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Perhaps as much has been made by the three-horse business 

 as from the big wagons. Suppose two horses will draw 3000 

 pounds of load. The wagon weighs, say, 1000 more. Each 

 horse then draws 2000 all together. Now, if you put on a 

 third horse, and the wagon is strong enough to carry it, this 

 horse will draw 2000 pounds more, and that is all load no 

 more dead weight. See V In other words, two horses draw 

 3000 pounds of load and three horses draw 5000 pounds. If 

 you can earn $3.00 a day with the two-horse team, you can 

 make $5.00 with the three-horse team. This have I done 

 week after week, alone, with my own hands. Thus have we 

 worked up. In 1883, when we had the greatest crop of 

 potatoes ever grown by us, nearly 7000 bushels, we actually 

 received a thousand dollars more for them by drawing them 

 to Akron, direct to retail dealers, than we could sell them 

 for on track at our station to large dealers. We sold some 

 to try it. A thousand dollars more than regular carload 

 rates is a pretty nice sum ; but without businesslike arrange- 

 ments for moving them we never could have got them there. 

 Friends, do you remember I am writing about a little 

 fifty-acre farmer, who has only 35 acres of land he can plow, 

 and part of that not very good V Our cash sales that year 

 reached nearly $3000 ; but that was our very best year. 



Now, friend Eliott's three-horse whiffletrees that are 

 shown in another chapter are just the thing for using three 

 horses on a harrow, as told of. They can be used on an 

 ordinary two-horse pole, he says. I have not tried them in 

 that way, as I have a " direct-draft " three-horse pole, of my 

 own make, which is far better. Like the side-boards it seems 

 perfect. I have driven it through the most crowded streets 

 of Akron and Cleveland. It is business to use it for draw- 

 ing large loads long distances, or short distances when the 

 roads are bad. We simply take off the common single pole 

 and put on our double one, which is made to fit right in the 

 place of it. The double pole is an extra-heavy pair of thills. 

 One horse goes in the middle and one each side. You can 



