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Report to H.R.H. the President 



other for turnips. One improvement should be used with all drills, 

 as most conducive to the ease of the carter. Formerly drills went 



Garrett and Son's Seeding Drill. 



upon one pair of wheels^ but after they were made to carry a 

 large weight of manure it became hard work for the carter, who, 

 in his zeal to keep the work straight, while leading the thill horse 

 with a stick, steadied the shaft with the other hand, which was 

 almost benumbed when he reached the end of the furrow. A 

 fore-carriage was therefore added by Messrs. Garrett, which is 

 under the command of the carter, who, by a lever, keeps, without 

 exertion, one wheel in the rut down which it previously passed, 

 so that the rows must be perfectly parallel. This steerage is the 

 carter's friend, and the horse's friend too, as it removes a heavy 

 load from his back. Messrs. Hornsby have since adopted, and 

 perhaps improved on, the principle.* 



* Heport on Drills. — Nearly twenty of these implements were selected and sent down 

 to Pusey for trial. Messrs. Hornsby and Son bad five drills: their ten-rowed corn and 

 general purpose drill was a highly finished and well-made machine, with a recent 

 improvement, patented by them, of India-rubber tubes for conducting the seed down 

 to the channel made by the coulter, which I consider a valuable improvement upon 

 the old plan of a series of cups, made of tin, working one within the other. This drill 

 also has another improvement, of two coulter bars, by which an equal pressure is 

 obtained upon every coulter, and the double-action lever enables the manure to be 

 deposited to any depth, and covered up previous to the seed being deposited. The 

 price of this drill is 44Z. 



A ten-rowed corn and seed drill, peculiarly adapted to drill corn on side hills by a 

 highly finished and ingenious contrivance, of extending or contracting, by means of a 

 screw, two legs, similar to the governor of a steam-engine, attaclied to the side of the 

 drill, and by which (the drill being hung by or supported on the centre) it can be 

 regulated Avhile in motion. It has also improved slides for regulating the quantity of 

 seed delivered ; it has the improved India-rubber tubes and coulter bars, like the 

 iormer drill; also a very excellent fore steerage, with a rack and pinion attached, by 

 which it can be guided with great exactness. It did its work extremely well : and we 

 awarded it a Medal. 



A three-rowed drop drill, which can be used either on ridges or flat ground. It is 

 capable of depositing any pulverized manure at any required distance from 10 to 18 

 inches, in any given quantities from 10 to 50 bushels per acre. The seed can be 

 deposited with the manure, or the manure covered up with soil and the seed delivered 

 on the drops. The drill economizes manure, and worked very well. Price 24/, We 

 awarded it a Medal. 



A two-rowed turnip drill on the ridge, which can be made into a three-rowed turnip 



