Seed-plant′er.
An implement for planting seed in hills.
Fig. 4813 is a hand implement, to be drawn by one horse.
The seed-drill has a forward wheel, connecting by a crank and rod with the rod-shaft, which communicates by rods with the seed-slides of the separate hoppers, which discharge into the seedtubes of the shares.
The side-bars are pivoted to the main frame, and are adjustable laterally by rackbars and a central pinion.
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Fig. 4814 is a machine for planting in check rows, so that the field may be cultivated both ways, in hills, instead of only one way, in drills.
The ground, having been marked out one way, is crossed by this machine, and as it reaches each intersection with the previous furrows, the lever is moved by the man who rides on the machine, and the seed is dropped.
See corn-planter, page 627.
