Mr. PUUiBft dissented wholly. They are at¬ 
tracted by fresh manure wherever deposited, 
but are not. dropped by animals with it. 
Dried Apple*, dried by steam in ninety min¬ 
utes, and pronounced excellent by the Com¬ 
mander of the Club, were exhibited as having 
been received from the inventor of the process 
in Hillsdale, Mich. 
How io Destroy Currant worms— 0. J. Sla¬ 
ter, Deposit, N. Y„ asks how to do this, and Is 
told by a dozen to sift on the bushes when the 
dew is on, powdered white hellebore. 
t’uiineil Moat from Texas.—J. A. RICHARD¬ 
SON, Houston, Texas, exhibited a can of meat 
put up in Texas by a new process, Invented by 
A.S. Lyman, New York city. Mr. Richardson 
said “Thn central idea ol’ Mr. Lyman, in all 
Ids plans for the transport of fresh monte is this: 
Ho believes that decay even begins as soon as 
the mil mill dlots, and Is greatly hastened by the 
waste that Is always going on in the system the 
waste that Is consistent with perfect health,and 
which death arrests. This ho calls the normal 
waste, and says the first thing to be done with a 
earenss is to get rid of this waste. He does It l*y 
placing the tlosh in an exhausted receiver, when 
the air that was hold in the little cells comes out¬ 
ward, driving the normal waste before it. This 
first, process over, moats may bo preserved by 
keeping them at the temperature of thirty-nine 
degrees or lower, by the use of certain gases, as 
the carbonic, or by the. application of heat. Wo 
propose to forward meat from Texas and other 
grazing countries by using the two latter meth¬ 
ods, and to some extent the former method— (. 
e , by cold. In I hose cans, closely sealed, we put 
the llesli of a bullock that will dress six hundred, 
lie costs ns about $13, and we reduce ilio bulk 
of Ins clear tlosh from six hundred to two hun¬ 
dred pounds by our method of cooking. This is 
a sort of beef a la mode, and in this state can bo 
taken around the world. All the nutrition in 
the animal is hero concentrated and preserved 
in a condensed mnl wholesome and quite pala¬ 
table form. A good cook will prepare and com¬ 
bine it for the table in various appetizing forms. 
Remedy for Hcrntchc" on Home*. — David 
Johnson, Granville, Pa., uses equal parte of cas¬ 
tor oil and camphor gum, dissolved. Ho suc¬ 
ceeds in curing scratches. 
Barley In Nevada.—L. M. HAGER, Mill City, 
Nevada, writes that barley Is the stable food for 
horses and rnulos thcro; that it Is fed whole, 
soaked, boiled mid ground, and is claimed by 
those who have used It to bo better for a horse 
than any other grain. Ho adds: 
“When our barley Is cut it is left in bunches 
ns it eomoa from tlm machine, or if cut by hand 
it is bunched tho same ns if for binding. When 
III to haul, a large wooden fork Is used to pot if 
on titan wagon. Three years ago I had barley 
that was estimated to yield one hundred bushels 
per acre. My whole crop of forty acres yielded 
more than forty bushels nor aero, and ten acres 
was down so bad l hat. it did not more limn halt 
fill. I do not agree with A. W. Thomas of Troy, 
Pa., as to the amount of send to sow. I smv from 
eighty i" one hundred and twenty pounds per 
acre, regulating the amount of seed to tho time 
of sowing and tlm ipmlit.y of soil. On rich, 
moist, soil, a small amount of seed will answer, 
partioulnrly If sowed early. On dry, light soil, I 
have never been able to sow too much seed; in 
fact, 1 have always thought that more seed 
would have been an advantage to my poor soil, 
and 1 have eoucluded to put. in more seed on 
light, poor soil, every year, and shall continue 
to lnureaso the amount until satisfied." 
Hanford Corn.—OuvM 8. Rhown, South Hart¬ 
ford, N. Y., writes that she planted some of this 
corn, which grew luxuriantly until tho first, 
week in October, when It. was cut; that it boro 
splendid large ears, but not one matured; it was 
a total failure. F. J. BuiiMauss, Rood's Landing, 
Mi nil,, writes that it does not ripen as early, nor 
yield as well as tho common Dent corn. It scat¬ 
ters too much for a Held crop, t hrowing iip from 
three to six shoots to a stalk, although some of 
the suckers boar a fair oar of coru. The plant¬ 
ing should be quite thin, not over two stalks to 
a hill. I think It will be an excellent kind to 
drill In for fodder, as it makesa splendid growth 
of stalks. The corn Is a very hard Hint variety, 
and not tit to feed unless ground, which trouble 
very few Western farmers will take. I have 
tried a great many kinds of Hint corns during 
the last ten tears, but have never found any to 
equal our Western Dent varieties, therefore 
would not advise Western farmers to invest 
much money in Eastern seed corns. 
Three florae* Abreast. — .1 ames Thompson, 
llallston Spa, N. Y., sends tho Club the following 
concerning his mode of hitching three horses 
abreast, which, with tho drawings, were handed 
the Rural New-Yorker for Illustration and 
publication. Wo give engravings and explana¬ 
tion precisely as they conic to us: 
on the front side; a whiillolree hook at a, with 
two rivets; band iron strap of \% inches in width 
at C, with l rivets; coupling pole at b, with two 
rivets, <1, In No. 3 is3 inches from front side; 
fo, is iVj Inches from front, if any washers aro 
necessary, the maker cun put. on what, he thinks 
proper. I have a block of wood nailed on (tie 
leftside of Ihe pole, for the draft bolt of No. 3 to 
rest, against; Illinois held In place by four nails; 
it, has never been oil. Spread your horses at 
least two foot, apart. In No. 3,n Is Clinches from 
i'; b. Is la inches. In No. 3, rt, <r, are a feat lb 
inches apart,. The (looks are riveted, having a 
little washer on t ho under side. I should not 
recommend making t he three-horse, or even any 
of tho w hi tile trees, longer, as they would lie in 
the way on bridges, ice,; and the horses crowd 
together of toner when they walk at a disadvan¬ 
tage from loo short whltlletroes.” 
Ml** MiirweilcpM Horticultural School at, Brent¬ 
wood, L. I., had been visited by Mr. Todd, who 
wrote the Club commending its location, tho 
soil, climate, Arc. [In this connection. It is prop¬ 
er to say that Miss Maiiwkdel informs us that 
notwithstanding the words of encouragement 
she received from women, to start a horticultu¬ 
ral school for her sox, not ono of them has sent 
her any plants In response to her appeal there¬ 
for.- Ei>8- Rural. 
A Demand for Girl*. JonN M. Jordan, Troy, 
Pa., writes the Club that there Isa great, scarcity 
of good girls to do housework In his neighbor¬ 
hood, and that those who may go there will bo 
sore of a good living, good wages, and time to 
make their own clothes- Wages ware stated to 
lie $1 to $3 per week. The Commander thought 
tho demand for girls at such wages would bo 
likely to continue. 
Halt, fur Tomatoes.— F. Coped and, West Ded¬ 
ham, Mass., writes:-'* Last season I had about a 
quarter-aero of ground so tilled with sorrel that 
1 thought nothing could be done with it. I 
broadcasted very liberally suit and lime, ns near 
as 1 could judge, without actual measure, two 
parts 11 ulo to ono of salt. This I plowed In. On 
this land I planted early cabbage and tomatoes, 
of course using munuro liberally, and It Ih the 
first season for eight years that I have had any 
really good tomatoes. The vines were very pro¬ 
lific, and the fruit large aigl exceedingly fair. I 
shall follow the same, plan with nty tomatoes 
this year. I would also say that the crop of sor¬ 
rel was completely killed out. f have used Lime 
and salt on a mowing field to exterminate sorrel 
Willi perfect success." 
Dr. TntMiiDEKuid this experiment was another, 
of a largo class, which proves nothing. Salt 
probably had nothing to do with corroding the 
acidity of the land, Tlio question ih watt it the 
Iliac or the salt, which benefited the crop? It 
may btivo been both wore needed, but the ex¬ 
periment does not provo it. Ho should havo 
tried each separately as well as both together. 
Mr. Fuller thought In the instance named both 
were of use. 
To Keep Lice from Cabbage. Eliza Mann, 
Wheatland, N. Y., writes:—"Make your seed- 
lied where the moruiinj sunshine will not fall 
upon It. Tho west side of a building is not a 
good place, as the shade lies too long, ami l ho 
plants will grow crooked. Put up some tempo¬ 
rary shelter that will keep tho sun oil' till about 
nine A. M., and if your seed-bed is well made, 
and your seed good, you will have fine healthy 
plants, and uo trouble from lice. 1 cannot tell 
why this is so, but I have tried it more thanonco 
with complete success." 
Large v*. Small Potatoes for Seed,' I, W. 
OniGUS, Maoodon, N. Y., writes concerning Mr. 
Ohkei.ky’r estimate of the relative value of 
small and large potatoes for seed, and that ono 
reason why small potatoes are. not as good as 
largo fur seed is because they have not got their 
growth —are not ripe, as follows: “By this 
theory a, potato tho size of a pea could not he 
expected to produce large potatoes, but facts 
arc widely at variance with theory. In the 
spring of teOfi I paid $3 per pound for Early 
Rose potabice, and produced a full barrel from 
each pound of seed. They were all small pota¬ 
toes—none larger than a small hen’s egg, and out 
to single eyes us near as could be. Some of the 
pieces were not larger than a grain of wheat, 
yet the product was very satisfactory as to sizo 
and quantity. On the ground where those grow 
there sprang up In the spring of l«tw plants of 
this variety, which wore removed and trans¬ 
planted, with the potatoes attached. These po¬ 
tatoes were of tho size of a marrow fat. pea to a 
filbert, nemo larger -and yet, the product wusas 
large, as symmetrical and us good us from our 
other plantings of the same variety. Hence tho 
theory of small potatoes producing small, and 
large, largo, Is uot supported by facte. This sub¬ 
ject is not exhausted by a great deal, and fann¬ 
ers should compare notes, accompanied with 
facts. Tho best way of doing this is through 
tho reports of your Club.” Mr. Fodder said a 
singlo experiment decided nothing; lint let him 
pursue tho same practice for a series of years, 
and ho may find that Mr. Gueedey's theory is 
not so far from correct as he scorns to think 
facts show. 
gall frir Horse Kudinh. C. JONES, Comer, O., 
writes that ho haft found suit, or brine au excel¬ 
lent dressing for horse radish plants. 
Artichoke" Wauled.— Mr. Jones asked where 
he can got artichokes to plant. No one replied. 
aritmer 
ortnillnrf 
isrnsstons 
GERANIUMS 
AMERICAN INST. FARMERS’ CLUB 
CUCUMBERS FOR PICKLES. 
During tho past few years the class of 
of Geraniums has got so divided and yet 
mixed up, under names of Zondalc, Nosegay, 
Tricolor, etc., that it will almost “ puzzle a 
Philadelphia lawyer,” to say nothing of a 
novice in Geranium culture, to distinguish 
the one from tlm other, until told that the old 
Horse Shoe Geranium, well know wherever 
the Geranium has ever been cultivated, is 
the grand type, and “ pater fami fit is " of all 
the Zondales; that the Nosegay is distinct 
from the Tricolor in its leaves,—having only 
two shades of color, while the Tricolor has 
three— and also in its flowers, being sweetly 
perfumed, thus making it, all iu all,connect¬ 
ing brilliancy and beauty of bloom with 
fragrance, ono of the most desirable of its 
class. 
The Zondalo, however, with its distinetzone 
markings, fills up an item of incongruity, 
which is yearly drawing more and more of 
appreciative admiration, while the old sorts 
of rose-scented, applo-sceuled, etc., will al¬ 
ways hold sway and favor with all lovers of 
the Geranium family. 
Golden Veined-Tien veil Geranium, or Gcr- 
n n IM in R et ic ii I a t ii in. 
This Is one of the novelties to be intro¬ 
duced the coming season, and is said to he 
of superior beauty iu its compact, trusses of 
bloom as well as its foliage of golden veins 
or ribs, as shown in our drawing of a leaf 
we took from a plant in the green-house of 
John Saul, Washington, D, €. Wo have 
never seen its bloom, hut the golden netting 
or marbling: of its leaves was new to us, as 
well as beautifully distinct. As a house or 
pot plant, it is an acquisition, being, beside 
its distinctness, compact, dwarf, or rather 
bushy in habit. For oat-door bedding it is 
a question yet, of trial as to how it will re¬ 
tain its character under the blaze of sun and 
sudden changes of temperature that belong 
to our country. 
Notes of Discussions, Extracts from Let 
ters, &c. 
Annually many acres arc planted to 
furnish cucumber pickles for tho table. 
Hundred of acres are devoted to growing 
small cucumbers that find a ready market at 
the houses engaged in putting up pickles and 
other condiments for tho trade. The best 
soil for cucumbers is a rich loam, thoroughly 
worked, into which is incorporated well dc- 
con^osed manure, and when the soil cannot 
be made rich enough, or manure is not 
abundant, growers content themselves with 
making only the hills rich by a half harrow, 
at least, of manure worked into them and 
covered with a few inches of soil. The hills 
should be worked rather below than above 
the general level of the soil that they may bo 
Sure Cure for Bench Borer.—A correspondent, 
who did not know that he was not. recommend¬ 
ing anything new, hud made a discovery In Lou¬ 
isiana, thiit tansy, or wormwood growing about 
peach trees, kept off tho borer. 
Is the Crow a Vandal or Not l—I ra BREWER, 
Binghampton, N. Y., writes:—" I have long no¬ 
ticed tho habits of tho srow, the bird that, no 
peraon ever knew to do nny damage except to 
poll up a few hills of coru. I own 1 have boon 
vexed with him, Tor after trying every expe¬ 
dient. to trighton him, he would return and have 
his frugal meal. Noticing that it. was only his 
breakfast he required, t scattered some corn on 
the very spot that he always visited, and lie uni¬ 
formly returned each morning and ate his sup¬ 
ply; and it was worth all tt cost to Hear him 
Jaugli and "Ha, hoi" 
over it; but lie never 
puUed any more corn 
but seemed content 
UflPfc. with Ids frugal meal. 
After that I tried mu 
other remedy, and 
BB « I 1 U fjjfound this Rulficient. 
MKk Whenwetake intocon- 
wo can well afford the 
Wmf little trifle that he calls 
for; ho is, indeed, the 
only bird that braves 
the tempests of our 
Northern winters, and 
IL his familiar habits 
about our farm-yards, 
V^KSi when the thermometer 
A m stands at zero, makes 
Vj|i him au object of in- 
terest; but this bird is 
1/7 becoming scarce, and 
I' if his destruction is 
GODDEN V1UN-LEAVEI) GEUANIUM OR GERANIUM UETICULATUM. Continued, is likely 
soon to become ex¬ 
tinct, like the downy woodpecker. ” Dr. 
Tbimdle saidThat is a first-rate letter. Farm¬ 
ers who feed coru to crows to protect their crop 
should soak it until it becomes as that the crow 
can pull from tho ground, before scattering it. 
The crow is after more than Its breakfast Is 
and the food 
the better supplied with moisture. During 
Juno into July is the preferable time of 
planting for pickles. The soil of the hill 
should be made line, and for field culture 
the hills should be not less than six feet 
apart, each way, to give ample room for the 
vines, and to prevent their being trodden up¬ 
on and injured while gathering the crop. 
It. is good economy to use plenty of seed, 
to provide for any destruction of plants by 
insect enemies, of which the yellow striped 
bug is the most formidable. We usually 
plant a dozen, seeds, though four or five 
healthy plants to a hill are all that need be 
preserved. Tobacco dust, soot, powdered 
charcoal, piaster, and many other things 
have been used to prevent the ravages of the 
bugs, with varying success. Several reme¬ 
dies have been published in the present vol¬ 
ume of the Rural New-Yorker, and need 
not be repeated. Constant care and exami¬ 
nation of the young plants will he required 
for their safety. When the lulls arc estab¬ 
lished, the field should receive good, clean 
culture, keeping the aoil about the plants 
loose and fresh, and the whole free from 
grass and weeds. If the weal her proves dry, 
a gentle watering tit evening will he valua¬ 
ble, after which the ground should bestirred 
agaiu within a day or two, to prevent its 
getting baked and hard. The vines may he 
allowed to nearly cover the ground, and 
those which run too far, clipped at the ends. 
Some cultivators practice clipping to induce 
laterals and increase the fruiting. 
Picking should commence as soon as the 
cucumbers are of sullieient size, and while 
yet small, as the smaller cucumbers meet 
with n, more ready sale. The whole field 
should be regularly picked at least every 
two days by careful hands, cutting oil’ the 
fruit with a sharp knife or shears, with the 
least possible disturbance of the vines. No 
cucumbers should be allowed to get large or 
go to seed, as every occurrence of this kind 
retards the fruiting. Seed should be grown 
upon a few hills devoted to that purpose, 
though most growers prefer buying seed 
each year as cheaper than devoting tho 
pickle patch to that use. 
The varieties in general use are Early 
Frame, Early Green Cluster, Long Green 
and Early White Spined. Many successful 
growers plant, a mixture of the "whole or of 
two or three only. The best, success within 
our knowledge has been from the White 
Spined, separate. It is quick growing, 
straight, uniform and thin skinned, differing 
from the others in having white beards or 
spines in place of black, whence its name. 
The Long Green is not an abundant crop¬ 
per, and is marked l»y a long smooth part, at 
the stem, which is tough, and often very bit¬ 
ter. Early Frame is usually very full of 
seeds, and not as good as the Cluster, which 
grows uniformly short and small, though 
often bad shaped. 
With a good soil, fair market, and careful 
picking, so as to prolong the season, pickles 
are a paying crop, We have known as high 
as six hundred dollars marketed from two 
acres iu a single year, and other years, with 
equally good prices, not more than half that 
amount. Experienced gardeners prefer seed 
two or more years old, which they claim 
make less vine and lVuit better. For frames 
for early forcing, they often carry the seeds 
in the vest pocket for weeks before planting, 
to get them well seasoned as they say. If 
well saved, seed of the cucumber preserve 
their vitality many years. 
FLORAL NOTES AND EXTRACTS 
"New" Tilings, Old. 
“Atad” writes us:—“I notice ‘Addi,’ 
one of your correspondents, and perhaps 
smart iu his way, has been and gone and 
noted a double - flowering Philadelphia 
(which is but a variety of Syringa,) as a new 
thing under name of Kettlerii! bah 1 Its an 
old thing, and the men who put it in their 
catalogue probably knew it, while ‘Addi,’ 
who is generally pretty sharp, did not hunt 
it up. The same concern sent out cata¬ 
logued Maclcydia Tfddotimm as a new thing; 
but that is only Bocconia cordata. Such 
dealers ought to have their names told out, 
and if they put another old thing in as new, 
next year, it shall he done.” 
after a broakfast for its young 
furnished must bo iu condition for tho young 
crows to digest. 
Mr. Heads said it is turn,that crowB will pull 
corn rather than pick up the hard corn strewed 
about the field. Twine stretched about and 
across a Held, and an efllgy In tho center of the 
field are employed by Now England farmers to 
scare crows. Mr. CURTIS said Northern Now 
York farmers roll their seed corn iu tar and dry 
it with plaster before planting, and the crow 
does not disturb it. Mr. Fuller asked, “Why 
don’t you feed them?" Mr. Curtis— " We had 
rather they would forage lor themselves.” Ful¬ 
ler—" That'S it! Farmers arc too stingy to feed 
Crows which do them vastly more good than 
harm." Curtis—" l do not believe iu frighten¬ 
ing crows. Rather they ought to he encouraged 
to visit the core Helds. They certainly save more 
corn every year by their destruction of grubs 
than they destroy in a quarter of a century. 
And yet there Ih great. Ignorance among farmers 
on this subject. Why, a good old deacon, re¬ 
markable for his piety, once boasted to mo that 
ho had fixed tho crows that visited his cornfield. 
I asked him how ho did It. Ho said he soaked 
corn in strychnine and scattered It over the 
field, and ho found a dozen dead crows the next 
morning. I was horrified, and told him so; in¬ 
deed, I talked to him like a father and a Chris¬ 
tian. And yet the good old man did not. seem to 
comprehend that tt. was a wicked and cruel act 
to thus wantonly slaughter Gun’s creatures." 
[Sensation.J 
"Overhauling a Wire," R. M. FlUxCIS, Fort 
Scott, Kan., writes:—" I consider that a farm, a 
few hundred dollars, and a wite, (I mean one in 
earnest—none of your shams,j are all a young 
man needs to go at farming, and, if ho will leave 
whisky, tobacco, and rowdyism alone, and his 
wife be willing to live without a piano, and let 
the fashions go, like the good Quakers do, why 
they will bo independent, if not rich, in ten 
years. I have the farm and a very few of tho 
dollars needed; tho wife I have not, still I live 
in hopes that, through a well-directed chain of 
Providence, I may be permitted to overhaul her 
somewhere on life's stormy ocean." 
The Fly on A*|>nrngu*.—Mr. WILLIAMS said the 
fly is destroying asparagus hereabouts, and that 
the most effective remedy yet discovered is a 
flock of chickens among it. The Committee 
who tested Conover's Colossal, spoke In very 
high terms of its crispness, notwithstanding its 
great size, and its good flavor also. The Edltoi’s 
of tho Rural New-Yorker can bear testimony 
in favor of its excellent eating qualities also. 
The fact that city restaurant* are eager to gnt.it. 
at $1 and $1.60 per bunch, us we are informed 
(hey are, is a pretty good Indication that it is of 
good quality as an edible. Mr. Fuller said the 
aspargua fly could bo killed with lime. 
Orchard Grn*« lor Posture.— Mr. CURTIS ex¬ 
hibited specimen stools of orchard grass and 
timothy taken front the same field and grown 
from seed sown at the same time. The orchard 
grass was twice the height of tho timothy. Mr. 
Curtis commends orchard grass for permanent 
pasture as superior to any ot her grass he knows 
of. He would not mix it with other grasses for 
meadow l But it will uuswer well with clover. 
—Eds. Rural.]— but thinks it should hold a 
prominent place in a mixture for pasture. Cattle 
and horses prefer it to timothy in tho pasture. 
4 ut-\Vorm»-How to Prevent their Ravage*.— 
Mrs. John Lee, Springfield, Mo., asked how to 
prevent the ravages of out-worms. Mr, Ctfims 
replied. Never plant corn on the sod of an old 
pasture. Cut-worms are taken to the field Iu 
tho droppings of animals, and infest Old pastures 
because animal excrement is deposited there. 
To Keep off the Rose (Slug. 
A correspondent of the Rural New- 
Yorker writes:—“ The slug, or worm, that 
appears on rose leaves from time to time in 
summer, may easily be kept in check by 
picking the leaf and destroying the worm. 
It is a small care daily, to look over a bed of 
twenty or thirty roses, which i3 about as 
mauy as the majority of private familes have, 
and pick the leaves. Those who have large 
numbers of roses are, however, oft en obliged 
to resort to syringing with strong soap-suds, 
in which a little flour of sulphur has been 
mixed. Strong tobacco water is also good, 
and afterward dust with flour of sulphur. 
Treatment of PcouIum, 
E., in response to Mrs. 8. R. Hanford’s 
inquiry in Rural New-Yorker, May 14th, 
page 316, writes:—“I take it. your peonias 
are herbaceous. Your soil being sandy and 
light, deep and rich, you get too much and 
too late growth for the production of flowers. 
All you have to do is to take up your plants 
every October or November, and replant. 
Even if in the same place, all right. You 
will thus get abundance of bloom.” 
Non-Blooming Fuchsias. 
H. P. S. writes:—“ I have five different 
kinds of fuchsias that have had extreme care 
for seven months, and still I get no blossoms. 
What is the remedy?” Perhaps the care 
has been too extreme, and the plants have 
been making wood too fast to develope flow¬ 
er-buds. 
Suckers of Roses. 
Those who have roses budded or grafted 
on the nianetti, or some other wild stock, 
should watch carefully at this season of the 
year and cut away the sucker sprouts from 
the wild root, or they will soon be scolding 
the nurseryman for an error, which is only 
the result of their own neglect. 
Gcrnnliiin I,eaves. 
It is not generally known that the leaves 
of the geranium are an excellent application 
for cute, where the skin is rubbed off, and 
other wounds of that kind. One or two 
leaves must be bruised and applied to the 
part, and the cut will be cicatrized in a very 
'N?2 
"No. 1 represents a hook with fulling link, to 
hold singlo whlttietrees; there are threoof them 
at a, a, a. No. 3 is the three-horse evener, to 
which is coupled the two-horse evener at II, by 
the bolt in No. 4. The half-circle of No. 4 goes 
hehlnd the evener and holds them level for the 
draft. No. 3 is the two-horse evener —IS being a 
strip of lM-lnc.h hand iron, bent to hold the 
coupling bolt in No. 4, and held in place by lour 
rivets, M-lncb. The wood is of ash, I.q inches 
UHelcftinl iX iueiies wide,3 feet 3 inches long; 
whiflietreo hooka are placed at <», a, 3 inches 
from the end and 3,'tf inches from the front aide 
of the evener. I have two rivets at tt, a, at each 
end. No. ft is an iron to take the drul’t to tho left 
side of tho pole. Is placed on the under side and 
fastened, nt d, d, with ',,-Uieh bolts, to pole and 
hound. Tho draft bolt is of q-ineh iron, and 
very fiat bead, runs through t he hummer strap, 
then through No. 3 ut C, and No. 6 at the upper 
hole, and is held iu place with a nut and spring 
key, so that there shall he no danger or the bolt 
Helling out, uJI.I m nigh I have pulled ono in two, 
and also havo pulled my main evener in two at 
C, twice. (I think 1 had ail tho atreugtli i)f my 
tmeses then, certainly.) No. 3 is of ash, 4 foot 4 
inches, long, 4 inches at one end ami 5# inches 
at the other, in width, Ijrf inches thick, straight 
