a fore- 



Fig. 29O. Coultas's Manure Distributor. 



steerage, which can be fitted to an ordinary drill, and is sent out, if 

 desired, with Mr. Coultas's implement, should be used, as the rows can 

 be kept straighter by this means than when no fore-steerage is used. 



The old custom of sowing corn broadcast is not practised so much as 

 before the introduction of coulter drills, and good " seedsmen " are less 



