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Report on the Agricultural Implements at 
In the Farmers' Friend Drill — also made at Dayton, Ohio — a place which 
appears celebrated for this class of manufacture, as these two were decidedly the 
best drills tried — the force-feed roller is cylindrical, with eight zigzag ribs, each 
alternate one running in the opposite direction ; the wheel is slightly concave, 
and as it revolves the grain is forced out from both sides of the cup, and a 
regular discharge is secured. The following figures (Nos. 33 and 34), represent 
Figs. 33-35. — Distributor of Farmeis' Friend Drill. 
Fig. 33. — Force-feed 
Spindle. 
Section or Wheel 
and Cup. 
Fig. 34— Seed-cup. 
the form of the roller and the delivery of the grain. Before one side of the 
wheel has fully discharged the grain, the other is coming up with an equal 
quantity. Fig. 35 gives a sectional view of the wheel and cup. The pro- 
jections on the bottom of the cup (Fig. 35) are for the attachment of the 
cup of the India-rubber tube, 
Fig. 36. — Arrangement for altering Quan~ which is so hooked on that it 
tity of Seed distributed by Farmers' cannot come off from the mo- 
Friend Drill. 
tion of the drill. 
In both these drills the quan- 
tity of seed is regulated by 
change-wheels, but in the Far- 
mers' Friend, by means of a 
cluster of wheels on a cone, the 
alteration can be effected in- 
stantaneously whilst the drill 
is in motion : this will be 
understood from the annexed 
drawing (Fig. 36). The change 
is made by pressing on a lever 
to which the cone is attached, 
which raises it out of gear, and 
moving the wheel on the shaft, 
right or left, into any of the 
wheels of the cone, the rear 
end of the shifting lever moves 
over a notched plate, where 
figures indicate what each 
wheel will sow ; half-peck 
changes can be made. The 
hoes or coulters are fixed as to 
the intervals at which the seed 
is drilled ; this is universal, 
and it is regrettable as limiting 
utility ; the distance is generally 8 inches, the coulters numbering from 8 to 
