FENCE-WIRE WINDER.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3588, 21 October 1905, Page 4

FENCE-WIRE WINDER.

W«b Thla Tool One Man Can Do SiO(a of Work Without TMellff W* Hud* or Clotbee. Last fall I made the device for winding up fence wire, ehown la the accompanying illustration. Itiaai troublesome job to move a wire fence, but with this tool erne man catt 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 are placed on the rear end, so that the sled will dtAg 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. along. —Sebastian Meyer, Jr., in Farm and Fireside.

I Locate the CaderdmlM. ‘ Wherever an underdrain 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 underdrained 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 o t 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 had been careful to make a record of its location.

The Fonndwtlon of Ftn^lsf. Good plowing lies very clo'se 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 dooe Is a hurried and superficial mas-

i Ton Klt ?'t, ! Is )•». Oliver llf’onomtgava a picnic at f j Newport th»> other day, at which mem- j 'be.-., (i; tac .jluuj there 61 -d 1 I th< vfitU till the childish »;uthn- ! siasna they could command. It was : nil iJtira inform*! at/ai'r, and during ! the teruoon the good t-dcl gauiv of "droit the handkerchief” was proposed itic,, played. The turn to carry the iia/.dkerchief fell to a bright mi.*v *> to dropped it behind a member of iri'aiu’s aristocracy, who was in the If.rme. When told he must run after the girl, catch her, and claim a kiss ! ;ta a ransom, he looked extremely bored, stroked hi# mustache and mid: , “Alb! deucedly awkward, don’t you kno-w. Beally, I mini he excuaed,” he begged, muck to ike chagrin of tS»« young miaa. |

She forgave him later, when \t leaked out that the dear old chap had » cork ley and oouldn’t ran*~V. 1 Time*. n* Vital Spot of EmflM. There can be no dispute for a moment ae to the imr,. ’..vi yarity of the issue raised by any question of the efficiency of the Mediterranean squadron. No matter where our chief fighting fleet riiii ridt. that y int, and no other, is ilm rital spot of empire. It la the very center of our strategical system, acd the backbone of our whole defensive organism. If the Mediterranean. force were crushed ia some swift and stupendous disaster, following instantly upon any unexpected outb"«ak of war, our entire naval organijution, for all ultimate purposes, would be like a watch with a broke*, mala&priag.—London Telegraph. Saw Me Psim4 It. Pat—l say, Mike, I have a threepenny ,pUce with & hole ia it which I ■jaunot get rid of at all —at all. What ihall T do with It, begorra? Mik»—Sure, PaVyou must do the same as I did oacat—on exeellca* plea was mine. “Aad phwat waa It, at all, Milne?” “Oft, it we* line, Fat, I tell you. That threepenny piece had bothered »e a long toime, entolrely. Nobody would have £l. so at lest I melted down a sixpence and filled up the hole. Beforra, it went the very next day, »« ahoy."—London Spare Monseate,

Glass, though proverbially britt' i % ) will stand any amount of hard usage; but onco it is broken the omy tAing that remains to be done is to bhrow it away. Cementing will not d<* much good. , **.