from The Mechanics' Magazine
(1836)
Notes and Notices
Corn and Planting Machine - A free man of
colour, Henry Blair by name, has invented a machine called the
corn-planter, which is now exhibiting in the capital of Washington. It
is described as a very simple and ingenious machine, which, as moved by
a horse, opens the furrow, drops (at proper intervals, and in an exact
and suitable quantity,) the corn, covers it, and levels the earth, so
as, in fact, to plant the corn as rapidly as a horse can draw a plough
over the ground. The inventor thinks it will save the labour of eight
men. He is about to make some alterations in it to adapt it to the
planting of cotton. - New York Paper.
From: The
Mechanics' Magazine, Museum, Register, Journal, and Gazette;
Publ. J. Cunningham, London (6 Aug 1836) Vol XXV, No. 661, page 320.
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