TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER I. 

 Racks, Mangers, Stanchions and Troughs 7-34 



Racks and Feed-Boxes for Horses ; Covered Horse 

 Manner ; Feeding Trough and Hay-Shute ; Device for 

 Box-Stall ; Feed Box for Extra Stall ; Various Cattle 

 Stanchions ; Feeding Crib for Pork Producing Sections ; 

 Sheep-Rack and Feed-Box ; A Barrel Rack ; Improve- 

 ments in Pig Troughs ; A Plank Trough ; A Protected 

 Trough ; Troughs for the Pasture ; Improved Grain Bin ; 

 Straw Baler ; Watering Troughs for Stock ; A Guarded 

 Horse Trough ; Box for Watering Pails ; Home-Made 

 Heating Vat. 



CHAPTER II. 



Vehicles, Rollers, Harrows and Markers , ~ 35-56 



A Cart for Breaking Colts ; A Home-Made Cart ; Ap- 

 paratus for Lifting a Wagon-Body ; Jack for Wagon 

 Box ; Serviceable Wagou Jacks ; Adjustable Wagon 

 Seat ; Lubricating Axles ; A Light Sleigh or "Jumper"; 

 A Substantial Sled ; A Dump Sled ; A Triple Land 

 Roller; A Cheaper Triple Roller; A Double Land 

 Roller ; Stalk Leveler ; Useful Clod Crusher ; A Brush 

 Harrow ; An Improved Harrow Frame ; Land Markers ; 

 Combined Marker and Clod-Crusher ; A Land Leveler. 



CHAPTER III. 

 Small Tools and Appliances - 57- 82 



Bag Holders ; Handling Potatoes ; Grindstones and 

 Frames ; Tool Holder ; How to Repair a Grindstone ; A 

 Wooden Manger Fork ; Home-Made and Useful Chaff 

 Forks ; Stable Scraper and Broom : A Straw or Hay 

 Hook ; Fork for Handling Stones ; Salt Box for Stock ; 

 Safety Single-Tree ; Root Pulpers and Cutters ; Root 

 Washers ; Clamps and Stool for Repairing Harness ; A 

 Box Saw-Horse ; Long Saw-Bucks ; How to Tie a Bag; 

 A Home-Made Rake Head ; Working Building Stone ; 

 Block for Sand-Paper. 



CHAPTER IV. 

 Appliances for the Barn, Pasture and Dairy - 82- 97 



Convenient Stable Ventilator ; Light needed in Barns ; 

 Lanterns in the Barn ; Safety Stick for Mare's Halter ; 

 To Keep a Horse from Jumping ; Coupling Horses in 

 the Pasture ; A Simple Tether ; Chain Cattle Tie ; An 

 Unpatented Calf-Feeder ; Two Kinds of Milking Stools ; 

 Vat for Deep-Setting Milk; Home-Made Butter Worker ; 

 A Convenience for 'Fly Time ; Reins for Driving Oxen ; 

 Vat for Dipping Sheep ; Sheep-Shearing Bench ; Ear 

 Tag Punch for Marking Animals ; Sewing up Wounds in 

 Animals. 



