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Title: Annual catalogue of seeds and implements
Identifier: CAT31282519 (find matches)
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: W. E. Barrett & Co; Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection
Subjects: Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Fruit Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs; Commercial catalogs Rhode Island Providence
Publisher: Providence, R. I. : W. E. Barrett & Co.
Contributing Library: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library
Digitizing Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library

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CATALOGUE OF IMPLEMENTS. 55
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The "Planet Jr." Garden Seed Drills. "PLANET JR." NO. 5 MARKET GARDENER'S HILL DROPPING SEED DRILL. PRICE $12.00 A Good Drill is one of the most important of all the market gardener's tools, and is often invaluable to the farmer. It " pays at both ends;" it saves labor and seed in plant- ing, work and worry in hoeing, and makes a larger and more even crop. Until quite recently there was no such thing as a good Hill Dropping Seeder; but the demand for a perfect machine for both hills and drills is large and growing, and properly so. If seed is drilled, and the plants thinned, it is often hard to find strong plants at regular distances, even with thick sowing; but with hill-planted crops less seed is required, and you are sure to find good plants at the exact spot where one is wanted. Therefore, thinned crops should be planted in hills. Ever since No. 3 Drill was placed on the market it has been the recognized standard, and has given universal satis- faction, but during 1896, the makers have been industriously working to bring out in its best form, an entirely new device for sowing seed; one that they have found exceedingly accurate and reliable, and extremely simple; it is embodied in two new drills. , . . . , , . . . . Character. The No. 5 Drill is the larger of the two; they are not only the latest, but by far the simplest and best of the hill dropping seeders; while also the most regular and accurate continuous row seeders we have ever seen. Ingenious without complication, direct acting, yet without gearing, brushes, feed wheels or agitators, they are at once durable, strong, light running and easily understood. ...... , , ~, . . . It is Simple, because the sowing device is but a single piece in addition to the hopper. inat piece is, of course, movable, and, in conjunction with pins in the carrying wheel, does all the necessary work of sowing in drills or dropping in hills. It is a simple shutter at the bottom of the hopper. " PLANET JR." No. 4 HILL DROPPING SEED DRILL, HOE, CULTIVATOR, RAKE AND PLOW. PRICE, complete, .... $10.00 »« as a drill only, . . 7.00 We are pleased to offer for 1897 a new, combined tool of great excellence, which we can scarcely recommend too highly. It combines conveniently in a single garden implement a capital hill dropping and a continuous row seeder, with the most perfect and complete single wheel hoe, cultivator, rake and plow that the most practical can de- sire. Designed by a practical man, it is light, compact, durable and easy running, and does all its great variety of work with a thorough- ness and perfection that has never before been attempted, much less equalled.

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