A CORN MARKER FOR UNEVEN GROUND.
The usual way of planting maize where the area is nob large, and a drill or corn planter is not used, is to mark out the drills on the prepared ground with a double board plough, and then afterwards either dibble in the seed at the proper distances, or a person drops the grains into the places prepared for them by a man who goes ahead of the sower with a hoe. A far more expeditious method, however, of marking out the rows is to use a corn-marker, as" it is called in America. We have illustrated such an implement on former occasions, and now give a cut of one intended to work on uneven ground. It consists of two pieces of plank ; these form the middle set of runners. Upon these pin two straight pieces of two by four scantling, with each end projecting over the runner, six inches. Two other pieces of plank, like ( the former, are procured (to form the outside runners), and one end of two more pieces of scantling are pinned to each run-| ncr ; then these cross beams are connected
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Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 376, 12 June 1889, Page 3
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192A CORN MARKER FOR UNEVEN GROUND. Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 376, 12 June 1889, Page 3
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