Homemade Contrivances and How to Make Them: 1001 Labor-Saving Devices for Farm, Garden, Dairy, and Workshop

Farm ConveniencesBin for Oats     3Fastenings for Cows     4Movable Nests for Hens     5How to Get Rid of Straw     7The Management of Young Bulls     9A Convenient Ice-Hook     11Hints for the Workshop     11A Non-Patented Barrel Header     13Building Ribless Boats     15To Mend a Broken Tug     18Business Habits     19Hay Racks     21How to Extricate a Mired Animal     23How to Save and Keep Manure     24Grinding Tools     27A Method of Hanging Hogs     28Relief for Bog Spavin and Thorough-Pin     29Tool Boxes for Wagons, Etc.     30Making a Hinge     32Shelter for the Head     34How to Level with Square and Plumb Line     35How to Keep Cattle under Cover     36Watering Places for Stock on Level Land     37A Shaving-Horse     38A Milking-Stool     39How to Treat Thrush     40A Western Locust Trap     41Manure Spreading     43Putting Away Tools     45Self-Closing Doors     46Ventilators for Fodder Stacks     47Corn Marker for Uneven Ground     49A Home-Made Harrow     50Clearing Land by Blasting     51Preventable Losses on the Farm     56A Cradle for Drawing a Boat     58Feed-Rack for Sheep     59How to Manage Night-Soil     60The Use of Lime in Blasting     62A Water and Feed Trough     63The Construction of Stalls     64Hog-Killing Implements-Ringing     66How to Mix Cement     68Ringing and Handling Bulls     72Sled for Removing Corn Shocks     75A Tagging Trough     76Lime and Lime Kilns     76Fall Fallowing     80Unloading Corn     81Stone Boats     82A Dump Cart     83To Prevent Washing of Hill-Sides     84A Log Mink-Trap     86Plowing From the Inside of the Field     87A Wire-Fence Tightener     89Planting Corn-A Marker     90Feed Trough and Halter     93The Horse-Show and Its Application     93How to Make a Fishing Scow     95Crows and Scarecrows     98Flood Fence     101Clearing Slough Land     101How to Dress a Beef     103A Farm Cart     105Braces for a Gate Post     107Whipple-Trees for Plowing Corn Safely     108What Trees to Plant for Fuel and Timber     109To Steady Portable Mills     110Splitting Rails and Posts     110A Mixture of Grasses     112Hitching a Crib-Biter     113How to Increase Vegetable Matter in the Soil     114Open Links     115Care of the Root Crops     116Trap for Sheep-Killing Dogs     117How to Use a File Properly     120A Mitre-Box     123The Manure Harvest     124Fastening Cattle with Bows     125The Preservation of Wood     128A Nest for Egg-Eating Hens     129Plowing Gear for a Kicking Mule     130A Leaf Fork     130Preservation of the Wheat Ground     131How to Drive a Horse-Shoe Nail     133Screw-Drivers     134To Prevent Cows Sucking Themselves      136Abuse of Barn Cellars     136Hay-Rack and Manger     139A Barn Basket     139The Treatment of Kicking Cows     140How to Build a Boat-House     141Waste Lands-Make Them Useful     143A Rat-Guard     145A Crupper-Pad for Horses     145A Dam for a Fish Pond     146A Wagon Jack     148Will You Feed Hay or Wood?     149A Brace for a Kicking Horse     150How to Save Liquid Manure     151An Open Shed for Feeding     153Shade for Horses' Eyes     154Test All Seeds-Important     155A Field Roller     157A Portable Slop Barrel     157Where and How to Apply Fertilizers     158A Mill for Crushing Bones     159Lime and Limestone     160A Farm Wheelbarrow     162To Prevent the Balling of Horses     163To Prevent Cattle Throwing Fences     164Feed Boxes     165A Cattle Tie     167A Beef Raiser     168A Cedar Stem Soil-Stirrer     169A Hint for Pig-Killing     170Mending Broken Tools     170A Large Feed-Rack     172Barn Door Fastening     173A Fork Stable Scraper     174A Method of Curing Hay     175Granary Conveniences     176A Non-Slipping Chain for Boulders     178A Pitchfork Holder     179A Convenient Hog Loader     180A Home-Made Roller     181A Land Scraper     181A Home-Made Rag Holder     183A Safety Egg-Carrier     184A Bush-Roller     186Brood Sow Pens     187A Rabbit Trap     188Wooden Stable Floor     189A Rail Holder or "Grip"     191A Cheap and Durable Grindstone-Box and Hangers     192A "Ladder" for Loading Corn     194Protecting Outlet of Drains     195A Log Boat     196Cheap and Durable Wagon Seats     197A Bag-Holder on Platform Scales     198Making Board Drains     200Put Things in Their Places     201Water-Spout and Stock-Trough     203A Desirable Milking Shed     204Wear Plate for Harness Tugs and Collars     205Potable Water Fence     206Ditch Cleaner and Deepener     206How to Build a Dam     208Driving Hop and Other Poles     209A Convenient Grain Box     210A Road-Scraper     211Aids in Digging Root Crops     212The Wood-Lot in Winter     213Swinging-Stall Fronts     215Save All Corn Fodder Everywhere     216Improved Brush Rake     217Digging Muck and Peat     219Cleaner for Horses' Hoofs     220Cold Weather Shelter for Stock Profitable     220Good Stone Troughs or Tanks     221Artificial Feeding of Lambs     223A Convenient Bailed Box     224Sawdust for Bedding     225A Cheap Ensilage Cart     226Milking and Milking Time     227A Revolving Sheep Hurdle     228Lights in the Barn     230A Nest for Sitting Hens     230Barn-Yard Economy     231A Cheap Manure Shed     232A Sheep Rack     233A Good Picket Pointer     235Sterilizing Oven and Bottle Truck     236Inexpensive Building Construction      239Cover for Sap Buckets     240A Handy Trough     240Substitute for Flood Gate     241Hooks for Shop or Store House     242Improving a Pasture Spring     242A General Farm Barn     243Handy Clod Crusher and Leveler     244Giving Seeds an Early Start in the Garden     245A Post Anchor     245Stoneboat from Two Boards     246A Handy Garden Barrow     247Homemade Trucks and Wheels     248A Roller from Mowing Machine Wheels     248Making a Picket Fence Hen-Tight     249Barrel Strawberry Culture     250Farm AppliancesRacks, Mangers, Stanchions and TroughsRacks and Feed Boxes for Horses     253Covered Horse Manger     254Feeding Trough and Hay Shute     255Device for Box Stall     256Various Cattle Stanchions     258Feeding Crib for Pork-Producing Sections     263Sheep Rack and Feed Box     264A Barrel Rack     265Improvements in Pig Troughs     266A Plank Trough     269A Protected Trough     270Troughs for the Pasture      271Improved Grain Bin     273Straw Baler     273Watering Troughs for Stock     274A Guarded Horse Trough     278Box for Watering Pails     279Home-Made Heating Vat     279Vehicles, Rollers, Harrows and MarkersA Cart for Breaking Colts     281A Home-Made Cart     283Apparatus for Lifting a Wagon-Body     284Jack for Wagon Box     285Serviceable Wagon-Jacks     286Adjustable Wagon Seat     287Lubricating Axles     287A Light Sleigh or "Jumper"     288A Substantial Sled     289A Dump Sled     291A Triple Land Roller     291A Cheaper Triple Roller     293A Double Land Roller     293Stalk Leveler     294Useful Clod Crusher     295A Brush Harrow     296An Improved Harrow Frame     297Land-Markers     298Combined Marker and Clod-Crusher     301A Land Leveler     302Small Tools and AppliancesBag Holders     303Handling Potatoes     306Grindstones and Frames      308Tool Holder     310How to Repair a Grindstone     310A Wooden Manger Fork     311Home-Made and Useful Chaff Forks     312Stable Scraper and Broom     313A Straw or Hay Hook     314Fork for Handling Stones     314Salt Box for Stock     315Safety Single-Tree     315Root Pulpers and Cutters     316Root Washers     318Clamps and Stools for Repairing Harness     320A Box Saw-Horse     322Long Saw-Bucks     323How to Tie a Bag     324A Home-Made Rake Head     325Working Building Stone     325Block for Sand-Paper     327Appliances for the Barn, Pasture and DairyConvenient Stable Ventilator     328Light Needed in Barns     329Lanterns in the Barn     330Safety Stick for Mare's Halter     330To Keep a Horse from Jumping     331Coupling Horses in the Pasture     332A Simple Tether     333Chain Cattle Tie     334An Unpatented Calf Feeder     335Two Kinds of Milking Stools     336Vat for Deep Setting Milk     337Home-Made Butter-Worker     338Reins for Driving Oxen     339Vat for Dipping Sheep     340Sheep-Shearing Bench     341Ear Tag Punch for Marking Animals     341Sewing Up Wounds in Animals     342Wells, Pumps, Cisterns and FiltersWindlass and Tilting Bucket     343Well-Curb of Staves     344Hemlock for Well-Curbs     345Securing the Well-Bucket     346Curb with a Bucket Shelf     346Covered Well-Curbs     347Impure Water in Wells     349Hook for Cleaning Wells     350A Non-Freezing Pump     351Agitation of Air in Wells     351Deepening Wells     353Digging a Well     355How to Build a Cistern     355Water in the Barn Yard     357Wooden Water Pipes     358Filters for Family Use     359Connecting Cisterns     362Build and Dimension of Cisterns     363Cisterns with Filters     364Appliances for Handling Hay and Corn FodderRevolving Horse Rake     367Care of Mowing Machines     370Sweep for Gathering Hay     371Hauling Hay or Stalks     372Derrick for Stacking     373Hay Carrier for Horse Fork     374Hay Barracks     375Supports for Stacks     378Home-Made Hay Press     379Twisting Hay and Straw     381Standard for Corn Shocks     385Ventilator for Stacks     386Bench for Husking     387Corn-Stalk Band     388Convenient Fodder Carrier     389Stump-Pullers, Derricks and SlingsStump-Pullers     390Derricks for Farm Use     393Slings for Hoisting Heavy Objects     394Derrick for a Cellar     396Lever Apparatus for Lifting     397A Home-Made Horse-Power     398Preparing and Handling FertilizersHauling Barnyard Manure     400Implement for Fining Manure     402Muck and Peat     403How to Burn Lime     404Value of Gas Lime     406Burning Clay and Sods     407Converting Straw into Manure     408Manure from Marl and Shells     409Making Fertilizer from Bones     409Appliances for the Garden and OrchardPaper Plant Protector     411Muslin-Covered Plant Screen     412Protected Plant Label     413Poles for Beans and Other Climbers     414Potting Strawberry Plants     414Stand for Berry Baskets     415Tube for Watering Plants     416Movable Trellis for Grapes     417Tool for Cutting Edgings     417Substitute for Pea Brush     418Trellis for Tomatoes     418Tools for Killing Weeds     420Various Fruit Pickers     421Fruit Ladders     424Japanese Pruning Saw     426Rabbits and Mice in the Orchard     426Implements Used in Cranberry Culture     428Appliances for Slaughtering Hogs and Curing the MeatSticking Hogs     430A Better Way     430Heating the Water for Scalding     431Scalding Tubs and Vats     432Hanging and Cleaning the Hogs     436Packing Pork     438Fences, Gates and BridgesRail and Other Primitive Wood FencesVirginia Rail Fence     441Laying a Rail Fence     443Staking and Wiring     444A Fence of "Stakes and Riders"     445A Pole Fence     446Fences for Soil Liable to Heave     447Other Primitive Fences     449Stone and Sod FencesHow a Stone Wall Should Be Built     452Building a Stone Fence     452Truck for Moving Stones     454Reinforcing a Stone Wall     454A Composite Fence     455A Prairie Sod Fence     456Board FencesBuilding Board Fences     458Fences for Land Subject to Overflow     460A Fence Board Holder     463Reinforcing a Board Fence     464Picket FencesA Good Garden Fence     465A Southern Picket Fence     465Fences of Split Pickets     467Ornamental Picket Fences     468Rustic Picket Fences     470Light Picket Fences     471Hand-Made Wire and Picket Fences     473Fence of Wire and Pickets     475Barb-Wire FenceBarb-Wire Fence     477Steel Fence Staples     483How to Get Barb Wire Fence     484Unreeling and Stretching Barb Wire     485Wire Stretchers     489Splicing Barb Wires      492Building Wire Fences on Uneven Ground     494Fences of Barb Wire and BoardsCombined Wire and Board Fence     495A Bracketed Fence     497Dog-Proof Fences     500HedgesThe Best Hedge Plants     501Planting and Care of Osage Hedges     502Hedges for the South     507Ornamental Hedges and Screens     508Portable Fences and HedgesPortable Board Fences     509Portable Fences of Poles or Wire     511Portable Fences for Windbreaks     513Portable Poultry Fences     514Portable Folding Fence     517Temporary Wire and Iron Fences     518Fences for Streams and GulliesFlood Fences     519Portable Tide Fence     527Watering Place in a Creek     528Making and Setting PostsMaking Fence Posts     529A Post Holder     530Driving Fence Posts By Hand     531To Drive Fence Posts Without Splitting     532A Powerful Post Driver     534Setting a Gate Post     537Live Posts     539Mending a Split Post     541Hook for Wiring Posts     542Drawing Fence Posts     543Lifting Posts By Hand     544Splicing Fence Posts     545Application of Wood Preservatives     546Iron Fence Posts     548Gates and FasteningsWooden Gates     551A Very Substantial Farm Gate     555A Strong and Neat Gate     556Light Iron Gates     557Self-Closing Gates     559Gate for Village Lot     562A Chinese Door or Gate Spring     562Lifting Gates     563Rustic Gates     569Balance Gates     571Gate for Snowy Weather     572West India Farm Gates     573Double Gates     577Double-Latched Gates     580Improved Slide Gate     581A Combined Hinge and Sliding Gate     582Gates of Wood and Wire     584A Good and Cheap Farm Gate     585An Improved Wire Gate     586Taking up the Sag in Gates     588Good Gate Latches     591Top Hinge of Farm Gate     595Gateways in Wire Fence     596Wickets and StilesIron Wickets     598Wooden Wickets      599Stiles for Wire-Fences     602Fence LawFencing Out or Fencing In     604Division Fences     605Highway Fences     607What is a Legal Fence?     608Railroad Fences     609Country Bridges and CulvertsStrength of Bridges     610Braces and Trusses     611Abutments, Piers and Railings     614Bridges for Gullies     616Ornamental Bridges     618Road Culverts     619