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and take a wide sweep. Lay the poles or scantling on 

 the ground about two feet apart and parallel. Staple 

 the wires on, three inches apart, at right angles with 

 the poles. If the ground to be harrowed is uneven, you 

 should saw about two poles out of three into three-foot 

 pieces, so that in operation it will undulate to fit the 

 swells and hollows. Of course, there must be a sizable, 

 long stick at front to which the team may be attached. 

 Get plenty of help to turn the ugly thing over work- 

 wise, without tangling, when it is done, so that the 

 poles will be on top and the wires on the ground. This 

 wire harrow is also an excellent thing for every farmer 

 who sows broadcast turnips, millet, clover, alfalfa, tim- 

 othy, or any very small seed, and preparatory to nice 

 gardening, it will make the soil fine as snuff, saving 

 labor with the hand rake. 



By broadcasting the seed before the fowls are let out 

 in the morning, the sight of the keeper is associated 

 with no gift or boon, whatever, and scrupulous care is 

 taken during the fifteen or eighteen months that limit 

 the lives of most of the main laying stock, never to 

 throw them, directly, a morsel of food. This precau- 

 tion of indirect feeding is not, however, carried out 

 with the small classes of sitters and fowls with pedigree 

 records, as will be explained hereafter. All motions 

 near the indirectly fed fowls should be slow and gentle ; 

 they should never be frightened, and should regard their 

 keeper with neither fear nor aversion, but with total 

 indifference. The two points, of differently appearing 

 premises at different stations, and indirect feeding, both 

 being attended to, we are enabled to keep separate flocks 

 in freedom upon one farm without yards. The method 

 of overcoming, by use of a team, the loss of time in 

 attendance caused by the scattering of the buildings, 

 will be described in its proper place, as well as the ways 

 of securing throughout the greatest economy in labor 

 and lumber. 



