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and measures, a railway churn if milk is 

 sent away, a milk barrow with a delivery 

 churn if it is retailed, and a pony and cart 

 where such are required to deliver a large 

 quantity of milk. Where the milk is sold 

 wholesale a refrigerator or milk cooler will 

 be required, a weighing machine to v,eigh the 

 milk from each cow, chains to tether the cows 

 to the stalls, a feeding skip, a machine for 

 breaking cake, a root-pulper, a chaff-cutting 

 machine, a wheel-barrow for the removal of 

 the manure, a liquid manure tank for the 

 conveyance of the liquid to the fields, pig 

 troughs, bins for the protection of grain, 

 cake and meal both for cows and pigs, a 

 hay-knife for cutting the hay from the stack, 

 and such hand-tools as are essential for the 

 various purposes which are common on the 

 farm and in the garden. In some instances 

 where the small holder is skilled in the breed- 

 ing and feeding of poultry he may find it to 

 his advantage to buy an incubator, together 

 with a brooder or rearer, that he may be better 

 enabled to hatch and rear chickens in the 

 winter season when sitting hens are difTieult 

 to buy. 



Although we have made the above sugges- 

 tions it is obvious that each man will prepare 



