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leading pair being attached to the shafts, from which pair is 
derived the small power required to effect the measurement and 
deposition of the seed. The machine exhibited was capable of 
sowing six rows of corn or other seed at a time. The apparatus 
for forming the drills consists of six pressing-wheels, immediately 
followed by as many narrow hollow boxes or shares, which maintain 
the little trenches clean and open, and each trench perfectly dis- 
tinct, until the seed falls into them. Through these shares the 
seed is conducted by small tubes from the seed-box, or hopper, 
above them ; and immediately behind the shares is placed a pe- 
culiarly simple and effective kind of hoe for covering the seed. 
The seed is received upon sliders resting on the bottom of the 
hopper, and furnished with proper recipient holes, the size of 
which determines the number of seeds desired to be planted. 
Means are provided for striking off excess, and it was found, on 
repeated trials, that no greater difference took place in the number 
of seeds deposited than was fairly attributable to the difference in 
magnitude of the corns. The entire apparatus is readily raised 
out of the ground at headlands, or when turning. 
This machine is especially recommended by the judges to the 
notice of those agriculturists who have the means and wish to 
assist in developing and proving the merits of new inventions. If 
the preparation of a firm seed-bed be a good principle, this 
machine effects it as well as any presser — pressing and drilling 
six rows at once, with an adjustment for shifting the widths of the 
rows from 5 to any other number of inches apart desirable for 
grain ; and it either distributes the seed in a train, or drops it with- 
in a small compass. 
Drill Presser s. — After a minute inspection and trial of several 
pressers the Society's prize was bestowed on Mr. Hornsby, of 
Grantham, for his two-row drill-presser. Some good practical 
improvements in the manure-apparatus of this implement have 
been made since it commanded the preference at Southampton 
{sec last Report). In the event of a stoppage in the descent of 
the manure the attendant had, previously, to mount the box and 
push the manure down with a stick. This defect is now remfedicd 
by means of a moveable breast-board applied to the box, having a 
long iron handle attached to it, which enables the attendant to 
pull down the manure when necessary direct upon the coulters, 
so that he has no need to quit his place at the hind part of the 
drill. 
Dibbling Machines. — The prize offered for the best horse seed- 
dibl)ler was awarded to Mr. Newberry for his ingenious and now 
well-known machine. Its great weight is found fault with by 
some, but that is precisely the quality sought for and approved 
by other farmers in an implement of tliis kind. Its greatest pre- 
