| Show agricultural MACHINERY tim THE winter will soon boon have passed away and tile tho farming C portion ol of the community will bo be plunging e into the ba business siness of plowing sowing in harrowing and planting with all the vigor 0 and almost hurried ness which a brief spring time and a rapidly rising temperature necessitate now is the time therefore to see that the required tools and implements and machines are procured and put into good condition and excellent working order among the things first required are plows and harrows and seed feed drilling machines the necessity of plows and harrows is everywhere eon conceded ceded but the advantages of using drill ing lag machines are not so universally C conceded on ceded or known or considered however it is very generally maintained that machines for drilling grain possess many nuns advantages and that ma chino chine drilled grain is far more secure from various casualties and far more certain to bring a fair yield than grain sown broad broadcast easu easL in great britain in various parts grain ls la almost universally drilled and crops thero there give a very high average yield while the be best bert qt fields return enormous crops in ma many u places where the soil is naturally naturally very greatly inferior to much of the best farming land in these valleys some of those drilled and otherwise well won cultivated fields when tho the growing browin grain min is in its prime are a sig sight gb t to 0 see one that stirs the inmost soul and gladdens the heart of a lover of agriculture for Instance ve recollect seeing a large field of wheat near gopsill park in which park is the seat of earl howe in leicestershire Leicester shire that field was a delight to gaze upon the growing wheat crop just belore coming into car appeared to be of perfect uniformity in healthy green color in sta stand nd or distribution and in height the tops of the wheat spears all over the field seeming to bo be as level w as 3 a table no thick nor thin places no clumps of rauk rank fertility nor patches of stunted growth no unhealthy bottle green camel humps nor stretches of sickly yellow or pale green hue not one of either so far as we could see on the contrary there was one regular expanse uniform in height and in distribution as a perfect regiment of soldiery and ano equally uniform in bright healthy green color demonstrating years of regular careful intelligent culture the results of which were beautiful to td behold one great help heip to such excellent and admirably uniform results in the cultivation of small grain is the use of drills for putting in the seed among the many advantages of drills may be mentioned the following I 1 saying saving of seed there is a certain depth which is best for the deposition of various kinds of seed grain experience with dit lerent seed and soil and in different seasons will teach teaell the best depths for seed to bp be put in when that is knowla drilling machine can be set to place and cover coyer the seed at precisely and uniformly the best depth debilt to secure the germination of the greatest I 1 proportion of the seed the most uniformly healthy growth and the largest yield of crop grain thus drilled in bein being C distributed evenly and regularly and uniformly covered at the tile most proper xyth depth is ia likely to grow uniformly as to time health strength and produce but when sova soia sown broadcast some is left uncovered and becomes food for birds some is but slightly covered and therefore perishes or has a weakly growth and some come is covered so deeply as to elther either fail fall to germinate or else make wake a weakly stunted growth and the g grain min ripens arregu arny ariy all over the field SO that probably a fifth of the seed or a peck or more per acre is 19 wasted besides ev everybody tery lery can see that where grain is evenly sown in rows not near so much is needed as where it is sown broadcast 2 protection from drought where grain is regularly put in at a U uniform and proper depth and consequently grows with regular healthiness it is reasonable enough that it will endure a dry spell better than where it is put in too shallow as is the case caze with much of the grain that is broadcast broad cast and which therefore makes an irregular unhealthy and weakly growth 3 prevention of winter killin killing 9 some sonic fall wheat is sown in t lils this territory and there is morg moro or less comp complaint faint of it being winter killed occasionally with a drill the grain can be deposited regularly in depth and otherwise and the drill leaves a small ridge on each side each roy row of grain so that as the soil freezes and thaws the ridges crumble and the soil falls upon the young grain roots thereby protecting and nourishing them till they wax may stronger and the season becomes more genial grain that is sown broadcast broad east cast has no such protection and the young youns plants especially those from the imperfectly covered seed are frequently heaved and injured by frost and thaw and exposed by the winds blowing the soil from their roots 4 greater productiveness this follows as a matter of course where grain is put in regularly as to distribution and depth and the plants germinate and grow uni firmly are better protected in winter and if necessary or desirable can bo be weeded between the rows with otherwise similar culture it is held to be not uncommon that d drilled rile grain ra n will yield three to ten bushels per r acre more than that sown broadcast and in some instances the difference is still more in in favor of the drilled grain one would think then that every farmer if possible would procure re a drill and put his grain in with it and thus endeavor to in insure the best crops reasonably possible those farmers who wish to obtain these machines or other useful agricultural machines machin es or implements pl elements emonts ts can find where they can be procured by co our 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