THE BARN, PASTURE AND DAIRY. 93 



A CONVENIENCE FOR FLY TIME. 



The comfort which a cow seems to derive from a free 

 use of her tail during fly time, is not 

 shared in any degree by the milker, and 

 various means have been devised to hold 

 the troublesome appendage in place. One 

 of the latest is illustrated in figure 115. 

 Half a dozen six-penny wire nails are 

 driven through a piece of lath, and each 

 point bent to a hook. A brick is sus- 

 pended by a string from the lower end of 

 the stick. As the milker sits down beside 

 the cow, the hooks are thrust into the 

 brush of her tail, leaving the brick resting 

 in part on the ground or barn floor. After 



Fig. 115. TAIL- the first futile efforts to swing the brick 

 HOLDER. j^ tail power, the cows learn to give it 



up, and the milker is free from a very great annoyance. 



REINS FOR DRIVING OXEN. 



Figure 116 shows a method of arranging the reins for 

 a yoke of oxen. Each ox has a spring bull-ring placed in 



Fig. 116. DRIVING OXEN WITH REINS. 



