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Front Cover Title Page Copyright Page Contents I. Farm Conveniences

Bin for Oats Fastenings for Cows Movable Nests for Hens How to Get Rid of Straw The Management of Young Bulls A Convenient Ice-Hook Hints for the Workshop A Non-Patented Barrel Header Building Ribless Boats To Mend a Broken Tug Business Habits Hay Racks How to Extricate a Mired Animal How to Save and Keep Manure Grinding Tools A Method of Hanging Hogs Relief for Bog Spavin and Thorough-Pin Tool Boxes for Wagons, Etc Making a Hinge Shelter for the Head How to Level with Square and Plumb Line How to Keep Cattle under Cover Watering Places for Stock on Level Land A Shaving-Horse A Milking-Stool How to Treat Thrush A Western Locust Trap Manure Spreading Putting Away Tools Self-Closing Doors Ventilators for Fodder Stacks Corn Marker for Uneven Ground A Home-Made Harrow Clearing Land by Blasting Preventable Losses on the Farm A Cradle for Drawing a Boat Feed-Rack for Sheep How to Manage Night-Soil The Use of Lime in Blasting A Water and Feed Trough The Construction of Stalls Hog-Killing Implements—Ringing How to Mix Cement Ringing and Handling Bulls Sled for Removing Corn Shocks A Tagging Trough Lime and Lime Kilns Fall Fallowing Unloading Corn Stone Boats A Dump Cart To Prevent Washing of Hill-Sides A Log Mink-Trap Plowing From the Inside of the Field A Wire-Fence Tightener Planting Corn—A Marker Feed Trough and Halter The Horse-Show and Its Application How to Make a Fishing Scow Crows and Scarecrows Flood Fence Clearing Slough Land How to Dress a Beef A Farm Cart Braces for a Gate Post Whipple-Trees for Plowing Corn Safely What Trees to Plant for Fuel and Timber To Steady Portable Mills Splitting Rails and Posts A Mixture of Grasses Hitching a Crib-Biter How to Increase Vegetable Matter in the Soil Open Links Care of the Root Crops Trap for Sheep-Killing Dogs How to Use a File Properly A Mitre-Box The Manure Harvest Fastening Cattle with Bows The Preservation of Wood A Nest for Egg-Eating Hens Plowing Gear for a Kicking Mule A Leaf Fork Preservation of the Wheat Ground How to Drive a Horse-Shoe Nail Screw-Drivers To Prevent Cows Sucking Themselves Abuse of Barn Cellars Hay-Rack and Manger A Barn Basket The Treatment of Kicking Cows How to Build a Boat-House Waste Lands—Make Them Useful A Rat-Guard A Crupper-Pad for Horses A Dam for a Fish Pond A Wagon Jack Will You Feed Hay or Wood? A Brace for a Kicking Horse How to Save Liquid Manure An Open Shed for Feeding Shade for Horses’ Eyes Test All Seeds—Important A Field Roller A Portable Slop Barrel Where and How to Apply Fertilizers A Mill for Crushing Bones Lime and Limestone A Farm Wheelbarrow To Prevent the Balling of Horses To Prevent Cattle Throwing Fences Feed Boxes A Cattle Tie A Beef Raiser A Cedar Stem Soil-Stirrer A Hint for Pig-Killing Mending Broken Tools A Large Feed-Rack Barn Door Fastening A Fork Stable Scraper A Method of Curing Hay Granary Conveniences A Non-Slipping Chain for Boulders A Pitchfork Holder A Convenient Hog Loader A Home-Made Roller A Land Scraper A Home-Made Rag Holder A Safety Egg-Carrier A Bush-Roller Brood Sow Pens A Rabbit Trap Wooden Stable Floor A Rail Holder or “Grip” A Cheap and Durable Grindstone-Box and Hangers A “Ladder” for Loading Corn Protecting Outlet of Drains A Log Boat Cheap and Durable Wagon Seats A Bag-Holder on Platform Scales Making Board Drains Put Things in Their Places Water-Spout and Stock-Trough A Desirable Milking Shed Wear Plate for Harness Tugs and Collars Potable Water Fence Ditch Cleaner and Deepener How to Build a Dam Driving Hop and Other Poles A Convenient Grain Box A Road-Scraper Aids in Digging Root Crops The Wood-Lot in Winter Swinging-Stall Fronts Save All Corn Fodder Everywhere Improved Brush Rake Digging Muck and Peat Cleaner for Horses’ Hoofs Cold Weather Shelter for Stock Profitable Good Stone Troughs or Tanks Artificial Feeding of Lambs A Convenient Bailed Box Sawdust for Bedding A Cheap Ensilage Cart Milking and Milking Time A Revolving Sheep Hurdle Lights in the Barn A Nest for Sitting Hens Barn-Yard Economy A Cheap Manure Shed A Sheep Rack A Good Picket Pointer Sterilizing Oven and Bottle Truck Inexpensive Building Construction Cover for Sap Buckets A Handy Trough Substitute for Flood Gate Hooks for Shop or Store House Improving a Pasture Spring A General Farm Barn Handy Clod Crusher and Leveler Giving Seeds an Early Start in the Garden A Post Anchor Stoneboat from Two Boards A Handy Garden Barrow Homemade Trucks and Wheels A Roller from Mowing Machine Wheels Making a Picket Fence Hen-Tight Barrel Strawberry Culture

II. Farm Appliances

Chapter I. Racks, Mangers, Stanchions and Troughs

Racks and Feed Boxes for Horses Covered Horse Manger Feeding Trough and Hay Shute Device for Box Stall Various Cattle Stanchions Feeding Crib for Pork-Producing Sections Sheep Rack and Feed Box A Barrel Rack Improvements in Pig Troughs A Plank Trough A Protected Trough Troughs for the Pasture Improved Grain Bin Straw Baler Watering Troughs for Stock A Guarded Horse Trough Box for Watering Pails Home-Made Heating Vat

Chapter II. Vehicles, Rollers, Harrows and Markers.

A Cart for Breaking Colts A Home-Made Cart Apparatus for Lifting a Wagon-Body Jack for Wagon Box Serviceable Wagon-Jacks Adjustable Wagon Seat Lubricating Axles A Light Sleigh or “Jumper.” A Substantial Sled A Dump Sled A Triple Land Roller A Cheaper Triple Roller A Double Land Roller Stalk Leveler Useful Clod Crusher A Brush Harrow An Improved Harrow Frame Land-Markers Combined Marker and Clod-Crusher A Land Leveler

Chapter III. Small Tools and Appliances.

Bag Holders Handling Potatoes Grindstones and Frames Tool Holder How to Repair a Grindstone A Wooden Manger Fork Home-Made and Useful Chaff Forks Stable Scraper and Broom A Straw or Hay Hook Fork for Handling Stones Salt Box for Stock Safety Single-Tree Root Pulpers and Cutters Root Washers Clamps and Stools for Repairing Harness A Box Saw-Horse Long Saw-Bucks How to Tie a Bag A Home-Made Rake Head Working Building Stone Block for Sand-Paper

Chapter IV. Appliances for the Barn, Pasture and Dairy.

Convenient Stable Ventilator Light Needed in Barns Lanterns in the Barn Safety Stick for Mare’s Halter To Keep a Horse from Jumping Coupling Horses in the Pasture A Simple Tether Chain Cattle Tie An Unpatented Calf Feeder Two Kinds of Milking Stools Vat for Deep Setting Milk Home-Made Butter-Worker Reins for Driving Oxen Vat for Dipping Sheep Sheep-Shearing Bench Ear Tag Punch for Marking Animals Sewing Up Wounds in Animals

Chapter V. Wells, Pumps, Cisterns and Filters.

Windlass and Tilting Bucket Well-Curb of Staves Hemlock for Well-Curbs Securing the Well-Bucket Curb with a Bucket Shelf Covered Well-Curbs Impure Water in Wells Hook for Cleaning Wells A Non-Freezing Pump Agitation of Air in Wells Deepening Wells Digging a Well How to Build a Cistern Water in the Barn Yard Wooden Water Pipes Filters for Family Use Connecting Cisterns Build and Dimension of Cisterns Cisterns with Filters

Chapter VI. Appliances for Handling hay and Corn Fodder.

Revolving Horse Rake Care of Mowing Machines Sweep for Gathering Hay Hauling Hay or stalks Derrick for stacking Hay Carrier for Horse Fork Hay Barracks Supports for stacks Home-Made Hay Press Twisting Hay and straw Standard for Corn Shocks Ventilator for stacks Bench for Husking Corn-Stalk Band Convenient Fodder Carrier

Chapter VII. Stump-Pullers, Derricks and Slings.

Stump-Pullers Derricks for Farm Use Slings for Hoisting Heavy Objects Derrick for a Cellar. Lever Apparatus for Lifting A Home-Made Horse-Power

Chapter VIII. Preparing and Handling Fertilizers.

Hauling Barnyard Manure Implement for Fining Manure Muck and Peat How to Burn Lime Value of Gas Lime Burning Clay and Sods Converting Straw into Manure Manure from Marl and Shells Making Fertilizer from Bones

Chapter IX. Appliances for the Garden and Orchard.

Paper Plant Protector Muslin-Covered Plant Screen Protected Plant Label Poles for Beans and Other Climbers Potting Strawberry Plants Stand for Berry Baskets Tube for Watering Plants Movable Trellis for Grapes Tool for Cutting Edgings Substitute for Pea Brush Trellis for Tomatoes Tools for Killing Weeds Various Fruit Pickers Fruit Ladders Japanese Pruning Saw Rabbits and Mice in the Orchard Implements Used in Cranberry Culture

Chapter X. Appliances for Slaughtering Hogs and Curing the Meat.

Sticking Hogs A Better Way Heating the Water for Scalding Scalding Tubs and Vats Hanging and Cleaning the Hogs packing pork

III. Fences, Gates and Bridges

Chapter I. Rail and other Primitive Wood Fences.

Virginia Rail Fence Laying a Rail Fence Staking and Wiring A Fence of “Stakes and Riders” A Pole Fence Fences for Soil Liable to Heave Other Primitive Fences

Chapter II. Stone and Sod Fences.

How a Stone Wall Should Be Built Building a Stone Fence Truck for Moving Stones Reinforcing a Stone Wall A Composite Fence A Prairie Sod Fence

Chapter III. Board Fences.

Building Board Fences Fences for Land Subject to Overflow A Fence Board Holder Reinforcing a Board Fence

Chapter IV. Picket Fences.

A Good Garden Fence A Southern Picket Fence Fences of Split Pickets Ornamental Picket Fences Rustic Picket Fences Light Picket Fences Hand-Made Wire and Picket Fences Fence of Wire and Pickets

Chapter V. Barb-Wire Fence.

Barb-Wire Fence Steel Fence Staples How to Get Barb Wire Fence Unreeling and Stretching Barb Wire Wire Stretchers Splicing Barb Wires Building Wire Fences on Uneven Ground

Chapter VI. Fences of Barb Wire and Boards.

Combined Wire and Board Fence A Bracketed Fence Dog-Proof Fences

Chapter VII. Hedges.

The Best Hedge Plants Planting and Care of Osage Hedges Hedges for the South Ornamental Hedges and Screens

Chapter VIII. Portable Fences and Hedges.

Portable Board Fences Portable Fences of Poles or Wire Portable Fences for Windbreaks Portable Poultry Fences Portable Folding Fence Temporary Wire and Iron Fences

Chapter IX. Fences for Streams and Gullies.

Flood Fences Portable Tide Fence Watering Place in a Creek

Chapter X. Making and Setting Posts.

Making Fence Posts A Post Holder Driving Fence Posts By Hand To Drive Fence Posts Without Splitting A Powerful Post Driver Setting a Gate Post Live Posts Mending a Split Post Hook for Wiring Posts Drawing Fence Posts Lifting Posts By Hand Splicing Fence Posts Application of Wood Preservatives Iron Fence Posts

Chapter XI. Gates and Fastenings.

Wooden Gates A Very Substantial Farm Gate A Strong and Neat Gate Light Iron Gates Self-Closing Gates Gate for Village Lot A Chinese Door or Gate Spring Lifting Gates Rustic Gates Balance Gates Gate for Snowy Weather West India Farm Gates Double Gates Double-Latched Gates Improved Slide Gate A Combined Hinge and Sliding Gate Gates of Wood and Wire A Good and Cheap Farm Gate An Improved Wire Gate Taking up the Sag in Gates Good Gate Latches Top Hinge of Farm Gate Gateways in Wire Fence

Chapter XII. Wickets and Stiles.

Iron Wickets Wooden Wickets Stiles for Wire-Fences

Chapter XIII. Fence Law.

Fencing Out or Fencing In Division Fences Highway Fences What is a Legal Fence? Railroad Fences

Chapter XIV. Country Bridges and Culverts.

Strength of Bridges Braces and Trusses Abutments, Piers and Railings Bridges for Gullies Ornamental Bridges Road Culverts

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