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AGRICULTURAL MAGAZINE.

No. LEJ OCTOBER, 1803.[Vor IX.

DESCRIPTION'OF' MR. COOKE'S PATENT HORSB-HOE, FOR HOEING CROPSSOWN AT VARIOUS DISTANCES, BY THE DRILL MACHINE.|;

WITH A PLATE ANNEXED.

N our last Number we gave the description*of a Patent

Drill Machine, invented by the Rev. James Cooke, and we Stated“ this drill comprises two different engines, the one is exclusively for sowing the land, the other for hoeing it at the different periods, from the formation of the first Shoot to the approach of the vegetable to a State of maturescence."

"The part of this machine applicable to horse-hoeing 1s the Subject of the plate attached to the present number. The Shafts;the axis, and wheels, the coulter-beam, with the handles, are the game as in the preceding plate, but six Shares or horse-hoes are here added AAAAA A,in the places of the coukers, and the following parts are taken away, as being uscless for the purpose to which it is now applicable, viz. the Sceed-box E E, the cylinders HH, the funnels 11, and the coulters K K, for which our readers may refer to our last Number.;

CC is a guide projecting from the hoe-beam, which is use- ful in influencing the directioa of the hoes, 50 as to avoid cut- ting up the rows ot corn.

For borse-hoeing a crop of any kind of corn, drilled at nine inches apart, the horse must be conducted along the third row or drill, beginning to number the rows, from the left hand Side of the six rows drilled at one operation of the machine. And the person who attends the hoes must keep the pin B direct] over the third row of corn, and 50 long as be does this, it will be imposSible for him to injure it in the least,

For horse-hoeing corn art twelve inches apart, the horse must be conducted along the Second space, between the rows or drills, beginning to number the spaces from the left hand Side ofthe fiverows drilled at one operation ofthe machine. And the person who attends the hoes, must kcep the pin B directly over the middle of the Second space, described as above; the Same rule will hold good for hoeing at different distances.

. Where the Spaces between the two adjoining outside drills Shall happen to be irregular, as being 100 narrow at Some places for the hoe to pass, it may be adviseable to take out the Share, which would otherwise hoe that place, and leave it te be hoed by hand.

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