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Drill Machine.

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Fig. 1. and 2. Reprefent Cook’s improved Drill and Horfe-Hoe.

Fig. 1. Is the drill implement; a a the fliafts applied to the axis of the wheels; bb thewheels; c e the coulter-beam, having holes at proper diftances for the coulters; d d the handlesfixed to the coulter-beam, as well as the axis of the wheels, by ftaples or hooks and eyes; e »upper feed-box in partitions covered by a lid: //lower feed-box in partitions; gg Hidesbetween upper and lower feed-boxes, for regulating quantity of feed ; h h cylinder with cupsof different fizes for grain or feeds of different fizes, which take up and drop the feed into thefunnels i i, to be conveyed to the drills in the land kl\ /a hook applied to the axes of thewheels, to receive the links of a chain from the coulter-beam, in order to prevent the tubes frombeing difplaced in croffing gutters, &c. m a pin of iron projecting from the coulter-beam,which by being lifted on hook / bears the coulters out of the ground in turning, See. n a cog-wheel ; 0 another cog-wheel turned by wheel n p a lever and firing pafling over a pulley tothe axis of the cylinder h , by moving which to the notch in ftaple y, the wheel 0 is lifted outof generation with wheel », by which means the diftribution of feed is prevented at pleafure;* an iron bar perforated with holes, by which, with the pin put through the holes, the feed-boxmay be elevated or depreffed fo as to keep the lid level in all fituaiions; s s two flaples in theends of feed-box for receiving flips of wood with canvass, to prevent the wind interrupting the-feed, as well as dirt from falling from the wheels into the funnels i i.

Fig. 2. Is the fame implement fet for horfe hoeing. The fhafts, axis, wheels, coulter-beam,and handles, the fame as in fig. 1.; the feed-box ee, the cylinder, hh , the funnels ii, and the coultersk k being removed ; and the hoes aaaaaa introduced in the place of the coulters, Ic a guiderifing from the hoe-beam for directing the hoes ; c c the {hanks by which the machine is drawn#Fig. 3. Is a profile of Mr. Amos’s expanding horfe-hoe and harrow; a the regulatingwheel 10 inches in diameter, capable of being adjufted fo as that the {hares may cut at variousdepths ; b the beam, fix feet and a half long and three and a half fquare ; c leading {hare,riveted on {haft </, is an equilateral triangle of twelve inches; dfhank of {hare fixed in beam,two inches by half an inch fquare ; e edge of expanding {hares, two feet long and five broad ;/left hand mould-board, two feet long and ten by fix inches fquare, made of light wood,,hooked on iron rod g, and fixed to {hank h by ferew bolt; g iron rod palling the hind part ofleading (hare, the fore part of expanding {hares, the mould-board hooks, and the beam inwhich it is fixed by nut and ferew; h iron {hank fixed to the expanding {hares, kneed at top,where a circular part paffes the beam, and regulates the width of the expanding {hare; i thehandle three feet from the ground line, and the part held by, three feet behind end of beam ;h profile of fmall triangular harrow with expanding fides fixt to end of beam.

Fig ■ 4. A horizontal view of the expanding hoe and harrow; b the beam containingmortices for the {hanks of the regulating wheel and leading {hare; c leading {hare, to whichexpanding ones are fixed by bolt g; d d expanding {hares fixed to leading onec; te circular6