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GRAIN DRILL, 
Plate XIII, 
FOR SOWING Alili KINDS OF GRAIN, GRASS SEEDS AND FERTILIZERS, 
FOR TWO HORSES. 
^70. This seed drill is calculated for sowing all coarse grains as well as fine seed com¬ 
monly sown by farmers—from corn and peas down to the smallest seed, as clover, timothy 
and other grass seeds, and for either broadcast or in drills. It is one of the most simple in 
its construction and machinery, as well as convenient and durable, and is believed to be 
better adapted to its various purposes than any other in use. See Plate XIII. 
Ail the working parts, as well as the grain distributing apparatus, are in view of the 
operator, who can readily see the grain for several inches, in its fall from the seed box into 
the tubes to the ground, and may constantly know that the seed is being deposited. 
Printed directions accompany each machine. They are furnished at the following prices : 
Drill No. 1, 9 teeth,.... $90 With Grass Seeder,.. $106 
Drill No. 2, 11 teeth,... 100 With Grass Seeder,...... 116 
§ 171. For sowing fertilizers at the same time with the seed, and to keep it in separate 
apartments from it, an additional hopper is attached, which will admit the fertilizer to pass 
with the seed into the ground through the same tubes of the drill. This attachment, as it is 
called, is furnished at the low price of §20, and is probably the best, as well as cheapest 
method of using an$ sowing fertilizers. 
BROADCAST SOWING- MACHINE. 
Plate XIII. 
§ 172. This is a light machine, suited for one horse, and is constructed with an ordinary 
wagon axle, or perhaps a little longer, with common wagon wheels. A pair of thills are 
attached to this axle, by which it is drawn. A seed box, ten to twelve feet long, is placed 
across the thills and forward of the wheels, and extends past them both ways. This seed box 
has several cross-divisions in it to prevent the seed from flowing endwise in sowing on undu¬ 
lating land. The distributing is done by means of a cam motion on one of the wheels, which 
vibrates a series of agitators and distributing cells in the bottom of the hopper. The operator 
is seated above and back of the hopper, and has the whole in view all the time. In turning 
and moving about without sowing the seed, he instantly stops the action of the agitators and 
distributing cells, and as readily starts them again when ready. 
The hopper is placed so near the ground that it will sow all kinds of seeds and fertili¬ 
zers evenly, in a windy as well as still day. The hoppers are provided with an arrange¬ 
ment for sowing damp as well as dry fertilizers. The machine is shown in the back ground 
of the lower picture, in Plate XIII. They are adapted for all seeds, from peas, wheat, 
&c., to clover and timothy, heavy or light, as well as fertilizers, and any quantity per acre. 
Price, with wliet-la, complete, with seed and fertilizer distributing apparatus, $40; without wheels, $82. 
CAHOON’S PA TENT BROADCAST 
SEED S O WEIR. 
FOR HAND AND HORSE POWER. 
§ 173. This consists of a cloth sack or bag, which is slung in front of the person, by a 
strap around his neck, shoulders and waist, and capable of holding three pecks of grain. 
The bottom of the sack is connected to a sheet-iron funnel shaped hopper, which has an 
adjustable discharge and agitators inside for feeding out the grain. In front of the discharge 
is a revolving hollow conical cylinder, open at both ends, with radial blades inside. The 
cylinder revolves on a horizontal shaft at a high velocity, by means of small gears and crank, 
which the operator turns as he walks steadily over the field. As the grain passes from the 
hopper into the small open end of the cylinder, the centrifugal force given it by the blades 
and motion of the conical cylinder, causes it to scatter to the right and left, and perpen¬ 
dicular, before the operator, and falls to the ground more evenly distributed than by any 
Other known process. The operator at his usual walking gait, will sow from four to six 
acres per hour, according to the specific gravity of the grain—wheat from forty to fifty feet, 
and oats twenty-five to thirty-five feet wide at each bout. With the machine attached to a 
large hopper and mounted in the rear end of a wagon, and driven by a band from the wagon 
wheels, an average of ten acres per hour can be sown. Several thousand of them have been 
sold and have given uniform satisfaction. It is the best hand broadcast sower, and by some 
it is claimed will supercede the expensive horse power sowing machines in use. 
Price, complete, for hand use,.. $10 00 For use by horse power,_........ $35 00 
