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AilEBICAN HOME GAEDEN. 



Fig. 23. 



Trarcl 

 one ■«• 



cov 

 ho 



ered by rakin;:; 

 is rheumatic. 



Hand seed-sower. 



such as to throw the small 

 lumps first uiDon the seed 

 rather than the finer soil. 

 This is undesirable, and 

 should be obviated by gear- 

 ing a small .sjiring-goremed 

 rake after the coverer, or 1jy 

 some other device. 



The sowing-tube, Fig. 29, 

 is a tin tube, about four feet 

 long and an inch in diame- 

 ter, with a small bend or lip 

 at the lower end, and at the 

 upper a fmmel mouth. The 

 sower, holding the tube in 

 his left hand, ch'aws its low- 

 er end after him in a jjrevi- 

 ously-prepared drill, di'op- 

 ping the seed as he goes, in 

 due proportion,- into the fun- 

 nel, whence it passes to the 

 prepared drill, being after- 

 It is suited to the mere amateur-, or 



Fig. 29. 



