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CHAPTER XV. 



Suitable Wagons for Handling ; Potatoes are 

 Bulky, etc. 



One can not handily put a large load, or what a good team 

 can readily draw on hard roads, or an ordinary farm wagon. 

 You will find few wagons in this town that will hold 40 

 bushels, with the top box on. You will find hardly a single 

 one that would take on 50 or 75 bushel boxes, unless the hay- 

 rack were used. Now, when the roads are good our horses 

 can draw 50 to 75 bushels of potatoes to the depot as well as 

 not, and it seemed to us a simple matter of business to 

 arrange at once so we could put on a big load handily. Po- 

 tatoes are hard to handle, and, of course, we wanted our 

 wagons so fixed that we wouldn't have to lift them very high 

 to put them in. We studied up for ourselves something of 

 this kind some twenty years ago. We have had them in 

 almost constant use all these years. They suit us perfectly, 

 and we should be lost without them. 



Our wagons are ordinary ones. Our device for carrying a 

 large load is simply a light, neat, portable, flaring top box. 

 It is no higher to lift over than a common top box. It can 

 be taken off or put on in one minute, and it will hold a big 

 load. We have two wagons. On one we have drawn 66 

 bushels of potatoes in bulk, although 60 fills it pretty well. 

 The other wagon holds 20 per cent more. We find them just 

 the thing for drawing any bulky articles. For sawdust, 

 bran, ears of corn, stove wood, etc., they are complete. 



Fig. 1 shows one side-board, 18 inches wide, for a ten foot 

 wagon-box. Fig. 2 shows one of the three sets of irons that 

 are on the side-board. The inside iron is one inch by one- 

 half inch. The outside iron is one inch by one-fourth inch, 



