FENCE-WIRE WINDER.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3600, 21 November 1905, Page 4

FENCE-WIRE WINDER.

With This Tool One Man Can Do Lots of Work Without Tearing Hie Hands or Clothes.

Last fall I made the device for winding up fentee wire, shown in the acoompanyingillustration. Itisai troublesome job to move, a wire fence, but with this tool one man. caul wind up

* for winding fence wire.

barb wire smoothly and quickly, and without tearing his clothes or bands. 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 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 CnderdudM.

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 or three rods where tile or stone may be found. But to reafh ft 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. Foundation of Farming;.

Good plowing lies very close to tihe founcla.tipß of successful farming’, be- , ing fim foundation stone upon which pearljjf All thorough and successful soil must rest. It is an operation : ; which Should never be performed caredes'siyi for, v?hile it often is expensive to ■plow - the ground thoroughly , it is even to permit of the work being , ‘done }n a hurried and superficial man-