FENCE-WIRE WINDER.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3617, 27 February 1906, Page 4

FENCE-WIRE WINDER.

With This Tool One Man Can Do Lot* ot Work Wlthont Tearing His Hands or Clothes. Last fall I made the device for winding up fentee wire, shown, in the acoompanyiingillustration. It is ai troublesome job to move a wire fence, but with this tool one man canl wind up

barb wire smoothly and quickly, and without tearing his clothes or hands. The wheels for the fi;ont 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 boles 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 Underrtralns. 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 !:) always know where it may be found. There is nothing more provoking loti.u buyer of a farm that is only partly underdrained than his inability todec'de just where the old drains are located and what size conduit they have. 0! 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 beeu avoided if the man who laid the drain had been careful to make a record of its location.

Tl»e Foundation 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 hurriecljand superficial man-