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kinds of feed, where it is required to fovv from one bulhel 
upwards on an acre. To low one, two, three gallons, or 
any of the intermediate quantities, as of clover, cole-feed, 
See. the brafs plate, fig. 7, is placed between the bridge 
and the Aider, with the largelt aperture, B, downwards, 
which aperture is enlarged or contracted by the Aider as be¬ 
fore. To fow turnips, the fame plate is placed between the 
bridge and the Aider, with its finalleft aperture. A, down¬ 
wards, and the hollow part about the fame aperture in¬ 
wards. 
A view of the regulator is given at fig. 8, by which the 
apertures in the feveral fpouts are all fet exactly alike, 
with the utmofl: eale, to make them feed equally. The 
extreme height of the largeft aperture is equal to the 
breadth AB, and the breadth at C is equal to the height 
of the linallelt aperture ufed, viz. that for turnips. The 
fide A C is divided into fixty equal parts, and on it 
moves the Aider or horfe D ; which being placed at any 
particular degree, according to the quantity of feed re¬ 
quired to be town on an acre, is fixed upon it, by a ferew 
on the fide of the Aider or horfe. When this is done, the 
end of the regulator is put through the aperture in the 
bridge or plate (whichever is intended to be ufed), and the 
Aider againll the bridge in the fpout railed by it, till it ftops 
againltthe horfe on the regulator; then the Aider is fattened 
againlt the bridge firmly by the two ferews, care being taken 
at the fame time that it ltands nearly fqiiare. Thus the 
fpouts, being all fixed in the fame manner, will feed equally. 
It is eafy to conceive that the fize of the apertures, and 
confequently the quantity of feed to be lown on an acre, 
may be regulated with a far greater accuracy than is re¬ 
quired in common practice. The fpouts may be regu¬ 
lated with the utmofl; nicety in five minutes, to fow each 
particular feed for the whole feafon. But a little prac¬ 
tice will enable any perfon, who poflefles but a very mo¬ 
derate capacity, to make the fpouts feed equally, even 
without uling the regulator. 
When the machine is to be ufed by hand, it is made 
lighter, with but three fpouts, without (hafts, and is 
driven forward by the handles. It has alfo a bolt in 
front, which, being pulhed in by the thumb, releafes the 
machine; fo that it can then eafily be placed in a perpen¬ 
dicular pofition. This alteration is neceflary to keep the 
handles of a convenient height, in lowing up and down 
a hill, where the (lope is confiderable ; and is done while 
the machine is turning-at the end of the length. The 
method of regulating and uling it is precifely the lame as 
when made to be drawn by a horfe. 
When the machine is to be ufed with a plough, as 
Ihown at fig. 3, it is, without doubt, the moft ufeful ap¬ 
plication of it. It can be fixed without difficulty to any 
kind of plough, in the fame manner as here reprefented. 
The advantages arifing from its ufe are confiderable; for, 
befides the increafe in the crop, which will be inlured by 
the feeds being broadcafl; with a mathematical nicety, a 
large proportion of feed (the value of which alone, in a 
few months, will amount to more than the price of the 
machine), and the feedfman’s labour, will be laved. The 
feed may likewife be fown either under or over furrow ; 
of one calt each way, as is praftifed by fome farmers. 
The leed alfo, being calt by the machine upon the frefli- 
ploughed land, may be immediately harrowed in, before 
the mould has loll any part of its moilture ; which in a 
dry feafon will greatly promote the crop. In drilling 
any kind of grain, pylle, or feed, it poflefles every pro¬ 
perty that can be wiflied for in the belt drill-plough, nor 
will it (as molt of them do) bruife the feed, or feed irre¬ 
gularly. 
Tb prepare it for drilling, inftead of the apron, place 
the long fpout, fig. 5, upon the brackets, on the front of 
the machine, by the ears A A, to receive the leed from 
the upper fpout, and fallen the lower end of it, by a (mail 
cord, to that hook upon which the apron is hung for 
broadcqlting, which is next the plough, as feen at fig. 9; 
die feed will then be directed by the long fpout to the 
centre of the furrow, near the heel of the plough. The 
fpring for correcting the ltrength of the ftroke, is necel- 
lary only when they are required to go along the fide of a 
confiderable declivity. The machine, when fixed to a 
plough, does not require the fmallell degree of ikill in 
uiing, as nothing is neceflary but to keep the hopper fill¬ 
ed, which will contain a fufficient quantity of feed to go 
upwards of 14.0 rods before it will want re-filling, when 
three bulhels and a half are fown on an acre. The accu¬ 
racy with which it will broadcalt, may in fome meafure 
be conceived, by conlidering that the feed regularly de- 
feends upon the apron or ffielf, and is from thence lcat- 
tered upon the ground, in quantity exactly proportioned 
to the fpeed of the plough ; alfo that each call fpreads to 
the third furrow ; and by this means lliuts upon the lait. 
In this manner it is continually filling up till the whole 
field is completely covered ; fo that it is impoflible to 
leave the finalleft fpace without its proper quantity of 
feed. When the plough is wanted for any other purpofe, 
the machine, with the wheel at the heel of the plough 
for giving it motion, can be removed or replaced at any 
time in a few minutes. 
Fig. 10 exhibits the machine with the front laid open 
to (how the infide. A, the catch-wheel fixed upon the 
axle. B B, the axle upon which the machine hangs be¬ 
tween the handles of the plough. C, the pulley, by 
which the llrap from the wheel at the heel of the plough 
turns the catch-wheel. D, the bar upon which the up¬ 
per fpout relts, lufpended by the diagonal fupporters EE, 
bearing againft the catch-wheel by the trigger F, and 
thereby kept in motion while the plough is going. G, 
the apron in a (loping pofition, upon which the corn or 
feed falls from the upper fpout, and is fcattered by re¬ 
bounding upon the land. It turns upon pivots, and by 
this means throws the feed either towards the right hand 
or left at pleafure. Fig. 11, lliows the upper fpout. 
At fig. u, the machine is reprefented fixed to a dou 15 - 
ble-furrow creafing-plough, as prepared for drilling. 
When thus connected, it is made with two upper and 
two long fpouts for drilling, two aprons for broadcalt- 
ing, and with a double hopper; but in other relpedrs the 
fame as when intended for a fmgle-furrow plough ; it is 
ufed in all cafes with the greatelt eafe imaginable. The 
interval between the points of the two fhares of a creat¬ 
ing-plough is ufually ten inches ; the beam about nine 
feet long; and the whole made of a light conftruflion. 
Of the DRAG and HARROW. 
The drag may be called a large harrow, and the har¬ 
row a fmall drag. Their deftination, however, is in fome 
relpefts different. The drag, being weighty and llrong, 
and the tines large, is employed to go firlt over the fal¬ 
low or rugged land, to tear the large and heavy clods in 
pieces, and loofen the mould which adheres to them. 
After the field or ground has lain for fome time in this 
Hate, and the fun and air have fomewhat pulverized the 
foil, and withered the grafs and weeds, then a pair of har¬ 
rows are to follow, (till further to fine down the mould, 
and bring up all rubbilh to the furface, where it lies ei¬ 
ther to wither and be burnt to alhes as manure to the 
grounds, or be carried off to form fome mix of compoft 
or manure, as may be moll convenient to the farmer. 
Another deftination of the harrow, but rarely of the 
drag, is to cover or head the corn after fowing, and to 
ftir or loofen young wheat and other crops in the fpring 
of the.year, when the roots appear to be baked up by a 
hard cruft; on the furface of the foil, and vegetation 
thereby weakened or impeded. 
Drag without a Joint. —This implement, correftly 
delineated in the Hulbandry Plate VII. fig. 1, is the in¬ 
vention of Mr. H. Wynne, calculated for ltrength and 
expedition in its work ; and will cover a piece of ground 
fix feet three inches broad, leaving intervals of only five 
inches between the tracks. Thefe, however, may be va¬ 
ried at pleaiure, llili preferring their Uriel regularity. 
The 
