FARM IMPLEMENTS. 



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opening, as shown at E, E, E; these are for the rope to pass through, and 

 also to Buspend it by. 



The traveler consists of a pulley and pulley box, H, with sides four inches 

 apart, extending up some seven or eight inches, which carry two rollers, N 

 N, four inches in diameter and one inch thick, which roll on each side of A, 

 and directly on B B. There is an eye, O, on the traveler, in which one end 

 of the haul rope is tied; it then passes around a pulley on the fork, then 

 through the pulley in box H, around pulley C,. through the hnkn E E E, 

 around pulley P, and around a pulley at the floor, then to horse. 



There is a latch, as shown at the right of the drawing, to hold the traveler 

 over the load until the fork is elevated; when the pulley on the fork strikes 

 the bottom of the latch and raises the catches up, then the fork moves back; 

 when the fork returns, the catches slide over the pin. 



There is a small rope (1) fast- 

 ened to the traveler by a clevis, 2; 

 said rope passes over a pulley, 3, 

 down to weight, 4, around the pul- 

 ley fastened to the weight, up to 

 the eye, 5, where it is tied. 



By this arrangement a long 

 track can be used in a low bam. 

 The weight will bring the fork back 

 without pulling on the trip cord. 



In using this plan, the horse, 

 after he has drawn up a forkful, is 

 turned to the left; around to the 

 side of the rope, and walked back 

 to the starting place; he is then 

 turned around to the right, on the 

 same side of the rope that he came 

 back on; by so doing, there is no 

 stepping over the rope, which gen- 

 erally twists or untwists it, and 

 renders it very liable to loop 

 around a horse's legs as the fork 

 comes back. The weight must be 

 only just heavy enough to bring 

 the fork back slowly, then the rope 

 will not pull on the horse when he 

 is coming back. 



Home-Made Tools Fre- HOME-MADE TOOL.— FIG. 1. 



quently the farm and garden tools 



and contrivances that are home-made are quite as effective as expensive 

 boughten ones, and farmers that are blessed with a little ingenuity are con- 

 tinually " fixing " up some kind of a labor-saving machine to work with. Our 

 illustrations represent two very handy and useful implements, of which a 

 former writes as follows: " While using to-day a tool which just suits me for 

 kQling weeds, it struck me that it might just suit others, oven if it is home- 

 made and not patented. To make it, take an old twelve or fourteen-inch 

 halTroimd file; grind off the teeth, bend it as shown in Fig. 1, and put it in 

 an ordinary handle. Now. if you want to loosen the soil, or pull ont sods or 

 large y^ds, you have a light pick to do it. If you want to kill ordinit ry 



