The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
More About Mending the Harness 
While T never learned the trade. I do 
all niy own harness repairing, and find 
it very easy and a great saving in ex¬ 
pense. and nothing hut. what anyone can 
do. I have usually used old straps for 
this work, hut ns I have them all used 
up, am now trying new leather. T bought 
a hack of No. 1 harness leather, weighing 
1 V-i lbs., at 70c, costing $9.45. For con¬ 
venience in cutting, I borrowed a gauge 
knife from a neighbor, and cut the side 
all up. I got a pair of 1%-in. 20-ft. lines 
that would cost at retail $10; a pair of 
pole straps l 1 '. in., *4 ft., worth $2.50, 
and all the side straps, hip strap and 
quarter straps for a heavy breeching har¬ 
ness, and have left leather for hanie straps 
and other repairs to a retail value of $5. 
For martingales and breast straps, will 
use old tugs, cut right length, and clip 
rings and snaps oil, and will have prac¬ 
tically a new harness at an expense of 
about $10. 
“Subscriber” asks liow to “sew long 
tucks." I don’t know what is meant by 
that, but suppose he means box loops. 
These are machine-made, and not sewed 
at all, but are put together with double- 
pointed tacks. Evidently they use a long 
iron, the size of loop, then drive tacks 
in and clinch inside of loop. For tools. I 
use four or five-strand wax thread, 
straight needles, sewing awl, pocket 
knife, common pliers, No. 12 copper rivets, 
hammer, and bench vise. Vise is used for 
a stitching horse, pliers to pull needle 
when it slicks, and I always rivet both 
ends of a sewed lap to prevent ripping 
later. 
I have never had use for bristles and 
crooked awl, and don’t know of any place 
to use them, except in mending collars. 
Bristles are split at. one end and twisted 
onto the end of waxed thread, use crooked 
awl. starting on one side of rip, follow 
crook of awl. and it will come out on 
other side; then use double thread, same 
as with needles. Push bristles from each 
side and draw up tight, never over-stitch. 
To simplify the work and make what I 
call a better harness, I do away with all 
“buckles and billets,” and use Conway 
loons instead. This saves a lot of work 
and makes a neater job. Take a look at 
your harness, observe bow it is stitched, 
how the ends of straps are thinned down 
before sewing, then try it yourself. If 
not able to do a satisfactory job. take a 
line that needs sewing, go to the repair 
slum and get it sewed, and take notice 
how the work is done. You can learn 
very easily that way. This may be called 
stealing a trade, but you are paying for 
tile work, and have a perfect right to ob¬ 
serve how it is done. A farmer must 
have about a dozen trades, and that is the 
way I learned mine—by observation and 
practice. l. f. gibbon. 
Ohio. 
Kudzu in North Carolina 
I notice in W. F. Massey’s “Notes from 
a Maryland Garden" that many people 
ask him for kudzu roots. If any of 
those people could and would be so kind 
as to dig up all those r have on my place, 
I would be eternally grateful. Several 
years ago, when I knew no better, I 
planted that vine as an ornamental; have 
regretted it ever since. It has done its 
best to kill everything else I have, and I 
spend weary hours cutting it out of small 
trees, bushes, and other vines. Unfortu¬ 
nately, I am not here in Summer, so all 
the attention the place gets j.s in early 
Spring—February and March. East Sum¬ 
mer 1 gave the use of my garden to a 
neighbor in the fond hope that lie would 
help eradicate the kudzu. It did help, and 
another Summer’s work will help more. 
If. when the garden is spaded up next 
Winter, anyone wants those detested 
roots, they are more than welcome. In 
this favored climate, "toe a hardy plant 
gets a good start, practically no amount 
of neglect will discourage it; that is. if it 
likes living South at all, some things just 
flatly refuse to do so. c. m. bell. 
It. N.-Y,— But the same would be true 
of Alfalfa or clover if they grew in your 
garden. You would kill them, though on 
a dairyman’s farm they would prove a 
blessing. Tf kudzu will go Into a back 
pasture field and kill out quack grass and 
weeds, it will prove a benefactor. We 
have always warned against planting it 
near the house and garden. Its place is 
on the hills or hack fields, where land is 
now lying idle. We presume that, in 
spite of all we can say, some of our read¬ 
ers will plant the roots in the garden and 
then blame us because the kudzu drives 
them out. 
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