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Coulter Cleaning Ploiv AttacHment. — Our engraving repfCfietite 

 a simple attachment to a plow, intended to keep the coulter free from ob- 

 structions when plowing in stubble or turning under long manure. It 

 consists of a rod of iron, one end of which is attached to the wheel of the 

 plow in such a manner that its turning will give the rod a backward and for- 

 ward motion. The rod passes 

 along under the beam and is 

 bent around its base, or the 

 shank of the plow in 

 wooden beamed ones, just 

 above the mold board, and 

 forms a loop against the 

 coulter. This loop, working 

 backward and forward, works 

 off all obstructions from the 

 coulter. 



g A Farm Tool Honse. — 



g One of the most useful and 

 W money-saving buildings that 

 < a farmer can place on bis 

 H premises is a spacious and 

 „ convenient tool house. It is 

 o generally the case that there 

 o is room enough in the various 

 p< outbuildings to house the 

 g fai-m implements if it is econ- 

 g omized; but it is a comer 

 g here and a few feet of bam or 

 t^ shed floor there; sometimes 

 ~3 in a cellar and sometimes in 

 H a loft, possibly easy of access, 

 p biit probably difficult, and in 

 8 all such instances it is space 

 originally intended and 

 needed for some other pur- 

 pose. Tho main reason why 

 so many farmers neglect pro- 

 tecting their implements from 

 the weather when not in use, 

 is the lack of convenient and 

 roomy storage. We lay great 

 stress on its being spacious 

 and handy; for if it is thus, 

 James will always drive the 

 lumber wagwi inside to take the hay rack off, and he will draw in the stone 

 boat with the plow and harrow and cultivator on it, and they will escape 

 the next rain or dew and tho consequent coat of rust. A farmer needs a 

 tool house as much as a horse-barn or a woodshed. Our illustration is sug- 

 gestive. It is adapted to a locality abounding Avith stone. The walls of the 

 building are made of that material, laid without mortar. The foundation 

 is placed below the frost, and the earth is banked on the outside to further 

 prt>teot them and to throw off water. The top of the wall is leveled with 



