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either of the hooks, the rope from which passes 
beneath a pulley or roller at the bottom of the 
crib. Rings are fixed to the sides of the wagon- 
box, and rope slings are made provided with 
hooks to fit these rings. When a load of ears 
is brought from the field the slings are hooked 
to the rings of the wagon-box and to the lower 
Fig. 2.— UNLOADING CORN-EARS. 
block of pulleys, and the team is hitched to the 
rope. The whole load is then elevated, and 
when high enough the box is turned, the end 
board loosened, and by means of a hook the 
rear end of the wagon-box is fastened to the 
crib. The team being carefully driven ahead, 
the front of the box is raised and the corn is 
shot out into the crib. If there is only the 
common open crib usual in the Western corn 
regions a frame of poles may be erected to 
which the hoisting tackle may be fastened. To 
adapt the plan to a small corn-crib we suggest 
the contrivance shown, at figures 2 and 3. It is 
to provide boxes which fit in pairs upon the 
frame of the wagon instead of a wagon-box. 
Rings are fastened to the sides of the boxes. 
A floor with low sides and ends is made to re¬ 
ceive them. As the corn is gathered the bask¬ 
ets are emptied into the boxes, and when the 
whole of them are filled they are taken to the 
crib. Here they are hoisted one by one by 
means of a rope passing over pulleys (as hay is 
hoisted on a hay-fork), and emptied in at the 
door of the crib. One side of the box is made 
sloping and projecting, so that the corn is 
readily dumped, the sloping lip resting upon 
the sill of the door of the crib. If the boxes 
are made twenty inches square and twenty 
inches deep they will hold about three bushels 
of ears each. Fourteen boxes of this size can 
be used in a space of twelve feet. If the wagon- 
box is of that length, a load of over forty 
bushels may thus be drawn at once. If the 
wagon is made to contain sixteen of the boxes 
about fifty bushels may be drawn at a load. 
Fraudulent Butter.— From the outset we 
have discouraged the manufacture and sale of 
the so-called “ suet butter” as a fraud upon the 
consumer as well as the dairyman. In no sense 
can the stuff be called butter, and we are glad 
to sec that at last the sense of the dealers in 
butter is aroused, and that a demonstration is 
making against “ oleo-margarine,” or fat, suet, 
tallow, or whatever it may be, churned in sour 
milk and packed and put upon the market as 
butter. In just so much as this fraud may be 
perpetrated is the market value of butter de¬ 
pressed in the market. Because as there is an 
established market for butter of poor grades 
amongst poor consumers and bakers in the 
cities, anything which may dispute the position 
in the market of this class of butter makes it 
unsalable, and affects the entire market by an 
accumulation of stock. Therefore factory- 
men, dairymen, and even makers of the “ gilt- 
edged butter” are directly interested in pre¬ 
venting this stuff from coming upon the market 
as butter. Let it be sold for what it really is— 
j a preparation of tallow ; this the makers of it 
: have a perfect right to do, but when it enters 
| the market as butter of any kind it usurps a 
; place to which it has no right, and becomes a 
fraud and a thing to be discouraged. The 
New York Butter and Cheese Exchange has 
at last determined to interfere to protect the 
interests of their clients, and to obtain such 
legislative action as shall enforce the use of a 
proper and descriptive brand upon this spuri¬ 
ous article, and to deny it a position of any 
character whatever amongst dairy products. 
A Portable Fence. 
By and by the interior fences upon the ma¬ 
jority of farms will be abolished. As farmers 
learn the value of economy they will no longer 
much. It would be safe to allow half a bushel 
of corn, ground into meal, a week for a hog of 
100 to 150 pounds, and more in proportion for 
larger ones. At fattening time there can be 
no limit given; the hog should have all it can 
be induced to eat or made to digest. 
A New Harrow. 
The harrow shown in the annexed engraving 
is one made by Messrs. Carr & Hobson, of 
Beckman street, New York. It is specially de¬ 
signed for strength and indestructibility—being 
made wholly of iron and steel—as well as for 
mellowing the surface, destroying weeds, and 
for evenly covering seed. As an implement for 
working either a summer or a fall fallow it is 
very effective, while for covering seed it is a far 
better implement than the common harrow, 
which leaves a large portion of seed upon the 
surface and covers another portion too deeply. 
The action of the teeth is to turn over the soil 
so as to cover the seed very evenly and yet 
leave the surface without ridges. Upon newly 
plowed sod it will also do excellent work. The 
teeth are of cast steel, sharp and very strong, 
and clear themselves so perfectly that nothing 
can possibly be retained upon them while the 
harrow is at work, so that manure may be 
evenly spread with the implement if desired. 
A Convenient ^arm-House. 
A PORTABLE FENCE. 
submit to the enormous wastes caused by these 
fences, and will either fence their pastures only, 
or use portable or temporary fences which can 
be readily taken down, moved, and replaced 
elsewhere. We give here an engraving of a 
hurdle fence which is made of panels of light 
poles, strips, or boards, and which are connected 
together by means of wire rings or loops of 
light rope. They are placed 
in a zigzag position so as to 
support each other, and each 
panel may be used as a gate 
as occasion may require. 
Consumption of Feed.— 
A horse v consume 18 lbs. 
of hay and twelve quarts of 
mixed oats and com, ground 
into coarse meal, per day. A 
cow will need 18 lbs. of hay 
and 6 quarts of meal if she is 
milking. If at pasture three 
quarts of meal maybe profit¬ 
ably fed per day. 100 hens 
will require 100 bushels of 
corn in a year, in addition to 
what they can pick up on 
their range. They will need 
very little corn in the sum¬ 
mer, but at least a quarter of a pint a day 
in winter. The quantity of corn needed by 
a hog depends much upon its size, breeu, 
and appetite, in all of which hogs differ very 
“Subscriber” asks for a plan whereby he 
can build a small house to which by and oy he 
can add a front, and thus secure as many con¬ 
veniences as possible without unnecessary pres¬ 
ent expense. The plans here shown will prob¬ 
ably answer the purpose. The detail may be 
altered to suit almost any circumstances, but 
as they are here given they were found very 
convenient as a farm-house for a small family 
Fig. 1.— FARM-HOUSE COMPLETED. 
by the writer some years ago. The part to be 
built first is the rear portion. This consists of 
four or five rooms, two below and two or three 
above with a wing containing a dairy and 
