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SOUTHERN PLANTER.— ADVERTISING SHEET. 



PIGS OF IMPROVED BREED FOR SALE. 

 I have for sale, to be delivered at weaning 

 time, a good many pigs of improved breed. I 

 have produced it myself from crosses of the 

 Surry (or Suffolk) genuine Berkshire, (Dr. John 

 R. Woods' stock) Irish Grazier, Chester County, 

 no Bone and Duchess. 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 should view my brood sows and 

 my boar on my farm, three miles below Rich- 

 mond. I will not sell them in pairs, because 

 the in-and-in breeding would depreciate the 

 stock at once and cause dissatisfacton, but I will 

 sell in one lot several of the same sex. 



lig^Price $5 per head for one, and an agreed 

 price for a larger number. They will be.deliv- 

 ered on the Basin or any of the Railroad Depots 

 free of charge. . 



FRANK G. RUFFIN. 

 Summer Hill, Chesterfield, May, 1856. 



SEYMOUR'S 



IMPROVED PATENT 



Broadcast Sewing Machine. 



This Machine was patented in 1845, and ten years 

 have proved it to be unequalled in the United States 

 for the purposes for which it is designed. 



It has but very little machinery, hence, when well 

 made, it is very durable. It is capable of performing as 

 follows: it sows correctly (and any desired quantity 

 per acre,) all the various kinds of grain and seed com- 

 monly sown by farmers, from peas to the smallest seeds 

 (Clover and Timothy mixed,) if desired, and all the fer- 

 tilizers or manures of a dusty 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 fine, and become lumpy by exposure, as plaster 

 frequently does, can readily be reduced to powder by 

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

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

 tributing all such manures. 



It is capable of dusting every inch of ground on an 

 acre of land with less than half a bushel of plaster, and 

 thirty or forty bushels of lime may be thus evenly ap- 

 plied to the same amount of land. It sows ten feet 

 wide, and any narrower breadth may be sown at plea- 

 sure, merely with a "rod" with only teeth enough on 

 to sow the breadth desired. It has received the highest 

 recommendations from many hundreds of the best far- 

 mers 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. 



[The following is from the Albany Cultivator of June, 

 1848, by the Editor, L. Tucker.] 



"This cut represents Seymour's Sowing Machine 

 advertised in our last. It has been extensively used 

 in Western New York, and is much approved. We 

 saw many acres of various kinds of grain on the farm 

 of John Delafield, Esq., near Geneva, last season, which 



i had been sown with this machine, and we never saw 

 grain stand more evenly on the ground. Mr. Delafield 

 assured us he could sow anything — lime, plaster, poud- 

 rette, 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. Geddes, be- 

 fore the Onondaga County Agricultural Society.] 

 The sowing of plaster by hand is a very unpleasant 

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

 use one of Seymour's machines. With these machines 

 the plaster is evenly distributed over the whole ground 

 and for this reason a smaller quantity of plaster is re- 

 quired to touch every part of the surface. 



[From Ed. Southern Planter, Va,, Apri 6 1855.] 

 Seymours Patent Broadcasting Machine. — We again 

 call the attention of our subscribers to this machine. 

 Since the last number of the Planter was published we 

 have sowed \vith it one hundred acres irt oats, and they 

 are now up. We never had a crop so well seeded or 

 that promised better. 



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

 state our own experience. One horse works the ma- 

 chine with perfect ease, it being no heavier than a sin- 

 gle 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 eve- 

 ning. We had four three-horse harrows in the field and 

 a three-horse plough to sweep the water furrows. The 

 land required only one harrowing to get it v in order, the 

 tilth upon the fall and winter ploughing being remarka- 

 bly 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 perfectly 

 able to keep ahead of them. It sows a breadth of ten 

 feet as fast as a horse can walk, and carrying two bn- 

 shels 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 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 re- 

 commend the machine, therefore, to every farmer, but 

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

 who is nothing to us, but on their own. 



Albemarle, Va., March 7, 1855. 

 I purchased one of Mr. Seymours Plaster Sowers in 

 1854, .and it was ueed by myself and a neighbor in sow- 

 ing thirty or forty tons of Plaster. I purchased another 

 in the fall of 1854, and 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 acre was dusted by one third of a bushel. 

 My neighbor Mr. F. K. Nelson thinks he effected it with 

 one peck. I caunot 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. 



Fredericksburg, Va., Oct. 19, 1855. 

 To Messrs. Wellford, Eastham & Co, 



Gentlemen At your request I, with pleasure give 

 you 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 sowed with one of 

 these machines 300 bushels; it sows ten feet wide and 

 distributes the seed with perfect regularity, over the sur- 

 face at any rate you may desire to the acre. The quan- 

 tity is indicated by an index, to which a pointer is at- 

 tached, and a small boy capable of filljng the box with 

 wheat and driving so as not to vary much from the 

 track of the machine, can manage it as well as a grown 

 person. The grain is not affected by windy weather. I 

 think I can safely recommend the machine to the Agri- 

 cultural community. 



Very respectfully, your obedient servant, 



ROBERT W. CARTER. 



