The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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Notes from a Harness Maker 
r notice on page 48 ,T. C. wants some 
information on haruess-tnakidg and re¬ 
pairing. especially repairing. It would 
be lolly for anyone to try to make a new 
set of harness without first having worked 
at tin; trade. This is rather a hard mat¬ 
ter to explain through correspondence. 
However, I will do the best I can. 
First, he must learu to make a good 
wa v end, and to do this lie must have the 
right kind of material. He should use 
medium wax. which can he used the year 
around. Also, he must be in a warm 
room when making a wax end. or when 
using it for stitching. Otherwise the wax 
will get cold and crumble off the thread. 
Next, he must use the proper kind of 
thread, which is No. 10 for ordinary work. 
For ordinary work, use about four-ply, 
and for heavy traces and the like, use 
six-ply. 
in preparing the thread! for wax. start 
to unwind the thread from the inside of 
tile bail. Next take off lengths about 
4 or 5 ft. long: turn it enough to take 
flic twist out, and then pull apart. This 
will leave a long, tapered point on the 
thread, so that when you have four to 
six threads you can twist them together. 
After you have twisted well, apply the 
wax by rubbing over the thread, using 
plenty iff “elbow grease” or “strong-arm 
stuff. Next, use harness-makers’ needles 
of proper size. Tut end of thread through 
and twist up, and you are ready to stitch. 
In prepacing your work for stitching, 
take broken parts and skive down with 
sharp knife to a taper, lap together, put 
in several temporary tacks, pinch in 
stitching horse, and start to sew. .Tab 
hoi with awl and pull thread through 
to renter, and “go to it.” For this vou 
use straight awl. and seldom, if over, will 
,\ou find it necessary to sew with crooked 
awl. Kristies nee used by shoemakers. 
Never m my 10 years of harness-making 
did I ever use a bristle. Just what ,T. 0. 
menus about long tucks on breast collars 
and bridles. T do not know: blit. T think 
lie menus folded and layer work, which is 
done by using a tiller, or form piece, and 
then a thin strip folded over, and then 
n nor her strap stitched over the seam. 
This is used on hcllybands. breast collars, 
breechings, etc., but lately they are doing 
away with that idea, and they are using 
almost all single-strap work. 
Ohio. E. .T. BPRICGKL. 
It. N.-Y.—Several other short notes 
have been received. One reader sends us 
a sample of the way he uses bristles. 
Such work cannot well be. taught by cor¬ 
respondence. One must see the work ac¬ 
tually turned out by hand before he cau 
understand it. 
A Plan for Economizing Heat 
Here is a drawing to show you how 
i me man solved Ins heating problem. 
\\ ith wood for fuel, the beat was half 
wasted, as the pipe entered the chimney 
just above the stove in the same room. 
To heat the adjoining bedroom was hard 
work, having to keep the stove at .full 
Mast, so Mr. B. got three extra elbows and 
live lengths of stovepipe. He put one 
elbow on the stove, then two lengths of 
pipe at right angles to the stove, then 
another elbow and a length of pipe stand¬ 
ing up endwise; then another elbow and 
two more lengths of pipe going back right 
above the first two. The next elbow 
brought the next pipe above the stove, 
directly under the pipe hole in chimney. 
Result, three times the amount of heat 
with far less fuel. The stove stood in a 
corner, and with those pipes along the 
partition wall, the adjoining room was 
much better warmed, and instead of all 
having to huddle around the stove when 
tin* cold winds blew, the whole room was 
well warmed, as the pipe threw off a large 
amount of heat. clara Hamilton. 
New York. 
Farmers and local milk plants are put¬ 
ting up their supply of ice. Stock is win¬ 
tering well, although many farmers will 
he short of coarse fodder by Spring. Con¬ 
siderable grain is being fed to help out 
the hay supply, which promises to be high 
in price next Spring. Farm organizations 
arc quite active in this county, with farm 
schools and local institutes being held in 
several of the towns in the countv this 
Winter, llay. $80 a ton ; potatoes, $1 per 
Im.: eggs, t»5c; beef, dressed, native. 8 
to l'2e per lb. ; pork, native, dressed, loc 
per lb. H.T. J. 
Franklin Co.. N. Y 
