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Gen. E. O. C. Ord was a United States Army Coast Artillery Corps mine planter built in 1909 by Pusey & Jones of Wilmington, Delaware to an Army Quartermaster Corps design. The mine planter was among the first vessels specifically designed to plant controlled mines in association with coastal fortifications.
A two row planter featuring John Deere "71 Flexi" row units John Deere MaxEmerge XP Planter with Case IH AFS precision farming system which auto-steers using GPS A Kinze 2200 planter. A planter is a farm implement, usually towed behind a tractor, that sows (plants) seeds in rows throughout a field.
1902 model 12-run seed drill Modern air seeder and hoe drill combination. The invention of the seed drill dramatically improved germination. The seed drill employed a series of runners spaced at the same distance as the plowed furrows. These runners, or drills, opened the furrow to a uniform depth before the seed was dropped.
A manual planter is sometimes called a bell planter, which may have two farm hands sitting on the back whilst taking potatoes from a hopper. The length between potatoes is tolled by a bell, at the sound of which potatoes are thrown down tubes. An automatic planter is hitched behind a farm tractor with a three-point linkage and towed. Cups lift ...
Henry Blair (c. 1807–1860) was the second African American inventor to receive a US patent. [1]He was born in Glen Ross, Maryland, United States, in 1807.His first invention was the Seed-Planter, [2] patented October 14, 1834, which allowed farmers to plant more corn using less labor and in a shorter time.
Transplanters greatly reduce time required to transplant seedlings compared to manual transplanting. Among the crops that are transplanted with transplanters are strawberries, vegetables, tomatoes, cabbages, tobacco and rice. Semi-automatic mechanical transplanters are a common type, which can be self-propelled, or towed by a tractor at a low ...
Machine transplanting using rice transplanters requires considerably less time and labour than manual transplanting. It increases the approximate area that a person can plant from 700 to 10,000 square metres per day. However, rice transplanters are considerably expensive for almost all Asian small-hold farmers.
The phrase "ancient planter" was not an honorific; it was simply a descriptive term, as used in the "Instructions", for a planter of long standing. [7] According to a letter from John Rolfe dated January 1619/20: All the Ancient Planters being sett free have chosen places for their dividends according to the Comyssion.