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1817. 
THE CULTIVATOR. 
ALBANY SEED DRILL AND CORN PLANTER. 
The above cut represents the latest improved Drill 
Barrow, with attachment H, for a horse, for planting 
corn, beans, &c., &e. This is, in its general features, 
similar to the well known English Drill or Brush Bar- 
row. It is light, strong, and durable; can be used by 
one man, as its whole weight will not exceed fifty 
pounds, or can be drawn by a horse, when a large 
amount of work is to be done. It is also quite simple; 
the small seeds, as onions, carrots, parsneps, turneps, 
&c., are sown by a revolving brush, D, inside the hop¬ 
per, and which forces the seeds through a hole in a 
tin slide or plate, at the bottom of the hopper,—the 
holes in the slides, varying in size according to the size 
and quantity of seed to. be sown. For corn, beans, 
peas, &c., the brush and tin slide, or plate, are re¬ 
moved, and a wood cylinder, C, substituted, with eight 
cavities in the same, equal distances apart, and in each 
cavity is a screw with a large head, which can be turned 
out or in to receive the requisite number of grains 
of seed to be sown in each hill. One or all these cavitie® 
may be used at the same time, according to the distance 
between the hills. The brush and cylinder both receive 
their rotary motion from the large or forward wheel . B. 
by means of small gear wheels, one of which, at B. is 
movable on the connecting rod from A to B, and can 
be confined so as to operate in any of the different rows 
or series of cogs in the face of the large wheel, and 
thereby receive a greater or less number of revolutions 
to the ground over which it moves, consequently vary¬ 
ing the distance of the hills with the cylinder, from 3 
to 6, 9, 12, 24, 36, 48, or 96 inches asunder. The 
plow can be placed up or down, to any required depth, 
or to suit tall or short persons holding the same; the 
scraper and roller follow and cover the seed, and 
compress the earth at one operation. Price com¬ 
plete, $12, and warranted; manufactured by H. L, 
Emery, and for sale at the Albany Agricultural Ware¬ 
house and Seed Store, Nos. 10 and 12 Green-street. 
EAGLE SELF-SHARPENING PLOW- 
The general form and construction of this plow 
is similar to that of the celebrated Eagle plow, manu¬ 
factured by the same company, Messrs. Ruggles, 
Nourse & Mason, Worcester, Massachusetts. There 
are five sizes of this plow, the smallest of which is 
adapted to one horse, and the largest to the plowing of 
greensward. 
The point, as shown at fig. 1, in the above cut, is 
simply a bar of wrought iron, steeled at each end, about 
twenty inches long, and passes upward into the body of' 
the plow, where it is confined by a bolt. As it becomes 
shorter, and worn on the under side, it is readily moved 
forward and turned the other side up, thus always pre¬ 
senting a sharp point of full length and proper 
shape. When one end is worn off five inches, the 
other end is placed forward and performs a like 
service. The wing or share, as shown de¬ 
tached, at fig. 2, is made of either wrought 
iron with steel edge, or of cast iron, and is also 
reversable, being used either end forward, or 
either side^pp. Both point and share are so 
simply constructed that any blacksmith can re¬ 
place them at trifling expense, or continue the 
use of the original by new-laying with steel, as 
they become worn. There is a coulter of cast- 
iron a little back and-above the point, shown 
detached at fig. 3, forming part of a cap, shown de¬ 
tached at fig. 4, which cap protects the shin or for¬ 
ward part of the mould board; it is confined in its place 
by the same bolt that confines the point, and is cheaply 
replaced when worn. This is much less expensive, and 
in many kinds of soil is quite as serviceable as a wrought 
iron coulter or cutter. The plows are sold with a cut¬ 
ter in addition to the cap, or without the cutter, as is 
desired. 
This plow is particularly recommended for southern 
plantations, where the blacksmiths on the estates can 
easily repair them. We think it a plow well deserving 
the attention of farmer®. 
