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each to keep it there. Hitch your team to it, jump on yourself, and drive 

 ahead. Once going over will be suificient. Your land will be finer than you 

 could harrow it in a week. It is bettor than a roller, for it levels the land, 

 does not pack it, and draws easier than either harrow or roller, and can be 



made by a boy ten years 

 old in half an hour's time. 



Spile or Post Driver. 



— Every farmer has often 

 seen the time, we believe, 

 when he could have saved 

 himself or his men a great 

 deal of hard labor, if he 

 could only have had the 

 use of a spile or post 

 driver to sink a few spiles 

 here on this marshy land, 

 to build a dam, or to drive 

 down a few posts there to 

 erect a small building upon 

 or to drive down a line of 

 fence posts; but, not being 

 the possessor of one him- 

 self, and not knowing where 

 he coiild borrow one con- 

 veniently from a neighbor, 

 the work has been done 

 without it, and much un- 

 necessary labor wasted 

 thereupon. We consider a 

 post driver one of the most 

 useful implements, for gen- 

 eral use, to be found upon 

 a farm. We present an il- 

 lustration of a good and 

 substantial post driver, 

 with simple directions how 

 it can be made, and would 

 offer the suggestion that 

 the dull months of the 

 winter season will afford a 

 good 9pportumty for those 

 who wish to provide them- 

 selves with one of these 

 useful implements, to do 

 so, and thus have it iu readiness for use when next season's work begins. 



The machine we have illustrated is of quite simple construction, and with 

 the exception of a little iron work, the pulleys and rope, may be made by 

 any farmer who is handy with tools. The pair of runners (1) are 9 feet long, 

 made of oak 7 inches wide and 4 inches thick. The cross pieces (2) are of 4 

 by 4-inch scantling. The distance from the rear cross pie<;e to the next one 

 is 10 inches, and from that to the front one is 2 1-2 feet. The rear cue is left 

 open in the middle, as represented, for the post. Two pieces of 2 by 4-inob 



SPILE OB POST DBIVEB. 



