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somewhat like hand corn-planters, may be used with 

 profit. They cost $i .00 to $i .50, and it is claimed that 

 an active man can plant at least one acre per day. 



Every large grower of potatoes requires a horse- 

 planter. From six to eight acres will warrant the 

 use of such a machine, and it may be made to pay for 

 itself in a short time by hiring it out preferably with 



FIG. 27 ASPINWALL POTATO I'LANTER (SIDE VIEW 



a man to work it. Some planters require one man, 

 others two men, to work them; the latter generally 

 do the best work, although good work is done by the 

 former. Two systems of mechanism are employed the 

 picker and the platform. In some planters the tubers 

 are fed from the hopper onto pickers, or spikes, which 

 project from a revolving vertical disk. The disk 

 carries them round to the top of a delivery pipe, where 

 they are knocked off, or fall off, going down the pipe 



