300 
RIDINC 
MULCHER 
POTATO DIGGER 
TRACTION SPRAYER 
Make Money for Potato Growers 
Eureka PotataMachines take hard work outof potato growing. 
They reduce time and labor costs. They assure bigger yields. 
Traction Sprayer 
Insures the crop. Sizes, 
4 or 6 rows. 60 to 100 
gallon tanks. Many 
styles of booms. 
Potato Cutter 
Cuts uniform 
Operates with 
hands free for 
ing. 
seed. 
both 
feed- 
Potato Planter 
One man machines 
doing five operations in 
one. Over twenty-three 
years’ success. 
Riding Mulcher 
Breaks crusts, mulches soil, and 
kills weeds when potato crop is 
young and tender. 8, 10 and 12 
ft. sizes. Many other uses, with 
or without seeding attachment. 
Potato Digger 
Famous for getting all the 
potatoes, separating and 
standing hard use. With or 
without engine attachment 
or tractor attachment. 
All machines in stoch near you. Send for complete catalogue 
EUREKA MOWER CO. Box 1110 Utica, N. Y. 
POTATO PLANTER 
The WINDMILL with a RECORD 
The Auto-oiled Aermotor has behind it 9 
years of wonderful success. ' It is not an experiment. 
The Auto-oiled Aermotor is the Gen¬ 
uine Self-Oiling Windmill, with every mo vug 
part fully and constantly oiled. 
Oil an Aermotor once a year and it is always 
oiled. It never makes a squeak. 
The double gears run in oil In a tightly enclosed gear case. They 
are always flooded with oil and are protected from dust and sleet. 
The Auto-oiled Aermotor is so thoroughly oiled that it runs in the 
slightest breeze. It gives more service for the money invested than 
any other piece of machinery on the farm. 
You do not have to experiment to get a windmill 
that will run a year with one oiling. The Auto-oiled Aermotor is 
a tried and perfected machine. 
Our large factory and our superior equipment enable us to produce economically and 
accurately. Every purchaser of an Aermotor gets the benefit from quantity production. 
The Aermotor is made by a responsible company which has specialized in steel windmills for 36 years. 
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Kansas City 2.00 Kansas City 
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Before you buy your new silo, you owe it to 
yourself to investigate the big advantage of “that 
GRIFFIN Door.” Always tight and no chance 
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Front. Farmers write that the GRIFFIN is more 
than they ever expected. 
Discount to Agents if there is no G RIFFIN Agent in your territory 
GRIFFIN LUMBER CO. 
Box 3, Hudson Falls,N.Y. 
$700 Gets 345 Acres with 
9 Cows, Horses, Tools 
Furniture, implements, etc.; prosperous farmers all 
around; schools, stores, churches, good markets; heavy 
cropping loamy fields, 100-cow pasture, estimated 150,000 
ft. timber, 700 sugar maples, 300 apple trees; 2-story 
8-room house, 50-ft. basement barn, tenant house, stable. 
To settle affairs now S2600 takes all, only S700 needed. 
Details page 70 New Ulus. Bargain Catalog money¬ 
making farms, best sections United States. Copy free. 
STROCT FARM AGENCY. 150R Nassau St., N. Y. 
City. 
The “E-Z” SHOCK ABSORBING SEAT SPRING 
will make the farm machines.TRACTORS, etc., rideEASY. 
Why shake your daylights out 
when you can ride comfortably? 
I Quickly changed from one ma¬ 
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CERTIFIED SEED POTATOES 
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American Agriculturist, March 22, 1924 
Going Over the Harness 
How to Put It in Shape for the Spring' Business 
TN every farmer's ex- By F. G. BEHRENDS held firmly. I n 
A perience, the time some vises, it is not 
comes when a part or parts of a har- possible to set the clamp in far enough 
ness become the worse for wear and needs for the jaws of the vise to force the ends 
attention. At this time the old adage of the clamp tightly against the straps, 
which says: “A stitch in time saves In such eases, jcut another rectangular 
nine," is certainly true, for making a 
repair on a harness when the stitches first 
break is indeed a stitch in time. Frequent 
cleaning and oiling and timely repairing 
will add many years to the life of a har¬ 
ness and save time and labor as well. 
While two or three rivets and a piece 
of wire are doubtless of value in cases 
of emergency, tliey should be and can be 
replaced easily by more suitable and more 
durable repairs. After the simple arts 
of making a waxed harness thread and of 
stitching has been mastered, any one 
£ 
3 
Fig. 1.—A Simple Harness Clamp 
can, with the aid of a few special repair 
parts, easily care for and repair a harness. 
Very few tools are absolutely necessary 
in stitching, although there are a few 
inexpensive harness-maker’s tools which, 
when used, add to the ease of doing the 
work and to .its appearance when finished. 
With a sharp pocket or kitchen paring 
knife, a harness thread, and an awl, 
stitching can be done. The spacing of 
the stitches can be approximated or 
marked with, the aid of a ruler and an 
awl. A finishing wheel simplifies the 
work of marking off the stitches and the 
same tool may be run over the stitching 
w r hen done. This second use of the 
finishing wheel improves the finish of the 
work by making the stitches appear more 
uniform. If it is desired to give straps 
or other pieces of leather a very neat 
appearance, the edges may be slightly 
beveled with an edging tool and one or 
more creases may be placed along the 
edges of straps by the use of a creaser. 
Making a Simple Harness Clamp 
piece simular to piece C, and nail it on 
the outside of piece B at such a distance 
from the lower end that when the vise 
is closed, one of the jaws will press 
against this strip of wood. 
Cleaning and Oiling 
In order to obtain the greatest life from 
any harness, it should occasionally be 
cleaned and oiled. In order to do the 
work well, it is best to take the harness 
apart and make such repairs as are 
necessary. Allow the harness to soak 
thoroughly in a wash-tub three-quarters 
full of warm water, containing a handful 
of sal soda. As each part is removed, 
scrub it well and put it aside. The work 
of scrubbing will be greatly facilitated if 
a scrubbing board made of a 1-foot board 
six or eight feet long to the sides of which 
are nailed two 2-inch strips, is used. 
Place one end of this board on the edge 
of the tub and the other end on some 
object higher than the tub. This board 
will furnish a good surface on which to 
scrub the parts of the harness and will 
also allow the dirty -water to drain back 
into the tub. While the harness is still 
wet, apply harness oil with a sponge or a 
cloth. Rub the oil well into the leather. 
As the water dries out of the leather the* 
harness oil will work in. As the parts 
of the harness are oiled, place them in a 
pile so that the surplus oil may drip 
from the top pieces to the lower pieces, as 
Fig. 3.—Splicing a Strap by Use of a 
Conway Loop 
shown 'in Fig. 2. The condition of the 
harness will determine the number of 
coats needed. 
Before stitching can be done, some sort 
of clamp must be at hand to hold the 
work. While a regular harness-maker’s 
“horse” with clamp is very desirable, 
the lack of one need not prevent the 
Splicing a Strap by Use of a Conway 
Loop 
If it is desired to splice a strap quickly 
a Conway loop or rivets may be used. 
Either of these methods should be con¬ 
sidered as temporary rather than as 
permanent and should, whenever possi¬ 
ble, be replaced later by a stitched splice. 
When using a Conway loop, cut off 
squarely the ends of the straps to be 
spliced. Insert one end of the strap 
through branch X of the Conway loop 
and through branch Y, so that it will 
project slightly beyond Y Fig. 3. Mark 
and punch the hole for the buckle tongue. 
Lay this marked strap on the other, 
being sure that the ends to be spliced are 
even. Mark and punch the other hole. 
Assemble the straps and the Conway loop 
as shown in Fig. 3. 
Fig. 2.—Oiling the Harness 
doing of even a considerable amount of 
stitching. A simple harness clamp may 
be quickly and easily made as follows: 
Cut two pieces of board, Fig. 1, A and B, 
and finish them to the dimensions shown 
in. the drawing. Cut another piece % 
inch by ? yi inch by 4 inches. Fig. 1, C, and 
bevel the lower edge slightly. Cut a 
piece of leather 4 inches by 2 3 A inches 
Fig. 1, D. Nail piece C to piece A, hav¬ 
ing piece C in such a position that its 
beveled edge is down. Place piece B in 
position and nail the leather (D) to 
pieces A and B only. To use the clamp, 
place the leather to be stitched between 
the jaws of the clamp, place the clamp in 
a vise, and tighten the vise. The jaws 
will be brought together and the leather 
Politics and Farm Taxes 
(Continued from page 290) 
while they are cutting the tax on big 
incomes by close to 50 per cent.” 
We know that you are interested. 
Read the petition, cut it out and send it 
in. Bring the matter up in your Grange 
and your other farm meetings and get 
everybody of voting age to sign. One 
hundred thousand farm signatures froni 
two or three Eastern States alone will 
show the politicians in these States that 
the farmers have got beyond the talking 
stage and that farm taxes are going to 
come down or farmers are going to know 
the reason why. 
