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SOUTHERN PLANTER. — ADVERTISING SHEET. 



SEYMOUR'S PREMIUM GUANO 

 AND WHEAT DRILLS. 



These Machines have been used in Virginia and 

 elsewhere the last season, and gave entire satisfac- 

 tion. I now offer them with renewed confidence, 

 feeling assured that they will entirely meet the wants 

 of the Farmers. They are recommended as a perfect 

 distributor of Wheat, Rye, Oats, Peas, Clover or Tim- 

 othy Seed, Guano, Plaster, &c. ; also, for their sim- 

 plicity and durability. 



Persons wishing these Machines, will send in their 

 orders at as early a day as possible. 



As an evidence of the Drill being the best way to 

 put in wheat, and thegreateconomy of usingthe Guano 

 attachment, I publish below a letter from N. B. Meade, 

 who has been using them seven years. For sale by 

 DRAYTON G. MEADE, 

 Agricultural Warehouse, 

 No. 12, Fairfax St., Alexandria Va., 



White Post, Clarke Co., Va., > 

 Lucky Hit, May 28th, 1857. \ 



In reply to your letter, asking my experience in 

 using the Guano and Wheat Drill, I can say, that 

 I purchased the first Wheat and Guano Drill ever 

 made in Virginia, in the Fall of 1850, and have con- 

 stantly used them since. My experience has been, 

 that any farmer cultivating 100 acres in Wheat, would 

 be well paid if he had to give $100 for a new Dri 

 every Fall, and pay 75 dollars per ton for Guano. I 

 have a field that, up to the introduction of the Wheat 

 and Guano Drill, never, under the best management, 

 was known to pay back the seed and cost of cultiva- 

 tion. 1 seeded it with the Drill in 1850, and have 

 done the same every year since — seven years — 

 using about 60 lbs. of Guano, and 40 of Plaster; it 

 has averaged me twenty bushels to the acre. And 

 now when our finest farms are naked, the Wheat hav- 

 ing been entirely killed by the winter, this old field 

 looks better than ever, and will yield 25 bush. I had 

 rather have 6U lbs. of Guano, with the Drill and 40 

 of Plaster, than 200 lbs. broadcast. We have no 

 Wheat at all around the White Post except the drilled 

 Wheat, the broadcast being entirely killed out. 



Yours, truly, IM ATH. B. MEADE. 



July 1857— 3t 



Manney's Mowers and Reapers. 

 WITH WOOD'S IMPROVEMENT. 



I have just received a large lot of the above valua- 

 ble Machines. Those who used them last season 

 pronounced them to be the best they have seen, and 

 many have thrown all other kinds aside, and purchase 

 these for the present harvest. Those who may wish 

 them, will send in their orders very soon, or they may 

 be disappointed in getting them. I give below the 

 opinion ot the Hon. J. Morton, of Culpeper, who is 

 known to be one of our most practical and successful 

 farmers. 



DRAYTON G. MEADE, 

 Agricultural Warehouse, 

 No. 12, Fairfax sUeet, Alexandria, Va. 



First Premium Trotting Stallion 

 KOSSUTH. 



This justly renowned Trot- 

 ting Stallion who has re- 

 ceived at the Virginia State 

 Agricultural Society the 

 first premium two years in 

 succession (1854 and 1855,) 

 and a certificate of superior- 

 ity over all trotting stallions 

 on exhibition at the late Fair of 1856, (he being dis- 

 qualified according to the rules of the Society from 

 receiving any further premium having taken it on two 

 former occasions) and who is now pronounced by 

 judges to be one of the purest bred and fastest trotting 

 stallionsin America, will commence a fall season on the 

 first of August at the stable of the subscriber on the 

 Mechanicsville Turnpike one mile from the City of 

 Richmond. The season will expire the 1st of October. 



TERMS. 



$30 the season, if prepaid; or $35 payable at the 

 close of the season. Insurance $50. Groom fee, $1. 



Kossuth was foaled in Columbia County, State of 

 New York on the 9th of July 1847, is a beautiful rich 

 dark brown, five feet three inches high, of great mus- 

 cular power and symmetry of form, docile disposition, 

 and can trot his mile inside of two minutes and forty 

 seconds to a wagon. His colts are remarkably fine 

 and promising, having good action, and every indica- 

 tion of speed. Three of them received first class pre- 

 miums at the State Fair of 1855, and five at the 

 Fair of 1856, and from $300 to $500 a piece has been 

 refused for some, of them at one year old. 



PEDIGREE. 



KOSSUTH 



was sired by that world renowned trotting horse New 

 York Black Hawk, out of the well known trotting mare 

 Lady of the Lake. Black Hawk while living was the 

 champion of the turf, and all of his get are trotting hor- 

 ses and command high prices. For further particu- 

 lars refer to my bills, or the turf register, where it will 

 be seen that Kossuth is not a chance horse, or one of 

 doubtful pedigree, hut that he belongs to a trotting 

 family, and that one beyond dispute the very best in 

 America and traces his blood for more than half a cen- 

 tury through a line of choice ancestors — all celebrated 

 for speed and great endurance — and goes back to some 

 of the purest Arabian and Engiish Horses. Persons 

 wishing to breed from Kossuth would do well to make 

 early application as he will be limited having a fall 

 engagement. 



Mares sent from a distance will be well taken care 

 of at my stable, at forty cents per day. 



if. J. SMITH, 

 near^Fairfield Race Course. 



Julv 1857— 2t 



D. G. Meade, Esq., 



Dear Sir :— I purchased three of Manney's Reap- 

 ers from you, and you wish my opinion in regard to 

 them. They performed admirably, and for simplicity, 

 lightness of draft and execution, prefer them to any I 

 have seen operate. I like them as much, if not more, 

 for the cutting of Hay. 



Yours, very truly, Jeremiah Morton. 



Julv 1857- It 



MACFARLANE & FERGUS30N, 



BOOK & JOB PRINTERS, 



RICHMOND, VA. 



GEO. WATT. | [ P. H. STARKE. 



Cuff Brace Plows. 



rpHIS PLOW has been steadily increasing in 

 I favor with the Farmers and Planters of this State 

 and several of the Southern States till it may now 

 be considered the best and most popular plow in use. 

 It has been put to the several trials by most of our 

 large river Farmers, and has taken premiums at three 

 of our State Fairs, and at the last took the FIRST 

 PREMIUM over all the most popular plows in use. 

 It has"also taken the only two premiums ever given 

 by the Virginia Mechanics Institute. Manufactur- 

 ed of every size from largest 4 horse to smallest 1 

 horse by the undersigned at their factory on Frank- 

 lin Street, Richmond, Va., where we may be had 

 nearlv every article used for tilling the earth. ALL 

 MADE IN OUR OWN SHOPS, of best materials. 



GEO. WATT & CO. 



Aug '56-1 v 



