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mortar, and a two-inch plank laid on, to which the rafters are spiked. The 

 latter are braced on the inside by nailing on cross strips. The roof may he 

 made of the cheapest material, which varies with locahties. There is one 

 window in the end opposite the door. The doorway should be twelve feet 

 wide to admit a reaper, and if the location is not too mnch exposed there is 

 little need of doors. The gronnd is the floor. The walls are but six feet 

 high, and the structure should be twenty wide by thirty or forty long. Such 

 a building will cost but httle where stones are in the w^. The farmer can 

 build it, and will save many 

 dollars in twenty years, and 

 many steps each year other- 

 wise taken after mislaid im- 

 plements. 



A Home-^Iade Con»- 

 Slteller. — This is simply the 

 tise of a bar of iron laid 

 across a box. The box is 

 made of a convenient height 

 to sit upon, say twelve or 

 fourteen inches, and is eight- 

 een by thirty inches square. 

 This size will hold over two 

 bushels. The bar of iron (or, better, of steel) should be 3-i by 1-4 of an 

 inch in size, and a little longer than the box. Pat a staple sufficiently large 

 to admit the bar into the middle of the upper edge of one end of the box, 

 and cut a notch the size of the bar in the other end. Put in the bar, pnt a 

 piece of board across the notched end for a seat and go ahead with y. iir 

 shelling. Both hands are used in tlie operation, the left clasped tightly 

 arotmd the bar between the legs of the operator, while the ear is drawn up- 

 ward by the right hand, the fingers of the left holding it firmly against the 

 bar, and shghtly pushing it upward. Shell two thirds of the small end first, 

 then turn and shell the butt. Two bushels of our small com can be easily 

 shelled in an hour, after getting a little accustomed to the manipulatioa. I 



have tried many other 

 ways, but maoa have 

 proved at once so easy 

 and so rapid as this. We 

 fe^ ^ I present a sketch of the 



box and bar. 



rtXM. TOOL BOOSE. 



COKS-SHELXXE. 



A Good 'Weeding Im- 

 plement. — We give a 

 sketch of an excellent 



weeding implement which is valued very highly by those who have used it 

 It saves at least the wages of three men. By actual experiment one man 

 will do more weeding with it in the same time, and do it better, than four 

 men with hoes. The implement costs about three dollars — not more, cer- 

 tainly — and will save fifty dollars worth of labor during one season. The 

 frame is eighteen inches long and twelve inches wide. It is light, made of 

 two or two and a half inch material. The wheel is ten inches in diameter, 

 of inch and a half or two inch plank, with a tire of sheet iron. The knife in 

 the rear is a bar of steel two inches wide and a quarter of an inch thick, b«nt 



