Working Three Horses.

Waikato Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2078, 31 October 1885, Page 2 (Supplement)

Working Three Horses.

It is often a considerable advantage to work thrte borses abrea3t, and when you bavo the teams such a plan will be often found qnite profitable. More work oan b« done in a day and generally with more ease to the teams. Three borees are no harder to manage than two if properly hitched up, and outBide of the long double tree nothing extra is Deeded. Any good farmer can make a first rate eyener with very little trouble. Yon need one good pair of doubletrees with Riagletrees attached and one singletree. Then take a good piece of timber two and* one-half or three inches thick by four wide, and long enough for the singletrees to work well without rubbing against etch other — say three or four feet long. Boi* a hole in eaoh end and fasten the doubletree at one end and the singletree at the other. Measnre carefully the distance between these hubs and then bore the next hole by which the team is to be fastened to the implement, one third the distance from the doubletree side. This will give two-thirds of the length to the single horse who baring the longest leverage will be ablo to keep up his end as easily as the other two. This oan be used in a waggon, harrow, plough or any other implement that the farmer finds convenient to hitch three horses to. In arranging the lines a good pair of check lines with two extra straps is all that will be neoessary. Pat a line with check in eaoh outside horse putting the check through the hames and acroas to the bit of inside horse, fasten the other end in the same way. Then use a strap from each side of the middle horse to the inside ring of each outside horse. This will give yon perfect control of^ the team and yet will only require one pair of linei. I prefer this plan to using jockey stioks, or having an extra set of lines to handle. While the arrangement of the doubletree is very simple and can be made by. any farmer in a few minutes it will do the work fully aa well as any patented doubletree or three-horse evener I have ever tried. A little experience in working three hordes will prove to the farmer how easily they can be managed and the farmer will be led to use them more as he become! accustomed to the plan.