NOVEL METHOD OF SOWING SEED.

Marlborough Daily Times, Volume II, Issue 134, 2 July 1880, Page 2 (Supplement)

NOVEL METHOD OF SOWING SEED.

A novel, system of seed sowing, and one. that almost rivals the work of machinery >n for speed, is (says the ‘ Ararat Advertiser’) patronised at;Challicuin by a farmer named'>v; : M‘Donald. Instead of. walking: over the. ho land on foot, carrying the grain and scatter- ' n ing it broadcast, Mr. M‘Donald has trained a horse to walk slowly up the furrows, o n, between the lauds, which are ploughed a suitable width, and carrying the seed on a saddle in front of him, lie scatters it as ; r he goes along. J3y this means he is ehabled noo to cover half the land ou bach side of him,:, or; and returning down the next division he completes.the half left on one side of him, ; and sows also half of another one. The horse apparently quite understands hie work, no never stepping out of the furrows, 'aud dm turning at the end of the field into? the . division between the next two lands, by this aid, we arc informed, 40 acres can be • sown per day, and thus the work is not Only v preformed speedily, but advantage can be .mi taken of a suitable day, and a larg<bar<3aipufc,'coin at or.ee: : r ' ■ -n-jf :m add vjk- ,7b

A guard in the rotunda, of tile State House" ' in Maine declares that he sawtliijjul(ieiigVa., portrait of Washington wink one of his • yosl The guard then gathered "liis demijohn together and retired. The only' Wonder”is ° that the guard didn’t see the portrait put its. / - thumb to its uose. • 1 A close observer of human nature; ,7. e remarks that a boy who won’t take as big bite as he can from another boy’s .applerds, ,: disguising bis real feelings, and should ■ be,-oh narrowly watched. , . . fi Ought a baker to drive a thorough-bread* ! - ,n horse? ■ <7 rv.ru