PI^ANTING 



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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 adlive 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 PLANTER (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 

 projedl 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 



