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-THINGS TO MAKE^)N RAINY DAYS._
A GOOD FEED RACK.
Here are two pictures of a feeding
rack for cattle or colts, and a writer
In Wallace's Farmer gives the fol
lowing directions for making it:
"Materials.—Two pieces 2x8—16
feet; 3 pieces 2x6—14 feet; 4 pieces
2x4—16 feet; 2 pieces 2x4—14 feet;
1 piece 2x4 —12 feet; 2 pieces 1x6—
18 feet; 2 pieces 1x6—16 feet; 6
pieces 1x6 —14 feet; 9 pieces 1x12—
16 feet; 1 piece 1x12—14 feet; 56
pieces 1x3—4 feet; 4 wood screws 8
inches; 4 bolts ^xS inches; 4 bolts
\x7 Inches; 16 bolts %x5 inches;
30 bolt \x4 inches; 8 bolts »*x3Vi
inches; 3 pounds 8 penny wire nails;
washers for all bolts; 4 pounds 10
penny nails.
"Directions for Building.—Cut 2x3
for runners 16 feet long, and round
ends. Cut 2x6 for benches—7 feet
long, nnd cut a tenon at end 4 inches
long and 4 Inches wide, then bolt 2
benches on runners 3 inches from
end of runners to outside of benches,
and two benches 2 feet 8 Vi Inches
from end of runner to bench, and 2
benches ft feet 3 inches from end
of runner. Then measure 2 feet 6
inches from end of second benches
and make n straight mnrk on four
center benches. Bolt sloping posts
to benches with inside edge to
straight line; then cut 4 sloping posts
for corners, 7 feet 2 inches at short
side Bevel of end is 6%xl2 Inches.
(This bevel answer# for nil bevels In
rack.) Then cut four sloping posts
for side. 6 feet 11 Inches long. Cut 4
posts for sides, 4 feet 8** Inches from
shoulder to point, shoulder to rest
on top of runner and tenon, 4 Inches
to run dow n on outside of runner on
side of bench, and bolt fast to bench
nnd runner. Then cut 4 posts for
end. perpendicular, 5 feet *4 Inch
from shoulder to point; top end of
this post bolts on to end side of slop
ing posts at lower ends, shoulder sets
on runner and on end side of benches.
Then cut upper rack boards 16 feet
10 inchoB at top edge, bolt on Inside
at top of sloping posts. Then cut top
rack boards for ends. 8 feet 4 *4
Inches nt top edge, and bolt on end
of sloping post, outside at top, hav
ing your runners level or out of wind
and sloping post bolted to benches.
Fasten perpendicular posts to slop
ing and bolt fast. Then measure 4
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board down on sloping posts and fas
ten lower rack boards to this point.
Then nail rack strips 6 Inches apart,
four feet long, lay lloor on benches,
cutting notches to receive posts.
Hoard Bide 18 Inches high from
benches on outside of perpendicular
posts. This makes the manger 7x15
feet 10 Inches Inside.”
HOME-MADE LAND ROLLER.
The land roller Is one of the moBt
useful tools on the farm. A farmer
often needs one for preparing wheat
ground In the fall and corn land In
the spring. Hollers are also used for
working young corn, and leveling
roads or gruss Helds after the ground
thaws in the spring. As shown in the
accompanying photograph, a good
roller can be made from lumber usu
ally found about the farm. The frame
for the drums is made from 2xG
planks; the staves, or covering, from
i-’xt’s; the frame from 4x4’s, with
the axle and boxing of an old drill.
fl he pole can be taken from a dis
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clean and delightful bath as money
can buy.
If any one is doubtful about this,
let him experiment by putting a 5
cent wooden spigot in clean lard
stand or candy bucket, and try it in
his barn or wood shed.
The only difficulty in this plan is
in lifting the bucket of water to the
carded binder. A roller of this kind
does as good work as an iron one and
can be made at a cost of about $5.—
Thomas M. Cisel, in Farmer’s Voice.
IN INEXPENSIVE AND SATISFAC
TORY SHOWER HATH.
Messrs. Editors: I wish to com
mend The Progressive Farmer and
Gazette for bringing before its read
ers plans for furnishing country
homes with water and bath-rooms.
Every plan yet suggested incolves
more expense than the average fam
ily can afford. I offer herewith a
plan for a thoroughly satisfactory
shower bath, the cost of which is
within the reach of every one. The
only outlay of money would be for a
galvanised bueket. with metal spigot
Inserted in its side, near the bottom.
The cost of this should not be more
than $1 or $1.2 5. Any plumber can
make It.
This bucket is placed on a shelf on
kitchen wall, about 5 feet above the
floor. Next take a wash pan (an old
one will do) and drive a doeen or
more small nail holes In its bottom,
and tack it to bottom of shelf with
about two-thirds of it extending be
yond shelf. On the floor under pan,
place a large wash tub. Put about
two and a half gallons of water in
bucket, and you are ready for the
bath. Get in the tub, turn the spigot
slightly, and as the water trickles
down, use soap and bath rag. After
you have fully lathered and rubbed,
turn on more water, and you have as
shelf (about as high as your head).
A man can do so easily, but a woman
or child might not. A chair or step
ladder might be used; or a small pul
ley could be attached to overhead
ceiling, nearly over shelf; put
through it a sash cord with hook on
end. Hang bucket to hook and lift
by pulling cord, until slightly above
shelf. Then with hand it can be push
ed in place and lowered to shelf.
R. B. JOHN.
TWO NOVEL STALK CUTTERS.
I.—A Cultivator Attachment.
Messrs. Editors: It Is almost Im
possible for any up-to-date farmer to
get along conveniently without the
use of a stalk cutter. Any one using
a two-horse cultivator can have
practically the same machine for a
few dollars by making a reel cutter
and attaching to cultivator.
Make two rims of ordinary two
horse wagon tire, 56 Inches in cir
cumference. Drill eight %-lnch holes
7 inches apart In each rim. Make
crosses, using 2 by 2 tf-lnch timbers,
and lit tightly In each rim. Then use
3 or 4-lnch flat Iron for the knives,
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Inch bolts, flatten the head end of
bolt and rivet one to each end of
knife, allowing thread end of bolt
to go through rim and top to go on
Inside of rim, thus making knives de
tachable, so they may be sharpened
when necessary. Make hole In center
of each cross and put an Iron axle
through. The axle should be square
and not allowed to turn in the reel
but made round at the ends to turn
in holes bored in pieces of scantling
to be bolted to gangs of cultivator.
I use the Planet Jr. cultivator, and
by removing all but the two front
feet and bolting the two pieces of
wood that carry the reel to the gangs
of cultivator, I can adjust pressure as
desired. The two front feet without
shovels serve as drags to drag togeth
er the straggling stalks. I think this
can be attached to most any of the
riding cultivators.
G. G. BLACKWELDER.
II.—A Disk That Does the Work.
Messrs. Editors: A stalk chopper
Is a tool I would not have as a pres
ent, I have something that beats It so
far. Several years ago I decided to
buy a disk harrow, and I found one
having four disks on one side and
five on the other, not running paral
lel. The side that has five runs a lit
tle behind the others, so as to let
the fifth disk be behind the fourth
me on the other side and this leaves
10 small hard uncut ridge as is com
nonly the case. I can set this on a
’ow of stalks of any kind and any
size and it will plow them up and
jut them up at the same time and
3Ut any grass, etc., and break the
land well at the same time. So you
see I can take one hand—a boy at
that— and three good mules and cut
my stalks and other vegetation and
break my land at the same time.
And with just one more team that
it takes to chop the stalks with an
ordinary chopper.
W. G. KORNEGAY.
Wanted for Small Farm
Superintendent, who understands Intensive meth
3ds and poultry raising. J. F. DAVIES,
Box 238, Montgomery. Ala.
Low-Down Handy Wagons
Did you avernotlcehow much time two men
could lose going to the field to load n high wagon
—one waiting: on the other?
One man with a Low-Down Handy Wagon
would have the load half on before the two
men get started. Get our free catalogue.
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Plowman rides,
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1 evers and has ab
solute control how
ever hard the ground.
Saves horses; fits right
or left hand, wood or
steel beam plows. New
model has greatly im
proved lever adjustment.
Simple to handle. _
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