FARM APPLIANCES. 



knife should be about four inches wide and one-quarter 

 inch thick, be placed diagonally in the slide, leaving half 

 an inch space between it and the bottom of the slide. 

 When using the apparatus all that is necessary is to move 

 the handle to and from the hopper. It works easily and 

 quickly, is durable, and with fair usuage is not likely to 

 get out of order. A ready way of chopping a 

 few roots, is to use a spade ground to a sharp 

 edge, and a box in which the roots are quickly 

 reduced to slices. A basket of turnips or ap- 

 ples, can be sliced in this way in one minute. 

 For a larger quantity, a chopper may be 

 made as in the engraving, figure 88. It has 

 two long blades, and the roots are hashed up 

 rapidly, and all danger of choking is avoided. 

 A common cast-iron winged gudgeon, having 

 steel strips riveted on the edges, answers as 

 well as one forged out by a blacksmith, at 

 several times its cost. The roots, so cut, 

 may be mixed with meal, and fed to the 

 cows. Apples are excellent for dairy cows when fed in 

 this way, and largely increase the flow of milk, besides 

 being healthy for them. 



Pig. 88. BOOT 



CUTTEK. 



BOOT WASHERS. 



A convenient washer for potatoes and roots, consists of 

 a kerosene barrel hung in a frame, as shown in figure 

 89, on next page. Two openings are made in one side 

 of the barrel a large one, two staves wide, and a small 

 one only one inch wide. The pieces cut out are used for 

 lids, both of which are fastened with hinges and but- 

 tons, and are made to fit tight by having thick cloth 

 tacked around their edges. A bushel of potatoes or 

 roots are placed in the barrel, with two or three buckets 



