FARM APPLIANCES. 



tion a very simple contrivance, figure 119, which any ma- 

 chine shop can furnish from the engraving and descrip- 

 tion herewith. Take a piece of steel rod, say five inches 

 long and about five-sixteenths of an 

 inch in diameter. Fix this in a 

 chuck and drill a hole endwise from 

 a to b in the engraving, which leaves 

 that end a hollow tube, the walls 

 of which are about one-thirty-second 

 of an inch thick, supposing a one- 

 quarter inch drill has been used. 

 Possibly a little smaller hole would 

 be better. Then file a notch in one 

 side at 5, so that it will clear readily. 

 Drill a small hole, c, near the one 

 end, in which to fit a short piece of 

 smaller wire, d, which forms a con- 

 Fig. 119. EAB PUNCH, venient gimlet-like handle. When 

 finished, have it nicely filed to a 

 taper 'at the hollow end, so as to form a thin cutting 

 edge, which must be kept quite sharp. After being 

 tempered it forms the best tool for its work ever invented. 

 To use the punch, hold in the left hand a large cork, 

 or a small block of wood, and carefully selecting the 

 proper place between the ribs or ridges of the ear, press 

 the punch snugly down, give it a quick, sharp twist, just 

 as one would a gimlet, and the animal scarcely flinches 

 at all, so slight is the pain. 



SEWING UP WOUNDS IN ANIMALS. 



The winter season is always prolific of accidents, chiefly 

 among horses, which are often badly blemished by cuts 

 which are left to heal imperfectly, without any assistance. 



