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You will also find, if you try, that you can re-stufFand 

 cover cushions, line curtains, and ''fix up" your vehicles 

 generally, not only improving their appearance, but con- 

 tributing to their longevity. 



A thrifty farmer can also avoid having unsafe wheels, 

 by soaking them thoroughly once a year with hot linseed 

 oil, hiid on with a paint-brush ; keep it as hot as possible 

 while using it — a small iron j^ot set on top of glowing em- 

 bers is the best way. Wheels treated in this simple man- 

 ner will last a life-time, and shrunken spokes and loose 

 tires will be things obsolete. 



Of scarcely, if any, less importance than a good vehicle 

 is harness of a similar character. From faults in these two 

 particulars come more than half the accidents on the road 

 that we see chronicled from time to time. Thanks to de- 

 fective harness which gave way, frightening the horse, the 

 writer was once thrown from a cart and dragged beneath 

 it, holding fast to the reins, until the runaway brought up 

 against a tree, as a Florida 'runaway is certain to do sooner 

 or later. Yet that harness was supposed to be of excellent 

 quality ; but it Avas not, as what might have been a fatal 

 experience proved ; and so many like instances have come 

 to our knowledge that we deem it a duty to our readers 

 to put them on guard, and advise the purchase of harness 

 direct from reliable manufacturers who have reputations 

 to lose by sending out faulty harness. 



That there are many who come under this head we have 

 no doubt ; but, personally, we only know of one, and are 

 quite satisfied; and, as the State Granges of New Hamp- 

 shire, Vermont, Massachusetts, and Connecticut give their 

 unqualified indorsement of the manufacturing firm of King 

 & Co., of Owego, New York, we feel no hesitation in fol- 

 lowing in their lead, as, both for quality and low prices, 

 we have been unable to find their equal. 



