HAND SEEDERS 



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No. 28 



Planet Jr. Combined Hill 

 and Drill Seeder, Wheel 



Hoe, Cultivator, Rake and Plow 



Equipment: 



One pair 6-inch hoes. 

 One pair 4^-inch hoes 

 Three cultivator teeth. 

 One landside plow. 

 One pair 5-tooth rakes. 

 One leaf guard. 

 One marking attachment. 

 Steel handles. 



Price, $15.00 



Packed weight, 71 lbs. 

 Holds 3 quarts. 



This is our latest and best Combined Hill and Drill Seeder and Single Wheel 

 Hoe. It shows in its construction the results of the last four years' close study of 

 this class of tools and is the culmination of forty years' experience. 



ACCURACY OF CONSTRUCTION makes for accuracy in operation, and saves 

 seed and labor and insures a more even stand of plants and a more satisfactory crop. 



ACCURATE CASTINGS for the vital parts of the seeding devices are made of spe- 

 cial metal, and by the latest improved methods in the art, and have enabled us to pro- 

 duce a tool far more accurate in construction and in operation than anything we could 

 offer in previous years. Our new method of delivering the seed from the hopper is 

 superior to any that we have heretofore used, and the regularity obtained is most 

 gratifying. In extensive field trials on one large market garden, where 100 acres of 

 onions are sown annually by Planet Jr. Seeders, our No. 28 sowed with such perfection 

 as to call forth unqualified approval from the grower, 



WE RECOMMEND IT, therefore, as our very best seeder. It is light running; is 

 supplied with a narrow opening plow which plants the seed in a narrow, straight line, 

 leaving a minimum amount of hand weeding ; for the weeds are usually enough to one 

 side or the other of the straight, narrow row of plants as to be cut out easily with 

 a wheel hoe. 



AS A SEEDER it drops all garden seeds in hills, 4, 6, 8, 12 or 24 inches apart, or 

 sows them in drills with accuracy, opening , the furrow, covering, rolling down and 

 marking the next row all at one passage. The seeds drop in sight of the operator, 

 the rear of the spout being open and white. 



THE INDEX enables the operator to adjust the flow of seed to the finest point by 

 means of its brass thumbscrew, truly a hair's breadth at a time and just what is 



needed. This plan combines absolute regularity of the speed of the feed wheel with 

 the delicate adjustment of the discharge opening. Changeable speed feed wheels with 

 sets of holes of fixed sizes in a lot of change cylinders always getting lost, are ancient 

 history, to say the least, and in the same class are feeding brushes and agitating fingers. 

 Nor do we beheve in trying to sow seeds through a set of plate holes of fixed 

 sizes. Remember, too, seeds vary in size from year to year according to the season 

 or when grown under different conditions. For instance, California seeds, generally 

 grown on irrigated land, are usually larger than Eastern seeds of the same variety. 



THE COVERERS are arranged to be changed quickly in width and depth and are 

 especially designed to avoid clogging and to make regular work. 



