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all department. of industry are eriously  of the wisest and most observant
farmers both

pealed.                   \        %F(. i Ne or this country and of Europe,
that drill-sow-
COLrmsr, O.. DLe., 1SL                     |ing is the only way in which
seeds can be uni-
                                            _   formly and evenly planted.

MECHANI (1A J. & C('MM ERCI AL.                That there isa proper
depth to plant wh4t,
                                             to enable it to germinate and
grow in the full-



est perfection, cannot be doubt-
ed: and the proper depth for one
kernel must also be the proper
depth for every other kernel sown
under the same circumstances.
Admitting the soundness of the
foregoing theory, and we hardly
3ee how any one can doubt it,
we would next ask, how any
such uniformity and evenness
can be attained by any broad-
cast work whatever?
  We are aware that some are
quite partial to broadcasting, and
are ready to buy any new-fang-
led implement intended for that
purpose; especially if it has some
kind of a drag or cultivator
hitched behind it with which
to cover the seed.
  Now, how   can any drag or
cultivator cover seeds uniformly
to thesame depth? Of course
some will be left on the surface,
some half an inch deep, and
some four inches, just as it hap-
pens; and no mere broadcasting
contrivance can possibly avoid it.
Not so with a good drill; it dis-
tributes the seed evenly, and
plants it to any depth desired,
with a uniformity and accuracy
that cannot be attained in any



            The Obio Grain Drill.           i otler way.
                                               So much for the theory and
principle of
  The rapidly increasilng iwulce t and faith, 1
among our farmers, in drill-sowed grain, a; things; now for the practical
results to back
compared with broadcasting, leads us to again them up. Numbers who have sown
with drille
refer to the subject, and to repeat, in sub- during the past season, assure
us that they ob-
stance, some of our old arguments in its favor tained much better crops than
their neighbors
  We have long been fully convinced, both by who broadcasted upon the same
kind and qual-
our own observation, as well as the testimony ity of ground.



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