ftSELECT A' 
£flavorc!I. 
is hung up and dried, will last for this pur¬ 
pose two years. Try it. w. h. b . 
Carlisle, Pa. 
Remarks.—W e have found that crows do 
much more good than harm. A few quarts 
of corn thoroughly soaked and scattered 
about the field just as the planted corn is com¬ 
ing up. will prevent all damage. 
at C. D is a common carpenter’s bench screw, 
which plays through the block, which is in 
turn supported by two iron straps, F F, made 
from old wagon-tire iron. The pan, E, can be 
made from a six-quart milk pan. The tinner 
stout stick, and nail an old shoe on to hold it 
together. 
P i $ r c 11 a n c o i t $ % dv c v t i .5't it n 
HARNESS HOOK. 
That Tired Feeling 
The warm weather has a debilitating effect. 
The “hook” shown at Fig. 81 is intended, 
by those who have it in use, to l>e placed where 
it is not practicable to drive a pin. It is far 
pi-—-- - ar better than the old- 
' m -- // fashioned 
The warm weather has a debilitating effect, 
especially upon those who are within doors most 
of the time. The peculiar, yet common, com¬ 
plaint known as “Ui.it tired feeling,” is the 
result. This roofing can he entirely overcome by 
taking Hood's Sarsaparilla, which gives now life 
and strength to all the functions of the body. 
“I could not sleep; had no appetite. I took 
flood's Sarsaparilla and soon began to sleep 
soundly; could get up without that tired and 
languid feeling; and my appetite improved.” 
R. a. Sanford, Kent, Ohio. 
Hood’s Sarsaparilla 
Sold by all druggists. $1; six for $5. Made 
only by C. I. HOOD & CO., Lowell, Mass. 
IOO Doses One Dollar 
crotehe d 
stick so much in use. 
A| /if A is a piece of 2x3-inch 
I I / / scantling, two feet 
1 I ,on &- with a morti ‘ se at 
I the top, into which C 
j fits, C is one inch 
•P broad, four inches wide 
Fig. 81. and 30 Inches long. It 
is hollowed to the depth 
of one inch at the center. It fits in a mortise 
at the top of the brace B. B is made of 2x3 
inch scantling, two feet six inches long. It is 
beveled at one end to fit at the bottom of A 
to which it is nailed. The whole arrangement 
is spiked to the wall. 
THINGS WORTH KNOWING. 
One spoonful of coal-tar to a peck of seed 
corn will prevent crows from pulling up the 
corn. 
Coal-tar will have no effect on the potato 
“bug.” It will preserve .shingles, if put on as 
they are laid; but pitch tar thinned with oil 
and mixed with paint is much better. Fifty 
years ago, I helped to put shingles on a. roof, 
prepared in this way, and most of them are 
there yet. 
Oil and pulverized charcoal will preserve 
fence-posts, but burning the end that goes 
into the ground, is the best preservative. I 
have some posts which were prepared in this 
way and set in 1862, and to-day they are just 
as sound as ever. w n 
The most fieatith 
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^ ******** w in the world. I.ovr 
Payment. Send for tAoalogw;?’ ad.iress' 
ovintUurfil 
corannij 
Tmimi 
can put a spout on it, as showu. G is an ordi¬ 
nary pail. In use, the pan is placed as shown 
in the illustration, the cylinder tilled with lard 
or cracklings, the piece of wood, C, placed at 
the top, and the screw applied. When the lard 
has been pressed out, the screw is reversed and 
the cracklings pushed out. 
THE JAPAN CHESTNUT. 
Is it larger than the Spanish? Nvts weigh¬ 
ing over one mince; are they from the 
Japan or the Spanish? 
AN ILLUSTRATION TRUE TO NATURE. 
The following letter explains itself: 
“We are surprised at what is said edi¬ 
torially on page 00 of the Rural for January 
33, in relation to the comparative sizes of the 
Spanish and Japan Chestnuts. We have 
handled a good many of both, and our im¬ 
pression is. and always has been, that the 
Japan averages much the larger, as well as 
being of superior flavor. We mail to the 
Rural office three samples of the Japan, 
which weigh over four ounces. We have had 
some that weighed l 1 ,. ounce each. Those we 
mail have been carelessly exposed to freezing 
and thawing, and are somewhat injured. We 
should not have taken any notice of the item, 
were it not that, we had given representations 
of each kind in our catalogue, and if the 
Spanish is the larger, they are 
The chestnuts forwarded were 
SNOW PLOW, 
/ mubeb/mrsojp 
HwjfjjTuna) ar 
In those parts of the country blessed with 
frequent and deep snows, it is no small chore 
to keep walks shoveled or cleared out We 
well remember the many weary hours spent 
when a boy in clearing out the snow a few 
hours would again put back, and all the time 
the horses were standing idle in the warm 
stables, eating hay nud oats. 
A snow plow is quickly made, and with one 
and a good horse, or team when the snow is 
extra-deep or has got packed pretty hard, 
more roads can be cleaned in to minutes than 
any boy can shovel out in half a day, and with 
the plow it. Is only fun for boy or horse, unless 
too many roads are to be cleaned, when the 
horse ceases to see where the fun comes in. To 
make a good one, take two hard-wood boards, 
or tough wood will do; they should he eight or 
nine feet long, 18 or 20 inches wide, and one 
or one-and-a-half inch thiek. The front 
ends should be cut three inches shorter on the 
upper than ou the under edge, and chamfered 
on the back side So as to fit together V-shaped, 
and so that the rear end will be spread as much 
as it is desired to have the walk or path wide. 
A piece of 4x(i scantling, a, should be cut to fit 
into the angle between the sides at the front 
end, and to this the sides should be firmly 
nailed. One foot from the rear end a 3x6 
piece should be put across from side to side, 
and let into both sides so as to come flush with 
the top. See 6, Fig. 86. 
\J /■ . GZASTOSVUKE C(tS2£ 
of the PURE «nd COOD,i''i» sc«p recommends 
itself. For the TOILET without an equal, for 
SHAVINC agrad Inx.u-y In pound oars, also 
iu packages of rt kihQkI or Square Cakes. A^kyour 
druggists for it, r s, ( i 2c stamp he trial sample. 
IT WILT, DELIGHT YOU. 
HARD TIMES DEVICES. 
“ Necessity is the mother of invention.” 
Hard times can be looked upon as the grand¬ 
parent. The walls of a new home generally 
look hare. There are usually plenty of un¬ 
framed pictures. These eau be framed at 
home. I give my experience as a framer. 
A box to fit the corners was needed. This 
was made, as shown in Fig. 83, from three 
dressed inch boards, 
si* inches wide and 18 
ril inch® 5 long, another 
incorrect, 
grown in Japan. 
We have none of our own raising chat we can 
send. They have fruited with us in two years 
from grafts put in bearing trees of the Amer¬ 
ican chestnut, and they have home in the 
nursery row at three years from seed—the 
trees not being more than three to four feet 
high. We have at different times grown con¬ 
siderable fruit of the Spanish Chestnut, but 
every once In a while we have had a cold 
Winter that killed them pretty well down to 
the ground: but wp do not know that the roots 
were ever injured. We think from what we 
have seen of the Japan Chestnuts on Long 
Island that they are neither as dwarf in habit, 
nor as large in fruit as those we are growing. 
We have imported a good many hundred 
pounds of nuts Horn Japan, and the average 
size has always been larger than that of any 
lot of Spanish Chestnuts we have ever seen. 
Paiaesville, O. j. j. harrison.” 
Five or six years ago, the writer saw, for the 
first time, a Ja|iao Chestnut tree. It was 
about six feet high and had borne fruit. A 
tree was ordered for the Rural’s Ex¬ 
periment Grounds. It died. Auother was 
ordered, aud that died. A third lived and is 
now about four years old though still only a 
hush four feet high. 
Upon inquiry, we found that several years 
prior to our first trial. Mr. Bruggerhof (of the 
firm of Thorbum & Co.. N. Y.J, had received 
ami planted some nuts from Japan. Many 
of them fruited in three or four years, bear¬ 
ing nuts not as gotxl iu quality as our native 
chestnuts, but nearly twice as iargv. He now 
informs us that these seedling trees are about 
30 feet iu hight, being 10 years old. Unless 
deprived of their lower branches, the trees 
assume a bushy form, spreading over the 
ground and bearing fruit within three feet of 
it, Even when the branches are cut away, 
A. exposing the main 
Fig. 74. entire at Fig. 76, and 
in half-section at 
Fig. 77 (see page 120). 
1 aits of chestnuts come to this country under 
the names of Japan, Spanish, Italian aud 
French; but, so far as we are informed, they 
are all tender iu this climate except the 
way of the saw. The sides are divided into 
three equal parts, and cut down with a saw 
so as to form a perfect X at the bottom. 
With this box to prepare the comers, I took 
pieces of bed and crown molding, left from 
the house, and fitted them together. They 
were pine, so I oiled and added walnut stain. 
When the frames were dry. small strips a 
trifle thicker than the glass, were added to the 
back and finally a thin board to hold picture 
and glass in place. When walnut and gilt are 
desired, stick strips of gilt paper ou the inner 
edge of the molding. 
A convenient way of arranging saws on 
the lid of a tool chest 
is shown at Fig. 83. —- 
The end of the blade j_ 
is put in a small p- gg 
pocket aud the hand¬ 
le is held with a button. may bee. 
GRATEFUL-COMFORTING 
Yon Can !je A N TTol o r 
Ditli Diamond Dyes, for lOets They never 
tall, fast colors. They also make inks, color photo’s, 
etc Send for colored samples and Dye book. Gold, 
Silver, Cooper and Bronte Pain's for any use—onlylu 
coats a package. Druexists sell or we send post-paid. 
Wells, Itichnrdsou A i’o.. Burlington. Vt. 
Fig. 86. 
A piece of board or piauk five inches nar¬ 
rower than the sides should next be cut long 
enough, and having its ends out on an angle 
so as to fit closely to the sides when placed up¬ 
right and close up to the cross-piece, b. The 
lower edge of this piece should tie hollowed 
out in the middle between the sides so as not 
to strike any stones or frozen hubs on the 
ground; to this the sides and also the cross¬ 
piece should be firmly nailed. Another cross¬ 
piece mid perpendicular board of the same 
kind, only shorter, should be put in, as at C. 
A beam should be provided, JK This should be 
4x4 inches, and seven feet long. Its hind end 
should be bolted to the center of the hinder 
cross-piece, ns at F. There should lie a hole 
through this beam, where it passes over the 
forward cross-piece which should have three 
or more holes. By putting a licit through 
these holes aud the beam, the plow can be 
ON 30 DAYS’ TRIAL. 
THIS NEW 
ELASTIC TRUSS 
SAFE BARN LOCK. 
Mr. J. Krupp, of Franklinville, Ont., Can¬ 
ada, tells us how 7 be fastens his barn door. 
The lock proper is an ordinary sliding wood¬ 
en bolt, fixed on the inside of the door. A 
hole, half an inch iu diameter, is bored 
through the door two inches above the bolt. 
The key, shown at Fig. 84, is a piece of ordin- 
Hsls a I'ui different from all 
others. Is cup shape. with Self- 
adjusting Ball In center, adapts 
itself to re i pi isitmns of the 
hodv while the ball inthecup 
presses back the intes¬ 
tines just as a person 
SENSIBLE 
TRUSS 
does with the finger. With light pressure the Her¬ 
nia Is hold securely day and night, and a radical cure 
certain. His easy, durable and cheap. Sant by mail Cir¬ 
culars free. ElitiLESTON Tlll'SS CO., Chlt.go, IU. 
ORGANS 
PIANOS: 
New mode of 
Stringing. Do 
not require one- 
quartet as 
much tuning as 
rianos on the 
prevailing 
" w re s t-pin 1 ’ 
system. R e - 
mat table for 
.purity of tone 
’and durability. 
Fig. 84. 
ary three-eighth inch iron with a hinge at a. 
W heu the key is pushed through tho hole, the 
shorter part falls iuto the position shown at 
Fig. 2, between two projections on the bolt, 
so that when the key is turned the bolt is 
pushed into place. This lock is cheap and will 
be hard to pick. 
Highest Hon¬ 
ors at all Great 
World's Exhi¬ 
bit i o n s for. 
eight eenyenrsJ 
One hundred" 
Styles. J.;, to 
Iw. Fc* Cash. 
liasyPa, meets 
orReiued. Cat¬ 
alogues tree. 
USE THE OLD HORSE-SHOES. 
164 Tremont St-.Boston. 46 E. 14th St. (Union Sq.) 
N. Y. 149 Wabash Ave., Chicago. 
omy iu making things live 
80 shows how this principle 
can be carried out with 
_ ^ respect to old horse¬ 
shoes. Mr. W, F. Wo<id- 
_ruff, who sent us the 
£— sketch, snvs 
LARD PRESS, 
Mr. George AVhiton sends us the design 
for the implement shown at Fig. 86. We think 
the women who bum their lingers aud have a 
hard time generally over the hot lard, will 
look upon it, with favor. A sheet-iron eyliu- 
der, A, is punctured with holes for one-third 
of the space from the bottom, as shown at B. 
A block of wood, two inches thick and just 
Jurge enough to enter the cylinder, is shown 
Horse- 
— shoes nmy be made to 
'^Si- ”] ( few - i — do duty in a number of 
ways * fter they bavo 
^1,'i . so outlived their usefulness 
ou the annual's hoofs. 
For instance, when I discover a fence post 
which has split, I draw it up with a chain and 
SA V K Your POSTS nud use SHA W'S WIRE 
FKXl'K TlfjllTEXKK. Gw* tu- adjusted ui auv 
wooden pan, esn tighten or slacken, aeoonllug to cli¬ 
mate, with an ordinary monkey wreneh. Price #S 
per doz. For full particulars, apply to 
W. SHAW, 
Delaware. Ontario, Canada. 
Agents wanted, Patent applied for. 
(Continued on page 130.) 
