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easy to put in posts and have wire fences. 

 The farmer could then have put his 

 profits into the banks instead of his 

 straight stone fences. The Enstrom 

 hole-digging machine has a digging or 

 cutting blade fitted on the lower end of 

 a spindle which is driven by 

 various gears from a gas- 

 engine. 



The machine also has an 

 endless conveyor-belt with 

 spaces which are constantly 

 carrying up the earth dug by 

 the cutting blade and depos- 

 iting it in a chute which 

 throws it to one side of the 

 machine. This belt, of course, 

 is also operated by the power 

 from the gas-engine. 



The machine is mounted 

 on a truck which can be 

 pulled around wherever the 

 gardener or farmer wants to 

 use it. In fact, the machine 



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up and arranged for use wherever de- 

 sired for constructing and repairing 

 wire fences. 



The various strands of the wire fence 

 are held between a pair of bars which are 

 clamped together on opposite sides of the 



The newest fruit picker is a roller which 

 lifts the fruit up from the ground after 

 it has fallen from the tree 



does the work of fifteen men. It digs a 

 hole ten inches wide and over two feet 

 deep in a minute and a half. When 

 there are interfering obstructions it 

 takes a trifle longer. The machine can 

 be so adjusted as to make the hole any 

 width desired. 



Stretching the Wire Taut 



WHEN the holes are dug and the 

 fence posts put in, the next prob- 

 lem is stretching the wire for the fences. 

 C. N. Edwards, of Hillsboro, Ohio, has 

 devised a new wire-stretcher, which is 

 light and portable. It can be readily set 



A new wire-stretcher which pulls the whole 

 of a web fence by one hand-operated gear 



fence-wires. A chain fastens these bars 

 to the traveler-block of the wire-stretch- 

 ing machine. This traveler-block is 

 screw-threaded and operated on a screw- 

 shaft, which carries a small gear. These 

 gears mesh with a large gear turned by a 

 double crank in the hands of the farmer 

 or gardener. The gears are supported 

 by a two-legged frame which gets further 

 support from a long guide rod which 

 rests against the last fence post. 



For Gathering Fallen Fruit 



A CALIFORNIA fruit grower, Peter 

 H. Lint of Los Gatos, has devised 

 a machine for rapidly gathering up fruit 

 which has fallen to the ground. A large 

 roller with prongs projecting from it 

 picks up the fruit and transfers it to 

 the box carried by the rack. The ma- 

 chine is pushed along as if it were a huge 

 lawn-mower. It is particularly useful in 

 gathering fruit which has to be evapo- 

 rated, such as prunes and apricots, and 

 which will not be damaged by being 

 pricked as a result of the novel method 



