ADJUSTABLE COVER.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 3550, 22 July 1905, Page 4

ADJUSTABLE COVER.

Useful for Many Purposes, Hat More E»iieolnl!y for the Protection of Hay and Corn Fodder. The illustration shows a novelty in the shape of an adjustable covering for buy, com fodder, etc., which any farmer can construct by the use of few tools and little, labor. Set four good, sound posts firmly in the ground, about 14 feet apart. The posts may be about 12 to 1C feet in length. Next make a rafter frame of proper dimensions to

ADJUSTABLE COVERING, fit inside of pests, and put on rafter* and shingle laths, making when completed a pyramidal-shaped roof as illustrated. Now have the blacksmith make four iron devices after the style of figure 2, leaving (hem like A for square posts, or bending in the form •] shown posts. Holt one 1 of these iron* tfittt&ach corner of roof allow the roof to slide posts. Bore holes in A an iron pin or bffl t uiltfor each iron to hold roof —-at"point desired. This completes the n:adj(®sl l no doubt many :-"us<is to which it may be put will suggest themselves to the up-to-date farmer. Any amount of the feed may be removed, and the roof lowered, keeping the remainder as well as before. —J. G. Allshouse, in Ohio Farmer. The Unlyemnllijr of Griui, - ; Next in importance to the divine , those three great physicaf'facts which I render be reckoned .|^‘ M of grass. Exaggerated by tropical beats and vapors to the gigantic cane con,it» saocharibi)* ! .‘of idwaHed-toy 'polar ' rifrdrs ’fo*^the flirous'haln of’ borthprd isoJK , bracing bptw<fen ( t^esf; jex^n^''t^e'’ . mhl& ! ' j ri^ [qi swampa, i the ; ., wheat^.yyf,barky, toots-mnd/i othd»w cepeals, no less than the humblen-Vfef'-' 1 ' ; dure of hillside, pasture and prairie *1 ini the' UCtrJpterilel to'hb;' gfil&jvil *tnfe nfost widely distributed of all vege- ; table ( beings^.—J,. Ingalls, #j, ( Wild Onion in Pastures, ' The wild' fo .pfiC: bAUf,«£ the pastures, but it can be eradicated entirely __ if atteutiofi,,i.s gi.vgn .it. ,>oWe»t of the remedies suggested for the wild onion odor in milk is to stable t the cows about three o’clock and give hay, allowing: their:! rolpiTad' ’fbdP-ls*' usual. The odor will pass off in the secretions in throe or four hours. Every season, however, the wjld onjop , regularly appiWto* bll'd '’’ihcreaWs,'yVi*' the'pests are easily destroyed by pulling them up ib-uileepitig'’fb(>Vu cut '•down. This may be tedious fo*