PLANTING 



the row is marked out and the machine is 

 set to plant in hills certain distances apart. 

 The machines should be tested in order to 

 know just how many kernels are dropped 

 at these intervals before the work is carried 

 on in the garden. One of these machines 

 will drop in hills, 4, 6, 8, 12, 18, or 24 

 inches apart, and a marker can be arranged 

 so that rows can be marked from 4 inches 

 to 3 feet apart. These machines save a 

 great deal in the man's time, and place 

 the corn at practically a uniform depth. 



If the plow is properly arranged, these 

 machines not only open the furrow for the 

 seed, but drop the seed, cover the seed, 

 press the soil over the seed, all in one 

 operation, as fast as a man walks. 



NUMBER OF SEEDS TO PLANT 



I have mentioned, in planting, that the 

 seed varies from 6 to 14 in each hill. A 

 reason for the larger number of seed is 

 that the earlier one plants, the more risk 

 in planting at this date, and therefore, the 

 more chance for decay rather than growth; 



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