SOUTHEEN PLANTETt— ADVERTISING SHEET. 







Pfm OF IMPROVED BREED FOR SALE. — 

 I have for sale, to be delivered at weaning time, 

 a good ma«y pigs of improved breed. I have pro- 

 duced it myself from crosses of the Hurry (or Snf- 

 fo»lk) genuine Berkshire, (pt: John R. Woods' sto<ik) 

 Irish Grazier, Chester County, No Bone and Pac-h- 

 eSS. I think them superior hogs of medium size, 

 and for fourteen years they have not had a bad 

 cross among them . I prefer that purchasers sbould 

 view my brood sows and my boar on my farm, three 

 mSes below Richmond. I will not sell them in 

 pairs!, because the in-and-in breeding would depre- 

 ciate the stock at once and cause dissatisfaction, 

 bot 1 will sell in one lot several of the same sex. 

 Price $5 per head for one, and an agreed price for 

 a larger number. They will be delivered on the 

 Basan,, or at any of the Rail Road Depots free of 

 obaajge. 



FRAXK: G. "RUFFES. 



&mem am, eu-stcrficid, jam,. 4, 1855. 



SEYMOUR'S IMPROVED PATENT 

 BROADCAST SOWING MACHINE. 



THIS Machine was patented in 18*5, an J! ten 

 years have proved it to be unequalled in the Uni- 

 ted States, for the purposes lor which it is designed. 



It has bat 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 to the smallest seeds (Clover and Timothy 

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

 of a dasty nature, which are so nearly reduced to a 

 powder that the largest particles will pass through 

 an aperture which will let through peas or corn, or 

 Which, having once been ground or made tine, and 

 become lumpy by exposure, as piaster frequently 

 does, can readily be reduced to powder by the 

 action of the "plaster rod," which is a kind of coarse 

 fjheet iron saw, which is used in the machine, lor 

 distributing all such manure*. 



■It is capable of dusting every inch of ground on 

 aa acre of land with less 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 

 oo-hy teeth enongh on to sow the breadth desired. 

 Jt'kas received the highest reecommendations from 

 many hundreds of the best farmers of our country 

 and received twelve premiums from Agricultural 

 Societies, besides the Highest Prize and Diploma 

 »i the trial of Agricultural Implements, held at 

 G e va , J u 1 y ,M 852. 



[The following is from iho "Albany Cultivator, of Jun«, 

 I84«, by the Editor, L. Tucker.] 



"This Cut represents Seyrooujr'a Sowing Ma- 

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

 sively used in Western New York, and is ranch 

 approved. We saw many acres of various kinds 

 of grain on the farm of JohjJ Jtelafieid, Esq., 



near Geneva, last season, which had been sown 

 with thss Machine, and we never saw grain -stand 

 more evenly on the ground. Mr. Delafieid assured 

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

 guano, &e., 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. G-edde-°, before- 

 the Onondaga Co. Ag. Soc., 1854.] 

 The sowing of plaster by hand is a very unpleasant 

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

 to useone of Seymours machines. With these ma- 

 chines the plaster is evenly distributed over the 

 whole ground, and for this reason a smaller quantity 

 of plaster is required to touch every part of the 

 surfaee. 



[Pi-oci Ed. Southern Planter, Va., April, 18C>5 ] 

 Seymour's Patent Broadcasting Machike. — 

 We again call the attention of our subscribers to 

 this Machine. Since the last number of the Plan- 

 ter was published we have sowed with it one hun- 

 dred acres in oats, and they are now up. We never 

 had a crop so well seeded or that promised belter. 



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

 state our own experience. One horse, works the 

 machine with perfect ease, it being no heavier than 

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

 engaged that he could not get to the work sooner 

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

 same time in the evening. We had four three-fcorse 

 harrows in the field and a three-horse plough to 

 sweep the water furrows. The land required only 

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

 fall and winter ploughing being remarkably fine. 

 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 breadth 

 often 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 sup-ply with 

 him. The seeding, too, is entirely independent oi 

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

 high winds, which prevailed most of the time, as 

 during a calm, because the seed are delivered so 

 close to the ground. We not only recommend the 

 machine, therefore, to every farmer, but w-e urge 

 them to buy it, not on Mr. Seymour's account, who 

 is nothing "to us, but on their own. 



Alaemarlb, Va., March 7, 1856. 

 I purchased one of Mr. Seymour's Plaster Sow- 

 ers in ISM, and it was used by'rnyselfand a neigh bor 

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

 ed another in the Fall of \ 854, 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. 

 1 am certain that every square inch of an acie 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. 



FnBDFniCKsrA}, Va., Oct. 19, 1835, 

 To Messrs] Wellford, Eastuam & Co. 



GcnUcmeri : 



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 s®wed with 



