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and a half feet. It is divided into sixteen stalls, twelve foot 

 lumber being used, projecting out six feet in front of the 

 house. Against the ends of these partitions, and parallel to 

 the front of the house, a tight board fence about three feet high 

 is constructed, thus making each stall twelve feet by six feet, 

 six feet square being under cover, and floored, and six feet 

 square on the ground, where the trough is placed. 



HAY MAKING. 



My hay is the common prairie hay. I usually commence 

 to cut it between the twentieth of August and the first of Sep- 

 tember. I use the Buckeye Junior mower, which being started, 

 for example in the morning, the mown hay is not touched until 

 after dinner the next day, Avhen I am ready to commence stack- 

 ing. For this purpose I use the Little Giant hay stacker, and 

 two rakes, each aboul^, twelve feet long. To stack with these 

 requires four men and five horses. The two rakes take the hay 

 from the swath just as it was left by the mower, and carry it to 

 the stacker. This force will stack just as much hay in a day 

 as these two rakes will carry to the stacker, which will vary 

 from forty to sixty tons. 



LITTLE GIANT STACKER. 



This consists of the foundation A H in the drawing, which 

 is fourteen feet long and eight feet wide. The two uprights 

 C D, are fourteen feet high ; and the ralce B E is about twelve 

 feet long. The hay is carried on to tins rake, and is elevated 

 by means of two ropes, the ends of which are made fast to the 

 two uprights at C and D, thence passing around the pulleys 

 near B and E. These two pulleys are fastened to two beams, 

 each two by six inches, attached by bolts, on which they 

 revolve, to the foundation timbers at F and H. The rake 

 rests on these beams. 



From the pulleys at B and E, the rope runs through 

 pulleys at C and D, thence down the uprights and through 

 pulleys at their feet, thence to the point P, where the horse is 

 attached. The horse pulling here, elevates the rake with its 

 load of hay. When the beams to which the rake is attached 



