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of inch stuff, six inches wide, keep them from spreading. 

 Three or four upright two by four posts, four feet high, 

 with cross fence strips, are set on the main beam. This 

 holds the hay, and is braced at each end, as shown in the 

 engraving. There is on the bottom of each end runner, 

 a shoe one foot wide, two inches thick, and two or three 

 feet long, to give the teeth a downward inclination. The 

 teeth are tapered from the underside at each end, so as 

 not to run into the ground. There is an iron ring at the 

 bottom of each end post, to which ropes are fastened. 

 These ropes are sixteen feet long or more, and a whiffle- 

 tree is attached to the end of each. This contrivance 

 takes up the hay to the stack, and picks up any dropped 

 hay going back. 



HAULING HAY OR STALKS. 



Figure 152 shows a device for hauling an entire cock 

 of hay. It is made thus: First, get a pole, elm if pos- 

 sible, ten or eleven feet long, and about four inches 

 through at the butt. Peel off the bark, trim smooth, 



Fig. 152. DEVICE FOB HAULING HAT OB STALKS. 



and sharpen to a point. Bore two holes near each other 

 at the butt; pass a short piece of rope through the pole, 

 and tie to the link on a single tree. Bore another hole a 

 foot from the end, and pass through it a long one-inch 

 rope, shorter on one side, and tie a knot on the rope on 

 each side of the pole. When ready to commence hauling 

 push the pole under the hay-cock, then take the long end 

 of the rope, and pass it along side the hay-cock, and 



