FARM IMPLEMENTS. 



251 



the tenon. Fasten to the plank, on a line below the mortise, one grub hook 

 two and a half feet from the mortise, on each side of said mortise, to hitch 

 to the chains on the pole. Unhook tbe chains, and your scraper is in two 

 pieces, handy to pack away under cover. Estimated cost: 



Pole, 25c'; plank, 25c.; old saw, $1.00; making woodwork, 50c.; chains 

 and iron work, f 1.50. Total, 



$3.50. 



Set your scraper at the 

 right angle'to carry the gravel 

 or earth toward the center of 

 the road, and drive on at a 

 good brisk walk, the driver 

 to ride or place on weights 

 when necessary. K the road 

 is very mtty or uneven, it ia 

 better to change the angle 

 and drive back on saiAe side, 

 as the scraper would cross its 

 own angle going back, and 

 still carry the earth toward 

 the center of the roifd. 



A Clod Crusher. — We 



illustrate a very cheap, aim- 

 pie, but eflScient implement 

 — first made and used, we 

 beheve, in E n g 1 a u d — for 

 breaking lumps of earth on 

 plowed fields and leaving 

 the surface smooth and finely pulverized. It is a very good substitute for 

 the roller to smooth the surface of the field and cover grass seed sown after 

 spring rains. It is made in this wise: Lay two oak scantlings, 3x3 inches 

 square and three and one half feet long, parallel on the shop floor, three feet 

 apart. Then spike a strip 2x2 and five feet long across two ends of the scant- 

 ling; then four two-inch planks tigjit inches wide and five feet long, spiking 



them on like clap-boarding, and 

 finish with a plank fourteen inches 

 wide for the front. Turn your 

 crusher over, affix a stool for the 

 driver and the chains to the cross- 

 pieces for the team to draw by, and 

 the implement is completed. 



Improvement of Roadji. — A 

 Good Scraper. — We would like 

 to call the attention of all lovers of 

 good roads, and especially of those who are overseers, to the importance of 

 some system in constructing and repairing public highways. 



In the first place, all roads should be made and kept rounding. The 

 ditches at the side should be deep, and of such a grade that the water may 

 quickly run off. A road constructed in this manner may be kept rounding 

 for a number of years by the frequent use of the large A scraper, drawn by 

 four horses abreast. Perhaps this important road implement in some dis- 



THOM.\S JfO-PATEST 8CR.U»EB, 



CLOD CBTTSHEB. 



