156 Description of Mr, Cooke's Drill Machine.(Sept.

* The fannels I 1, are all numbered 1,2, 3,4, 5, 6, and for drilling at nine inches must be applied to their respective places S0 as to correspond with the numbers 1,2, 3,4, 5, 6, ofthe Seed-box;" Six coulters being fixed in the coulter-beam at the distance of nine inches from each other.

For drilling at twelve mches a-part five coulters must be fixed in the beam, at eleven inches and a quarter from each other, whenthe order of the funnels will stand 1, 4, 5, 2,3,6, and no Seed putin the box opposite the funnel, No. 5, when Placed as aboye; the waste funnel may be Stopped with paper to receive any Seed that may accidentally fall therein.

For qrilling at eighteen inches apart, three coulters must be fixed in the left end of the beam, at eighteen inches from each other, when the order of the funnels will tand 1, 2, 3,4, 5, 6, and Seed put in the boxes opposite the funnels 1, 3, 5, only, the other boxes being empty.

For drilling at twenty-two inches, three coulters must be fixed in the beam, one at each end, and one in the middle; when the order of the funnels will Stand 1, 4, 5, 2,3,6;: Seed being put in the boxes opposite the funnels 1, 5, 6, only, the other boxes being empty.:

Two rows of peas at nine or twelve inches apart, and 3a Space of twenty-two inches alternately, has been tied and ap» proved.

In level lands without ridge and furrow, if the attendant on the machine cannot find a straight Side to begin at, he Should mark out with sticks or bushes a straight line along one 2ide of the field for his direction, and when drilling at nine inches, in order to make the space between the two adjoining drills, as he returns equal to the rest, the wheel of the machine mus! be brought very near the last impression of the coulter, and three inehes more istant from the last impression of the coulter, when drilling at twelve inches, and of other distances accord- WEINE 4,

As the machine approaches the land intended to be drilled, the lever P, Should be lifted up from the notch in the staple Q, when the conlters are two feet on this Side the exact place where the Seed Should be deposited; and the pin M removed from tbe hook L, by lifting up the handles D D.

When the machine arrives at the end of the land, thelever P.;must be moved to the notch Q, which will Stop in an instant the distribution of the Seed, and'the pin M lifted on the hook L, wbich will Support the coulters out of the ground whilethe machine 1s turnivg round.

IF the coulter Should not make the incisions»or drills Some- thing more than two inches deep in light 5ands or loams, and not quite two inches deep,(oue and 8a half is recommended) in Strong clays"or wet Soils, they may be- forced into the