ADJUSTABLE COVER.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3579, 30 September 1905, Page 4

ADJUSTABLE COVER.

(.'.-.etal for Many Purpose*, Bat Mors Especially for the Proteetloa of Hay and Corn Podder.

The illustration shows a novelty in the shape of an adjustable covering for hay, corn fodder, etc,, which any farmer can construct by the use of few tools and little labor. Set four good, sound posts' lirmly in the ground, about 14 feet apart. The posts may be about 12 to 1G feet in length. Next make a rafter frame of proper dimensions to

fit inside of posts, and put on rafters 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 likf A for square posts, or bending in the form shown by B for round posts. Bolt one of these irons on each corner of roof frame ®o as to allow the roof to slide up and down the posts. Bore hole* in the posts, and insert an iron pin or heavy bolt under each iron to hold poof at point desired. This completes the 'adjustable shelter, and no doubt many uses 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 theiremainder as well as before.-— J. G. AUshouse, in Ohio Farmer. The Universality of Oraaa. Next in importance to the divine profusion of water, light and air, those three great physical fact* which render existence possible, may bo reckoned the universal beneficence of grass. Exaggerated by tropical heat* 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 wheat, rye, barley, oats and other cereals, no less than the humbler verdure of hillside, pasture and prairie in the temperate zone, grass i* the most widely distributed of all vegetable beings.—J. J. Ingalls. ■ Wild Onion In Pastures. The wild onion is the bane ol the pastures, but it can be eradicated entirely if attention is given it. One of the remedies suggested for the wild onion odor in milk is to stable the cows about three o’clock and give hay, allowing their regular food as usual. The odor will pass off in the secretions in three or four hour*. Every season, however, the wild onion regularly appears and increases, yet the pests are easily destroyed by pulling them tip or keeping them cut down. This may be tedious for