56 THE YEAR-BOOK OF AGRICULTURE. 



extending over the wheel to the under side of the log, roll on the log with a cant-hook or 

 team and chain. Finally draw on the wheel with your team, which may be done by fasten- 

 ing a chain around and over the spokes, close to the hub of the wheel, as shown in/iy. 1. The 



Fig. 1. 



log should rest on the axle at one-third of the distance from the end. In drawing timber 

 thus trailing on the ground, the greate-t difficulty is, that the log does not follow the direct 

 track of the wheels, but inclines to one side or the other of the track, thus lying obliquely along 

 the road. To remedy this we use two chains — the one forming a noose under the log forward, 

 and as close to the axle as can be fastened; the other forming a noose some eight or ten feet 

 below, and connecting the two together in the manner shown iafy. 2. This plan will effec- 



Fig. 2. 



tually prevent the oblique trailing of the log; it will also answer where two logs are fastened 

 at a time. 



Improved Stump-Extractors. 



Thk Ghreenfield Gazette, Massachusetts, contains the foil owing notice of the working of anew 

 Stamp-extractor, owned and operated by W. W. Willis, of Orange. Massachusetts. The exhi- 

 bition was pnblio, notice baring been given to the adjoining districts, and a considerable 

 number of agriculturista weir p re se nt. "At the appointed time," saj - the • riter, "the hook 

 of a stout chain was placed onder the root of a moderately-eiied stomp, and it was turned 

 • ■lit with as much apparent ease :i- though it had been a mere log, with no attachments t" 

 the ground, other stumps, of still larger suteand more extensive roots, were then taken 



out: and all with certainty, and without the sli^hte-t confusion; and the time occupied in 



removing each one, after the chain was applied, not exceeding ten minutes!" 



An experiment on s Bomewhat larger scale was then tried with equal success. "An enor- 

 mous stomp, the growth, perhaps, of oentarie elected, and i larger chain made | 

 With a small half-ciroolar spade, room was made- under one of the roots, and i stout hook 



1 : the chain passing from the 1 k op over the end of the shears. Nearly the whole 



surfu f the ground about the stomp n red with the stamps of a later growth of 



young pine-, whose roots penetrated the soil, and mingled with those of their ancient pro- 

 genitor. The stump itself was between two and three feet hi diameter, and sound, as were 



•• A pair of stout oxen were then bitched to the lever and driven forward. When they had 



