410 WISCONSIN STATE AORIGULTURAL SOCIETY, 
to make one like mine if you wish to, but I want to make a claim 
in your hearing, of the invention of the horse*fork carrier as used 
in the summer of 1876 in the barns of H. H. Potter, N. W. Morley 
and Fred. Barringer, and as shown on our fair ground last fall. 
The wagon jack, and the looped chain to drag weeds into the fur¬ 
row before the plow, as used when I was a boy, have been patent¬ 
ed in late years, and I want to head off, as far as I can, such swin¬ 
dlers. 
A few experiences — allow me to take that back — a few obser- 
vatioils on the discomforts of farming: icith a barn, will make a fit- 
ting close for my paper. 1st. Doors flying in the wind, hinges 
broken, door split, wind and snow driving in, chilling the stock. 
Remedy: have all the doors fastened when opened as well as when 
shut. 2d. Sills rotting, floors settling away, wind and snow as be¬ 
fore. Remedy: keep the top of the manure pile lower than the 
bottom of the sill. 3d. Barn floor full of stock as soon as a door is 
left open for a moment, cattle, sheep, hogs and horses in one mud¬ 
dle, to be charged upon at the point of the bayonet (the pitchfork), 
and driven out. Sheep are run over and bruised by cows; a hog 
darts under the corn sheller, carries it over, demoralizing the cast 
crank; the colt, having torn open a full grain bag, starts out with 
an empty one in his teeth. The bag must be recovered; by that 
time the “ critters ” are all back but the colt. Another bulldozing 
performance is gone through with, this time in anger. Remedy: 
have one side of the barn for your own use, to which animals can 
only come upon your special invitation, for in this way only can 
you enjoy the building and your w^ork within it as you ought. 
FARMERS’ BOYS AND GIRLS. 
BY MRS. D. HUNTLEY, APPLETON. 
Read before the Wisconsin Dairymen’s Association, at Appleton, Jan. 18, 1877. 
There is nothing in which the farmer should take a greater inter¬ 
est than he does in his boys and girls, and this interest should in¬ 
clude all that pertains to their physical, intellectual and moral de¬ 
velopment, and should be continued and constant during all the 
