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In Fig. 4 the plain lines show a cross-section of box, top 

 box, braces, and top of load. The lower dotted show, at a 

 glance, how much less a common top box of the same height 

 would hold, while the upper dotted lines show how very high 

 the common top box would have to be in order to hold as 

 much. Still, the dotted lines show the kinds mostly in use, 

 arid the high one, or double top-box, will cost more than my 

 kind, and is much harder to load into. The brake-handle 

 comes up through a hole in the side-board near the front, 

 and two pieces of boards are nailed together to set around 

 it, so as to keep potatoes from interfering with its move- 

 menta simple little device that any one can study up with- 

 out a cut. 



It is stating the case very mildly to say that these top 

 boxes have been worth hundreds of dollars to me during the 

 twenty years they have been in use on my farm, for drawing 

 potatoes and other bulky articles ; that is, that I am that 

 much better oif than I otherwise would have been. 



I do not want any one to overwork his horses. I assure 

 you we do not. But it worries me greatly to see a farmer, 

 who is in debt and sadly in need of larger profits, go to town 

 with 50 per cent less load than he might just as well draw, 

 simply because he does not study to do his best. I have no 

 top boxes for sale. There is no patent on them. Any 

 wagonmaker can get up a set from these pictures and the 

 description. When the roads are bad we sometimes use 

 three horses abreast to draw these big loads. I have moved 

 my entire crop, alone, in this way, either to the depot (2| 

 miles) or to Akron (12 miles), without paying out any thing 

 for help. I got along almost as fast as if two teams and 

 wagons had been used, and saved the wages of a driver. 

 Yes, friends, I have done all these things myself, and many 

 more that won't get into this little pamphlet. I am not 

 talking to you about something that I know of only at arm's 

 length. Week after week and month after month have I 

 rode on these wagons and driven these three horses abreast. 



