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Vol. XLVI. No. 1942. NEW YORK, APRIL 16, 1887. 
Entered, according to Act of Congress, In the year 1887, by the Rural New-Yorker, in the office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington. 
PRICK FIVE CENTS. 
*2.00 PER YEAR. 
farm (!' coaamij 
UNLOADING GRAIN. 
S’ successful fanning, every 
ounce of muscle counts. The 
brain leads the band. Work 
is thought out before it is be¬ 
gun, and every useless expen¬ 
diture of muscular force is 
dispensed with. It certainly 
will not pay to make three 
motions where one will an¬ 
swer. We know plenty of 
farmers who do not work to advantage be¬ 
cause they seem to think farm work calls for 
nothing but brute force. Their neighbors do 
the same work more easily, and in a shorter 
time, by giving their brains a chance to help. 
An idea of what we mean may be gathered 
from the pictures shown at Figs. 105-106. Iu 
the lower sketch are shown two performances 
which we have witnessed many times. The 
useless labor expended in these painful un¬ 
loadings is something to make a man with 
any idea of the economy of time, shudder. 
The labor expended will be to the weight 
lifted as the square of the time required is to 
the cubic root of the men employed. As to 
the other method, shown at Fig. 100, Mr. M. 
II. C. Gardner of Orange Co., N. Y., writes 
as follows: 
“Cue of the most tiresome jobs iu the busy 
days of thrashing is to put the grain up in the 
granary, while the machine stops for a rest. 
The bags must be emptied, and quickly, as 
time is precious and all hands have to work 
hard to feed the machine and take care of the 
straw, so that when it stops men are usually 
not in the humor to carry away 75 to 150 
bushels and empty it into bins up a pair of 
stairs The thrashers who come and thrash 
my grain, year after year, all say my way of 
hoisting wheat or other graiu “beats’em all.” 
Hack the loaded wagon to the elevator which 
rests on a platform level with the wagon, 
place the bags ou the elevator and the horse 
instantly raises it to the second floor where 
men empty the bags Into bins. It is surpris¬ 
ing how quickly 100 bushels can be unloaded 
without any straining or unnecessary lifting. 
The contrivance is simple to construct. It 
can be made with saw, hammer and nails, or 
it may be mortised together.” 
Fig. 107 shows how the elevator is made. 
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1 he dimensions are us follows: a a a .'5x 4 inch 
scantling; b b b b, 1x0 or 8 inch; c c small wood¬ 
en friction wheels to run against the side of 
building; d, inch flooring, e, screw hook; f f, 
sills, 2x4 or 0 inches. 
PROTECTION AGAINST CLIMBING INSECTS. 
A cheap arrangement for protecting vines 
and small trees from climbing insects is shown 
at Fig. 172. I have used it for some years. 
Stout paper—that used iu muking 50-pound 
flour sacks is the best wo have found for the 
purpose—is cut to the dimensions given in the 
cut. The dotted lines represent the folding, 
and the black line a slit. The paper thus cut 
is placed around the vine and fastened with a 
pin so that it will tit closely to the vine. When 
we make a business of it, which we do as soon 
as the buds begin to swell, we take a 10-pound 
grape basket, sew a pincushion ou one end, 
fill it with pins, place the papers, ready cut, in 
the other end, and start. We can put on from 
500 to 600 in a day. a friend. 
Muskegon, Mich. 
farm (Topics. 
CORRESPONDENTS’ VIEWS. 
T’was Ever Thus.—M an seems to be a 
very inconsistent being. The dairymen de¬ 
clared that bogus butter would ruin their 
business, and yet good butter stood higher in 
UNLOADING GRATN. Fig. 165. 
UNLOADING GRAIN. Fig. 166. 
relative value than any other farm product, 
unless it may lie mint. The Chicago butchers, 
as well paid as any laborers in the world, 
struck for higher wages aud took thousands 
of dollars out of Michigan farmers. One 
housewife rises at four o’clock,makes the fires, 
milks the cows, feeds the calves, gets break¬ 
fast, and then has a job to got her husband up 
at seven to eat it. It may be that in the very 
next house the husband rises at four and 
works two hours before his wife thinks of 
getting up. Some men have all the comforts 
of fife. They sit down to a tablo spread with 
luxuries and have no appetite. They pay out 
hundreds of dollars for medicine when an 
hour’s exercise everyday with a buck-saw 
would cure them. The next neighbor may 
have to work from daylight to dark in order 
to get the plainest food, yet he is healthy and 
has a keen appetite. One woman works hard 
and economizes in every way, with an easy, 
shiftless husband to eat up all she can save or 
earn. Another woman spends every cent she 
can get for dress and idles her time spinning 
street yarns, while her husband works hard 
and economizes all he can. So the world 
goes. We could pick out combinations that 
would be successful, if we could only look 
ahead as well as we can look behind. 
Calhoun Co., Mich. j. mclean. 
A Grange Against the Seed Bureau.— 
The following resolutions were passed unani¬ 
mously at the last meeting of Magee’s Cor¬ 
ners’ Grange, No. lfi'J. k. story, Secretary. 
Whereas: Under thy laws of the Govern¬ 
ment of the United States the Agricultural 
Department was instituted for the benefit of 
the agriculturists in said Government: aud 
whereas the Commissioner of said Department 
was made the custodian of the people’s money, 
with authority to purchase seed for distribu¬ 
tion among the farmers of the nation; and 
whereas, after careful examination of the 
ways and means pursued by the Department 
under the controlling influence of designing 
Congressmen, it has proved a failure in the 
purpose originally designed and a shameful 
perversion of the law, and whereas worthless 
seeds and weed seeds have been sent out broad- 
east over the land to the farmer, 
Therefore,be it resolved that it is the unani¬ 
mous opinion of the members of Magee’s Cor¬ 
nel’s* Grange, No. 131), that the maintenance of 
the Seed Bureau at Washington is a useless ex¬ 
penditure of the people’s mouey, and that it 
should be abolished. 
Stick to the Matter in Hand. — I am told 
by a patent solicitor that there are still plenty 
of men who are sure they eau discover the 
secretof “perpetual motion.” No amount of 
reasoning or explanation will show them how 
foolish the idea is. In traveling about the 
country I am surprised to see how many 
farmers there are who honestly think they are 
going to invent something that will make 
their fortunes in a month. There are dozens 
of men who spend the time they ought to spend 
hoeing potatoes iu dreaming over some im- 
