SOUTHERN PLANTER — ADVERTISING SHEET. 



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Iil ME—LI ME — LIME. 



TO FARMERS, BRICKLAYERS, AND 

 OTHERS. 



Having made arrangements for a regular supply 

 of shells, I am prepared to furnish any quantity of 

 veil burnt Shell Lime, as low or lower than can be 

 procured elsewhere. It will be delivered to fanners 

 at any of the railroad Depots, and to customers m 

 the City wherever they may desire. 



Application to be made at my Lime Kilns, oppo- 

 site Tredegar Iron Works, at * r John G. Werth's 

 office, corner lOih Street and Basin B?nk, or at 

 Messrs. Smith and Harwood's Hardware Store, 

 Main Street, Richmond. 



Jan ly WILLIAM SMITH. 



M'CONNELL Si BURTON, 



DENTISTS, 

 Main Street, between 9th and 10th Streets, Richmond, Va 



JOHN M'CONNELL. W. LEIGH BURTON. 



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SEYMOUR'S IMPROVED PATENT 

 BROADCAST SOWING MACHINE. 



THIS Machine was patented in 1845, and ten 

 years have proved it to be unequalled in the XJni- 

 led States, for the purposes tor which it is designed. 



It has but very little machinery, hence, when 

 well made, it is very durable. It is capable of per- 

 forming as follows: It sows correctly (and any de- 

 sired quantity per acre,) all the various kinds of 

 grain and seed commonly sown by farmers, from 

 peas 10 the smallest seeds (Clover and Timothy 

 mixed,) if desired, and all the fertilizers or manures 



near Geneva, last seasor., which had been sown, 

 with th>s Machine, and we never saw grain stand 

 more evenly on the ground. Mr. Delafield assured 

 us he could sow anything— lime, plaster, puudreite, 

 guano, &c, or any seed, from grass seed to peas, or 

 Indian corn, with' perfect exactness, graduating the 

 quantity per acre to a pint." 



[Extract from an Address of the Hon. Geo. Gedde«, before 

 the Onondaga (Jo. Ag. Soc, :354.] 

 The sowing of plaster by hand is a very unpleasant 

 piece of hard work, and it is b> far the best economy 

 to us?.one jf Seymour's machines. With these ma- 

 chines the plaster is evenly distributed over ihe 

 whole ground, and for this reason a smaller quantity 

 of piaster Is required lo touch every part of the 

 surface. 



[From Ed. Southern Planter, Va., April, 1855 ] 

 Seymour's Patent Br jadcasting Machine. — 

 We again call the attention of our subscribers to 

 this Machine. Since the last number of the Plaa- 

 ter was published we have sowed with it one hun- 

 dred acres in oats, and ihey are now up. We i.eves 

 had a crop so well seeded or that promised better. 



As to the quantity of work it w ill do, we can only 

 state our own experience. One horse works the 

 machine with perfect ease, it being no heavier thaa 

 a single gig. The driver, in our case, was so 

 engaged that he could not get to the work soone? 

 than an hour by sun, and had to leave it about the 

 same time in the evening. We had lour three-horse 

 ! harrows in the fitld*and a three-horse plough to 

 sweep the water furrows. The land required only 

 lone harrowing to get it in order, the tilth upon the 

 jfall and winter ploughing being remarkably fine, 

 j Dividing the work of preceding, and following the 

 Machine, as occasion required, so as to keep all the 

 work well up together, we found that it was per- 

 fectly able to keep ahead of them. It sows a breadtit 

 of ten feet, as fast as a horse can walk, and carry- 

 ing two bushels at a time, does not require as many 

 stoppages as are necessary with a man who seeds 

 by hand and can carry a much less supply with 

 him. The seeding, too, is entirely independent of 

 the wind, and was done with us as well during very 

 I high winds, which prevailed most of the time, as 



of a dusty nature, which are so nearly reduced to a during a calm, because the seed are delivered so 

 powder that the largest particles will pass through j close to the ground. We not only recommeud the 

 an aperture which will let through peas or corn, or machine, therefore, to every farmer, but we urge 

 which, having once been ground or made fine, and j them to buy it, not on Mr. Seymour's account, who 

 become lumpy by exposure, as plaster frequently is nothing to us, but on their own. 

 does, can readily be reduced to powder by the Albemarle, Va., March 7, 1855. 



action of the "plaster rod," which is a kind of coarse | T pur chased one of Mr. Seymour's Plaster Sow- 



sheet iron saw, which is used in the machine, for 

 distributing all such manures. 



It is capable of dusting every inch of ground on 

 an acre of land with iess than half a bushel of 

 plaster, and thirty or forty bushels of lime may be 

 thus evenly applied to the same amount of land. 

 It sows ten feet wide, and any narrower breadth 

 may be sown at pleasure, merely with a "rod" with 

 only teeth enough on to sow the breadth desired. 

 It has received the highest receommendations from 

 many hundreds of the best farmers of our country 

 and received twelve premiums from Agricultural 

 Societies, besides the Highest Prize and Diploma 

 at the trial of Agricultural Implements, held at 

 Geneva, July, 1852. 



[Tire following is from the " Albany Cultivator, of June, 

 1848, by the Editor, L. Tucker.] 



"This Cut represents Seymours Sowing Ma- 

 chine, advertised in our last. It has been exten- 

 sively used in Western New York, and is much 

 approved. We saw many acres of various Icinds 

 of grain on the farm of John Delafield, Esq., 



er.- in 1854, and it was used by myself and a neighbor 

 in sowing thirty or forty tons of Plaster. I purchas- 

 ed another in ihe Fall of 1854, and I am now using 

 both. One hand with an ordinary horse can sow, 

 without difficulty, twenty to twenty-five acres a 

 day. The distribution is as perfect as possible. 

 I am certain that every square inch of an acte was 

 dusted by one third of a bushel. My neighbor Mr. 

 F. K Nelson thinks he effected it with one peck. 

 I cannot speak too highly of this machine as a 

 plaster sower. It sows timothy seed and clover. 

 I have not tried it with wheat, but feel assured it 

 will answer well. 



T. J. RANDOLPH, 



Fredericksb'g, Va., Oct. 19, 1855. 

 To Messrs". Wellfort), Eastham & Co. 



Gentlemen, : 



At your request I with pleasure give yon my 

 opinion of Seymour's Patent Sowing Machine, 

 which I have used with perfect satisfaction for two 

 years past, in*sowing wheat. I last year sewed with 



