Care of Implements. 245 



spaces are of different widths, you notice, to accommodate imple- 

 ments of different sizes : a is just wide enough so we can back in 

 our little binder, and then hay rake and six-foot mower go in front 

 of it; b, c, d and e are each eight feet. In b we put manure 

 spreader, roller, grain drill, etc., all tools requiring about seven - 

 foot-in-the-clear doors to go through readily. In c we keep a 

 double row of narrow tools like the potato digger and planter and 

 also harrows, cutaway, disc, etc. It is so arranged that we can 

 pack a large number of implements into these three spaces. In 

 the winter they are all in there except what may be upstairs. 

 Light tools, like plows, cultivators, Breed's weeder, etc., are kept 

 above. They are easily taken onto the upper floor from the space 

 /, anything that is too bulky to go up stairs. In d and e we keep 

 carriages. Of course, one in each place would be the handiest, 

 and we do not often need to have more, as a buggy can stand in/ 

 or on the barn floor, which is 13x45. But two buggies can be 

 put in each place ; d is high enough for an ordinary top -buggy, 

 e is extra high. My wife's little pony, canopy-top phaeton gen- 

 erally occupies d is there to-day. The family canopy-top surrey 

 is in e, the o'pen run-around is in f and the piano-box, leather- 

 top, narrow seat (just right for my son and his girl) is on the barn 

 floor. During haying and harvesting it will come down and 

 double up with the ladies' phaeton. The lumber wagons are 

 usualty kept on the barn floor or in the covered barnyard ; 

 always on barn floor in winter. The carriage harnesses are kept 

 in cupboard g at the rear of space ^, where they are shut in 

 away from dust, nice and clean. We have two single harnesses 

 in there and our best double harness is kept elsewhere at present. 

 We intend to extend the cupboard across the rear of space d 

 soon. Work harnesses are hung along the right hand side of 

 space /, right next to the door x which leads into the horse 

 stable. Notice the convenience of having horse stable right there 

 and still shut off by itself. 



If you have read to here you have waded through many 

 dry details. Let me tell a good little joke on my wife, brought to 

 mind by thinking of the tool house, just for a rest. I have 

 always meant she should have a horse and buggy for her special 

 use sometime, but didn't get around to it until a year ago last 

 spring. Then I bought her the neatest little, low-down ladies' 

 phaeton that I could find. She can step right in and out so easy! 

 And she well, she hasn't grown very poor, farming. Robert 

 and I managed to get it home without her mistrusting, for a won- 

 der, and after we had it all set up and dusted and put in the best 

 possible light to show off, Robert went in and asked his mother 

 to come out and help us move some tools, pa wanted her. She 

 came, and as she entered the tool house door she was saying: "I 

 thought you had been writing in the papers that you had your 

 tool house arranged" (so you could handle tools yourself) just 



