HANDY THINGS ABOUT THE FARM. 



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FIG. 4. A HOG JACK. 



should be six inches square and two feet long, and the legs mor- 

 tised in firmly. The head in which the lever works should be 



secured by a strong iron pin, 



which acts as a pivot, and at the 



end of the lever should be a 



swivel hook with a sharp point. 



The lever should be sixteen feet 



long, and may have several holes 



in it, so as to give more or less 



power as needed. 



Fig. 5 shows a cheap and 



simple contrivance for hanging up 



hogs. It consists of three poles 



or scantling eight feet long, bolted together at the top so that 



they can be raised or lowered. Hooks should be driven into the 



front of the two outside pieces on 

 which to hang the hog. These 

 are so easily made that it will pay 

 to have one for each hog. 



The farmer often wishes to hew 

 a lot of posts to prepare them for 

 the fence, and needs some simple 

 device to hold them in position. 

 Our cut (Fig. 6) shows one so sim- 

 FIG. ^-HANGING RACK FOB HOGS. p i e as to need no explanation. 



With the improvement in cross-cut saws, and the growing 

 scarcity of timber, the ax is used less and the saw more than 

 formerly in cutting wood. 

 It is hard on the back to 

 saw a log flat on the 

 ground, and the saw is 

 likely to be dulled, and 

 also to have the set taken 

 out of it by pinching. By 

 the use of the handy log- 

 holder shown in the CUt FlG - ^-POST-HOLDER. 



on the following page (Fig. 7), two men can easily roll up a 



