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1803.] Remarks on Mr. Cooke!s Drill Machine. 933

insteadof being regularly delivered in the proportions required.

This inconvenience will de easily remedied by the expedient ts

which we have Just alluded. One of the larger and one ofthe

Smaller wheels may be employed at the Same time on the ma-

chine, the latter being applied to that part of the axis which

proceeds aboutthe middle of the land, and the larger ohe to pro-

Ceedin the furrow, and thus by gotug and returning on the Same

land, the larger one will be always in the furrow, and answer" the purpose designed.

By the precautions we have now e*plained, the flatness of the lands Mr. Cooke- Supposed necessary for the use of his machine wil] be avoided; tbe farmer 10 wet countries, where all his Seed would perisbh trom the Hatucss of the Superfices, will be able ty adhere to the ancient method which l0ug and paintul experience has discovered to be nece35ary in tlie pro- Cess of vegetation.;

LÜ is Said that the machine cannot be employed when the land is S0. wet. that the mould adberes to the feet. In Some in- Stances, in order to regover a late Scason in the uncertain eli- Mate to which we are exposed in this country, it Is ne- CesSary to employ the machine at untavourable times, and In Such cases the mould will attach itself to the-coulters, thb Seed will be thrown oft from its right direction, and the lower aperture ot the funnels will be ülled up. In this dificulty a boy SHould attend with the conductor of the machine, he Should be provided with a Small Spud, and as s0on as one or more of ihe coulters become cdlogged or incumbered, he Should disen- gage the earfh from it, and be particularly cautious to pre- vent its ascending'to the funnels. It will likewise be found convenient under Lheze circumstances when the machine stops at the end of every land, carefully. to clear the coulters of the adbesive mould.

In going over land in too wet a State, we have Sometimes found it necesgary to employ4wo boys in this Sort of duty; the One to be engaged as we have explained, the other to be em- ployed with the Same instrument on the wheels. IL is found when the rim of the wheels beginsto be clogged, thatthe earth accumulates upon them like a sn0w ball, and the machine can no longer proceed. If as Soon as the earth connects itself“ to the wheel, the boy apply bis. Spud to it and. remove it, this obstruction is avoided, and likewise the incouvenience of the mould falling into the'funnels adjacent to the wheels, which would in course prevent their delivering the seed.

It is observed in the account we bave given, that“ If weeds aceumulate upon the coulters, they must be displaced by a paddle; if he land be dry, weeds will not be very troublesome; but if wet and elammy, and fall of twiteb, it will be trouble- 80me, and more or less. preveit tbe- Seed being distributed re- gülarly in the drills." We agree wirk Mr. Cooke that z0me-