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Tying a Wool Fleece eompanying sketch shows the arrange 
^ ill you print plans for a good wool 
tie? I want a good sized one, as I have 
sheep shearing from 12 to 14 lbs. of wool. 
Columbia Co., N. Y. h. f. f. 
Some siieep growers seem to have diffi¬ 
culty, or feel that they have, in proper¬ 
ly tying a fleece of w T ool without the aid 
of the wool box. As a matter of fact 
the trade is not concerned so much 
whether a fleece is tied in a wool box or 
in some other manner, therefore the only 
advantage is that the tied fleece may be 
neater in appearance. 
Probably a small minority of the sheep 
Plan for Making 
growers make use of this device. Any 
farmer can readily learn with a little 
practice how to tie neatly a fleece of 
wool without a wool box, ,and the work 
can be performed quickly. Brief direc¬ 
tions for tying a fleece without the wool 
ment of the reins and eveners. In the 
sketch the full lines, B B, represent the 
usual cross lines, while the dotted lines 
A A represent the lengths of strap or 
small rope tied to the liame ring of the 
inner horse, passed through the bit ring 
of the outer horse and then tied to the 
bit ring of the inner horse. By hitching 
in this way a pull on either rein serves 
to guide the whole team, and at the 
same time each horse is given • all the 
freedom possible. 
This method of hitching is advised by 
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the Horsemen’s Association of America, 
of Chicago, Ill. They have considerable 
free literature relative to different 
hitches for teams that might be of in¬ 
terest to you. b, h. s. 
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for your boy, too 
OU want to keep him at home when he 
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— V 3 more per dollar. 
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box are as follows: 
Spread the fleece on a table flesh side 
down, work the wool together in a 
rather compact mass. Fold in the legs 
and sides, then the breach, head and 
neck wool. Fold in the rear part of the 
fleece and cover this with the shoulder 
wool well spread. In this way the back 
and shoulder wools which contain the 
A Mud Henhouse 
I recall reading in Tiie R. N.-Y. in re¬ 
gard to the construction of mud houses, 
but I do not remember some of the direc¬ 
tions, and I wonder whether I may 
trouble you to ask about certain aspects. 
Would it be practical to make the walls 
of a henhouse of mud? I can get blue 
clay in any quantity by paying for the 
hauling, which would amount to about $1 
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Four-liorse Hitch on Harrow 
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best fibers are all on the outside of the 
fleece, and it is as attractive as it can 
be made in so far as the quality of ex¬ 
posed wool fibers are concerned. 
i Tie this bundle with four wraps of 
paper or manila wool twine. Two wraps 
each way. Properly done no additional 
twine is required. It is a mistake to tie 
fleeces very compactly. All that is neces¬ 
sary is for the fleece to hold together with 
ordinary handling. Too much string is 
objectionable from the buyers’ stand¬ 
point. 
For the sheep grower desiring to use 
a wool box the plan shown in drawing 
is probably as good as any. From this 
one can construct a similar box. Large 
fleeces such as from our mutton breeds 
will require a larger box capacity than 
fleeces from the fine wool breeds. 
F. E. ROBERTSON. 
Four Horses on Harrow 
Will you tell me how I can hitch four 
horses on a disk harrow. g. j. o. 
Jefferson Co., N. Y. 
The team can be used four abreast on 
the tongueless disk harrow, and the ac- 
per load. How thick should the walls be, 
and would they need any reinforcement? 
What protection from the weather could 
be used on the outside of the walls. I am 
interested in the matter of a mud hen¬ 
house more as a matter of experiment 
than as a means of saving. j. m. c. 
Maine. 
What we printed was a short article 
from a reader in New Mexico, who told 
how the Mexicans and others build their 
houses of “adobe” or sun-baked brick. 
These bricks were made of a mixture of 
clay and sand from 8 to 12 in. in width 
and G to 18 in. in length, being about 4 
in. in thickness. They were laid up in 
walls of various thicknesses and fastened 
together with mud or clay. They are 
fairly .satisfactory in that dry country, 
where there is usually very little rain, 
but it is not likely that they would 
answer in Maine or in any section where 
there is a normal rainfall. A mud hen¬ 
house would not last long. The rain 
would gradually destroy it, and it would 
be too damp and sticky for ordinary use. 
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is to have more sense than the child.— 
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