STOOL TO HOLD PAIL

dirt in it will find the stool shown here a remedy for their troubles. It is also very serviceable in fly time. The upright pieces forming the legs and ends of stools are made of 2 x 8inch pieces about I foot long. The supports for the bucket and the seat are

made of inch boards. To secure rigidity it is well to put three-cornered blocks under the seat and bucket board as brace stays. The most restless cow is not likely to upset the bucket from this stool.

THE EVER READY STOOL

A very convenient stool for use in milking the cow in yard or field is shown in the cut. It is merely a onelegged stool to which is attached four straps connecting with a broad strap that is buckled around the waist. The stool is quickly fastened to the milker and is always in a position so one can sit down anywhere. Such a stool with a short leg would also be useful in the garden. Of course, if one pre

MILKING STOOL

ferred four legs instead of one, the stool could be so made, but experience proves that the one-legged kind serves well.

CHEAP MILKING STOOL

A cheap and very useful milking stool is made of the reel from which barbed wire has been removed. Saw off the ends so it will set level and

REEL STOOL

cut a board to fit on top. Make a hand hole through the board as shown in the illustration and the stool is ready for use.

KEEP STOOLS CLEAN

Much milk contamination is undoubtedly due to the careless handling of the milk stools. When the milker is through milking one cow he gives the stool a toss, then he picks it up again when he starts to milk the next cow and his hands become more or less contaminated from the stool and from

them the dirt drops into the milk pail during the milking.

When the milking is over, the stool is left in the yard or on the barn floor. It is so easy to make a small rack and to bore holes in the legs of the

STOOL RACK

stool, so that they may be hung up. This keeps them out of the dirt and it is only necessary to brush them off carefully once in a while to keep them scrupulously clean.

The man who is constantly changing his mind usually has little to change.

A USEFUL STOCK CART

Here is a handy transfer cart, made with wheels and crossarch of an old corn plow to carry a hog

or sheep, pigs or a calf. Raise the tongue, which lets the rear end on ground, then drive in the animal,

HANG BAR

TRANSFER CART FOR SMALL ANIMALS

shut the gate, pull tongue down and you have your load ready to fasten to a wagon.

HOW TO STAKE OUT STOCK

A convenient and simple contrivance so that no harm can come to the animal is to drive two stakes several feet apart and stretch a rope or wire on

which a ring is placed. To this ring fasten halter strap. The animal can graze up and down on both sides without tangle or injury. The ring slides, and the stretched wire will give some.

FEED BOX FOR FIELD

A handy feed box for use in open lots or when steers are being fed upon grass is shown in the

TUB FEED BOX

cut. Cut a barrel in two and strengthen the halves by placing a frame of two boards across the inside, as shown in this sketch. This will prevent the tub being smashed and will allow four animals to eat out of the trough without bothering each other unnecessarily. It is important that a

very strong barrel be selected and that the hoops be nailed to each stave.

Be advis'd;

Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot
That it do singe yourself: we may outrun,
By violent swiftness, that which we run at,
And lose by over-running.-Henry VIII.

Have more than thou showest,
Speak less than thou knowest,
Lend less than thou owest,
Ride more than thou goest,

Learn more than thou trowest,

Set less than thou throwest.-King Lear.

Use or practice of a thing is the best master.