Implements for futting uj) Trellis Wires. 



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IMPLEMENTS FOR PUTTING UP TRELLIS WIRES. 



By Fred E. Underhill, Brocton, N. Y. 



For the purpose nf facilitating the labor of putting up wire trellis, I 

 last winter made two simple devices, which have proved to be so use- 

 ful, that I have concluded to publish descriptions and drawings of them, 

 that others may avail themselves of the improvements. 



The first is a wire coupler, something similar to which I have seen 

 used in making connections in telegraph wire. 



The engraving (Fig. i) represents the implement about half the size 

 of the one I use. Any expert blacksmith can make one in twenty min- 

 utes. It is made of half inch round iron, with one end flattened and 

 stretched out to about five eighths of an inch in breadth and a quarter 

 of an inch in thickness. This is then bent over so as to leave an open 

 slot, large enough for the wire used to slip in and out with ease. Then 



