A "drill" or mechanical planter drawn by horses was used, which could be adapted for use with oats, barley or rye.
"Frying Pan Farm"
Elizabeth Brown Pryor
With these tasks completed, and a final check on the barns to see that all was snug, the farmer's day was nearly complete by about 6:00. He ate a hearty supper, then read The Southern planter, and possibly mended farm machinery or did a little work in the barn.
"Frying Pan Farm"
Elizabeth Brown Pryor
Whites, sallow-complexioned townspeople, there were too, standing about exchanging conversation-rather listlessly, for the close of a hot summer day in Durban is apt to find men not a little languid-and here and there a bronzed planter or farmer cantering down the street, bound for his country home among the sugar-canes or the bush.
"The Luck of Gerard Ridgeley"
Bertram Mitford