June 
190 THE CULTIVATOR. 
Seymour''s Broadcast Sowing Machine. — Fig. 49. 
Seymour’s Machine. 
The annexed cut repre¬ 
sents Seymour’s sowing 
machine, advertised in our 
last. It has been pretty 
extensively used in Wes¬ 
tern New-York, and is 
much approved. We saw 
many acres of various kinds 
of grain on the farm of 
John Delafield, Esq., 
near Geneva, last season, 
which had been sown with 
this machine, and we nev¬ 
er saw grain stand more 
evenly on-the ground. Mr. 
D. assured us that he could 
sow anything,—lime, plas¬ 
ter, poudrette, guano, &c. 
or any seeds, from grass seed to peas or Indian corn, 
with perfect exactness, graduating the quantity per 
acre to a pint. It is manufactured bj P. Seymour, 
East Bloomfield, Ontario county, N. Y.—Price $45. 
Horses for 66 all work.” 
I notice articles in the Cultivator in reference to 
horses for all work. If farmers want horses of this kind, 
let them get the Cleveland bay, from Yorkshire, Eng¬ 
land. They are invariably of a bay color, with black 
legs, mane and tail. They are used for all work except 
the race course. They are from 15 to I 65 hands high, 
and weigh from 1000 to 1300 pounds each, with bone 
and sinew in proportion. They are easily kept in con¬ 
dition, inclining to be fat. They have good temper and 
good action as walkers, trotters, and slow gallopers. 
They are used in England for carriages, artillery, heavy 
carting, and even for hunting, with heavy weights. I 
think the most suitable horse farmers could breed would 
be Cleveland bays, 15s hands high, weighing eleven 
hundred pounds. J. H. Reid. 
Frederickton, New-Bruns wick, March , 1848. 
Experiment m sowing Wheat. 
At the winter meeting of the Yates County Agricul¬ 
tural Society, January, 1828, the following account ol 
an experiment tried by me for the purpose of ascertain¬ 
ing the proper quantity of seed wheat for one acre of 
land was read; for which the Society gave a premium, 
and-voted unanimously to have it published in the Culti¬ 
vator and Genesee Farmer : 
On the 23d of September, 1846, I sowed four plats 
of ground with wheat, on a summer-fallow that had 
been plowed five times during the summer. The ground 
was prepared in the following manner : After the soil 
had been finely pulverized with a hoe and rake, I mea¬ 
sure off accurately four sections each two feet square, 
leaving a small space between each of about six inches. 
The squares were then numbered and subdivided as fol¬ 
lows : No. 1 in squares I 5 inches each way ; No. 2 in 
squares of 3 inches ; No. 3 in those of four inches ; and 
No. 4 in squares of 4 4-5 inches, including the outside 
lines of each large square. I then, with the thumb and 
finger, carefully planted one kernel of wheat in the 
corner of each small square. 
The yield was as follows: 
On the 19th of July last, I carefully 'gathered the 
four parcels, keeping each by itself—shelled each by 
hand and counted the grains of each section separately. 
The results of which are given in the following table: 
On the 17tli of August, I had 4 ounces of the wheat 
carefully weighed by sealed scales ; and by counting 
all the grains weighed, I found there were 780 grains 
in one ounce ; from which I have made an estimate of 
the different yields, and also the rate of the differen 
amounts of seed per acre, for which see the following 
table : 
| No. 1 | 
No. 2 
2 
0 1 
| No, 4. 
1 
| 239 
1 81" 
f 49 | 
36 
| No. of grains planted. 
| 203 
| 60 
I 40 | 
L 30 ! 
| No. of grain that grew. 
| 286 | 
| 136 
1 112 | 
104 
| No. of heads produced, 
1 26 | 
35 
1 39 | 
" 42 | 
Av.no. of grs. per head. 
| 7458 | 
*4765 | 
| 4452 | 
4399 
| Whole n imber of grains. 
1 103 | 
69 | 
1 64 | 
63 
| Yield per acre in bushels. 
| B .lb 
| 4 12 
| B. lb. 
| 1 10 
1 -lb. | 
1 42| | 
is* ! 
| Amount of seed per acre in. 
| bushels and pounds. 
It may bo proper to add, that the soil was a clayey 
loam, which had never been manured and had been kept 
for pasture during the preceding six years. Should 
the ground be well prepared and sowed with a drill, it 
is probable, from the foregoing experiment, that the 
yield would be greater than if sowed broadcast. 
Milo, Yates Co. N. Y. Jan. 1848. A. C. 
Statistics of Lowell. 
Messrs EmTs.-From the statistics of Lowell collected 
in January last, we learn that the number of incorporated 
manufacturing establishments in the place at that time, 
was twelve. Capital invested in them $12,110,000. 
Number of mills 47. Number of spindles 301,297. 
do. of looms, 8749; number of females employed, 8 ,- 
635; do. males do., 3,995. Number of yards made 
per week, of cotton, 1,920,900; woolen, 21,291; car¬ 
peting, 6,500; rugs, 40. The number of pounds of 
cotton consumed per week is 637,000; do. of wool, 46, 
000 ; yards of printed goods 380,000; of dyed do., 1 ,- 
235,000. Twenty-five thousand four hundred tons of 
anthracite coal are used per annum in these establish¬ 
ments, and of charcoal 36,303 bushels. They also 
consume 77,810 gallons of oil, and 35,000 of lard in 
the same time, together with 1,190,000 pounds 
of starch and 765 barrels of flour. Eleven of the es¬ 
tablishments are warmed by steam, and one by steam 
and furnace. The average wages of females per week, 
clear of board, is two dollars; of males per day, clear 
ol board, eighty cents. 
The Middlesex Company makes use annually of 
6,000,000 teasels, 1,716,000 lbs. of fine wool, 80,000 
pounds of glue, $60,000 worth of dye stuffs, and $17,- 
000 worth of soap. 
There is a hospital for the benefit of the operatives, 
under the care of an able physician; two savings banks; 
three banks, to wit: The Lowell , with a capital of $200,- 
000 ; Railroad, capital $600,000; Appleton, capital 
$100,000 ; a mutual insurance company; a library of 7000 
volumes belonging to the city, the benefits of which 
are open to all on the payment of fifty cents a year. 
Other manufactures produced in the city, aside from 
