ADJUSTABLE COVER.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 3569, 5 September 1905, Page 4

ADJUSTABLE COVER.

{Jarful for Many Purposes, lint Mors Kaptelally for Hie Protection of Hay and Corn Fodder. The illustration shows a novelty in the shape of an adjustable covering for bay, cornfodder, etc,, which any farmer can construct by the use of few tools ami little labor. Set four good, sound posts firmly in the ground, about 14 feet apart. The posts may be about 12 to 16 feet in length. Next make a rafter frame of proper diruensdorm to

fit inside of posts, and put on rafter* and shingle laths, making when completed a pyramidal-shaped roof ns illustrated, Now have the blacksmith make four iron devices after the style of, figure 2, leaving them like A for apiare posits, or'bending in the form rfhwn by R for round posts. Boil one of these irons on each corner of roof frame so a« to allow the roof to slide up and down the posts. Bore holes in the posits, and insert an iron pin or heavy bolt under each iron to hold roof at point desired. This completes; the adjustable shelter, and no doubt many n.'.ca to which it may be put will suggest themselves to • the up-to-date farmer. Any amount of the feed may bu removed, and the roof lowered, keeping therexnainder as well as before. —J. G. AUahouse, in Ohio Farmer. The ItnlvornaUty of Qriut. Next in importance to the divine profusion of water, light and air, those three great physical facte which render existence possible, may be reckoned the universal beneficence of grass. Exaggerated' by tropical heats and vapors to the gigantic cane congested with its saccharine secretion, or dwarfed by polar rigors to the fibrous hair of northern solitudes, embracing between these extremes the maize with its resolute pennons, the rice plant of southern swamps, the v heat, rye, barley, oats and other cereals, no less titan the humbler verdure of hillside, pasture and prairie in the temperate zone, grass is the moat widely distributed of all vegetable beings.—J. J. Ingalls.

Will] Onion In I’aitorci, The wild onion is the bane of th« pastures, but it can be eradicated entirely if attention is given it. One o‘ the remedies suggested for the v ild onion odor in mill: is to stable t ho cows about ihree o’clock and give hay, allowing their regular food as usual. The odor will pass off in the secretions in three or four hours. I- very season, however, 'lie wild onion regularly appears and increases, .yet b pests are easily destroyed by pulliheiu on or keeping them eo ■j\vn. This-may, be tedious fe.