FENCE-WIRE WINDER.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3581, 5 October 1905, Page 4

FENCE-WIRE WINDER.

With Thin Tool One Man Can Do Lota of Work Without Tearing: HU Hands or Clathofl.

Last fall I .made the device for winding up fenlee wire, shown, in the nc©ompanyingillnslrati'On. It is ai troublesome job to move a wire fence, but with this tool one man can wind up

barb wire smoothly and quickly, and without tearing his clothes or hands. The wheels for the front end are some old pulleys picked up at an implement warehouse. None arc placed on the rear end, so that the sled will drag a little harder to increase the tension. Fasten the end of the wire to an empty spool, and place the spool on a crowbar, run through holes in the standards. Stand behind, between the runners, and turn the spool, which will wind up the wire and draw the sled along. —Sebastian Meyer, Jr., in Farm and Fireside. . ; Locate the Umlerdrnins.

* Wherever an nnderdrain has been .laid, either a map of the ground should be drawn, or such other memorandum as will enable the owner of the land to always know where it may be found. There is nothing more provoking to the buyer of a farm that is only partly underdraiued than his inability to decide just where the old drains are located and what size conduit they have. Of course the drain, if in working order, will show within two or three rods where tile or stone may be found. But to reach it then requires much needless digging, which could all have been avoided if the man who laid the drain hud been careful to make a record of its location.

< The PointUatlon of Farming:.

■ Good plowing lies very close to the foundation of successful farming, being the foundation stone upon which nearly all thorough and successful soil culture must rest. It is an operation which should never be performed carelessly, for, while it often is expensive to plow the ground thoroughly , it is even more so to permit of the work being done in a hurried and superficial man-