ADJUSTABLE COVER.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3602, 25 November 1905, Page 4

ADJUSTABLE COVER.

Usttfol for Many PnrpoMS, Bat Kora Bip««lall7 tor the Protsetioa of Hay ud Core Fodder. The illustration show® a novelty in the shape of an adjustable covering lor hay.cornfodder.etc., which any farmer can construct by the use of few tools and 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 dimension* to

ADJUSTABLE COVERING, flit inside of pewrts, and put on rafters and shingle laths, making when completed a pyramidal-shaped roof as illustrated. Now have the blacksmith moke four iron devices after the style of figure 3, leaving them like A for square posits, or bending in the form shown by B for round post*. Bolt one of these irons on each corner of roof frame so as to allow the roof to slide up and down, the posts. Bore holes in the posts, 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 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 the remainder as well as before.—J. G. Allehouse, in Ohio Farmer.

The Universality of Grass. Next in importance to the divine profusion of water, light and ah’, those three great physical fact* which render existence possible, may be reckoned the universal beneficence of grass. Exaggerated- by tropical beats 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 k the most widely distributed of all vegetable beings.—J. J. Ingalls.

Wild Onion in Pastures. The Wild onion is the bane of 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 hours. Every season, however, the wild onion regularly appears and increases, yet the pests are easily destroyed by pulling them up or keeping them cut down. .This may be tedious lor