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money in horses, or in heavy and expensive- 

 machinery. There are disadvantages to hiring heavy 

 work done on contract, but so far I have been able 

 to manage that way, and probably will be for 

 some time to come. The only tools I had to buy 

 that are not normal home equipment are: 



Set of butchers' tools knives, saw, cleaver, block 

 and tackle for hoisting carcasses, lard press, sausage 

 stuffer. 



Hand-operated cream separator. 



Small motor-driven mill for grinding cereals. 



A spraying outfit mounted on a hand barrow. 



A pressure cooker: absolutely necessary for canning 

 all meats and some vegetables. 



An eighty-four-egg electric incubator. 



Two electrically lighted and heated brooders for 

 small chicks. 



One "finishing battery" brooder for birds six to 

 sixteen weeks old. 



Miscellaneous feed troughs for chickens and pigs. 

 Sixteen galvanized iron trap nests. 



Five galvanized iron ash cans to store stock feeds 

 out of reach of rats. 



Two scales: one for grading eggs by weight, and 

 one for weighing milk in the barn. 



I also have an apparatus for testing the butter- 

 fat content of milk. Aside from that, the only dis- 

 pensable article in the list is the mill. Grain can 

 be ground cheaply and easily at the local mills, 

 but for human consumption I prefer it freshly 



