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EMERY’S SEED PLANTERS. 
Plate XIII. 
ALBANY CORN AND SEED PLANTER. 
§ 115. Also known as Emery’s Corn Planter—for hand or horse power, and adapted for 
all kinds of seeds, large or small, heavy or light, and any amount to the hill, drill or acre. It 
is also equally well adapted for hills or drills. This is shown in the foreground in the en¬ 
graved group of Planters in Plate XIII. This has been in use nearly twelve years, and has 
been the most successful of all machines for the purpose intended—working equally well with 
all kinds of seeds and soils. It has gained a world-wide reputation, and enjoys a constantly 
increasing demand; and, notwithstanding the scores of more recent inventions, and many 
times more effort made to introduce them, this Albany Planter still maintains its supremacy. 
It has a wooden cylinder fitted inside the seed hopper, when corn and like 
seeds are to be planted, as seen in fig. 1. This cylinder has a series of cells or 
cups in its surface, which are adjustable to any amount or size of the seeds, 
or can be arranged so that only a portion of the cups shall receive seeds, while 
the others take none at all. 
This cylinder receives a motion by means of its shaft and gear wheels and 
connection with the large forward ground wheel. The disc of this large 
wheel having several rows of cogs, it can be made to give any variety of motion required to 
the cylinder, for planting various seeds, in different quantities and distances apart. With all 
the cells open, and the highest motion of the gears, it will drop once for every three or four 
inches, or equivalent to drill planting; while by shutting off a portion of the cells, and a 
slower motion, any desired distance may be obtained, to eight feet between the hills. It has 
a plow adjustable to any depth, and a coverer which scrapes the requisite amount of earth 
over the seed, and a compressiug roller following, finishes the work at one operation. By 
lashing a wooden rod crosswise the frame, nearly over the plow, and attaching one end of a 
trace chain to it, at each side of the planter, and the width apart desired for the rows, the 
machine will mark off its rows as it works through the field, as while one chain drags in the 
mark last made, the other makes a new mark as it drags over the earth, thus planting exactly 
between the marks and always parallel. From six to ten acres per day can be planted with 
one man and a horse, with rows three and a half feet apart. When used without a horse, 
not so much can be done. 
For Small Seeds and Drill Sowing. 
§ 116. Many seeds which are of variable forms and gravity, as well as the 
most difficult to sow by hand, require the most care in sowing, as to quantity, dis¬ 
tribution and depth, a machine, therefore, to operate well in all these variations, 
cannot depend upon the gravity of the seeds or size of the cells, as in the cyl¬ 
inder before described, but has a circular brush fixed upon the spindle inside 
the hopper, in place of the cylinder, and which receives the same motions 
from the gearing—the brush is shown in fig. 2. 
There is also a series of metallic slides to fit and form the bottom of the hopper, each slide 
having holes of different diameters, through which the seed is forced by the action of the 
brush inside—the quantity of the seed depending upon the size of the hole in the slide, 
which is in the hopper. The Planter makes its furrow, deposits with unerring accuracy the 
requisite amount of seed into it, and the roller follows and finishes the operation. 
Several other parties, here and elsewhere, have made patterns from this Planter, and made 
and sold planters, representing them to be the same, none of which are so made as to do the 
work as well or uniformly, and few, if any of them, have been made so as to avoid breaking 
and grinding the seed, or retaining more or less in the cells, and dropping irregularly. 
Price 114. 
GARDEN BRILL ANB PLANTER. 
§ 117. For all kinds of seeds, large and small, for garden use. This is shown on the right 
hand of the group in Plate XIII. This two-handled Garden Drill is calculated for small and 
light seeds, has the circular brush and sliding metallic plates, same as the simple drill, and as 
used in the Planter last described. It also has a wooden cylinder, with adjustable cells, for 
sowing large and heavy seeds like peas, beans, This cylinder can be instantly substituted 
for the brush, and vice versa. This is only adapted for drills, although capable of operating 
with all kinds and quantities of seed. It covers the seed and rolls the ground at the same 
time. Price $6. 
SEEB BRILL. 
§ 118. Intended only for small seeds and for drill sowing. This is seen on the left of the 
group. Plate XIII. This one-handied Seed Drill is a light, simple machine, and adapted to 
drilling small and light seeds only. The axle passes through the lower portion of the hop¬ 
per, and turns with the wheel, giving motion to the brush inside, and it is provided with the 
series of metallic slides, as in the other machines. Price $3. 
Fig. 2. 
Fig. 1. 
