. Agriculture and the farming business . The gate over this splash-proof hog trough swingsforward and hack Door-siU wheelbarrowbridge made of two boardsand two leather straps Pour swill down the hopperand grcedv hogs will wasteless. SlaKe it down relation of color schemes. For the use of paint not onlybeautifies, but conserves buildings, fences and use of cement.—Cement has come to be one ofthe most important economies of a farm homestead. Everyboy will want to know something about the making of con-crete, and the proper methods of mixing and surfacing. Heshould understand the ma
. Agriculture and the farming business . The gate over this splash-proof hog trough swingsforward and hack Door-siU wheelbarrowbridge made of two boardsand two leather straps Pour swill down the hopperand grcedv hogs will wasteless. SlaKe it down relation of color schemes. For the use of paint not onlybeautifies, but conserves buildings, fences and use of cement.—Cement has come to be one ofthe most important economies of a farm homestead. Everyboy will want to know something about the making of con-crete, and the proper methods of mixing and surfacing. Heshould understand the making of molds, the laying of foun-dation for a cement structure, and the application of cement 672 AGRICULTURE AND to the construction of silos, water-tanks, fence posts,bridges, feeding floors, etc. Rope Tying and Splicing One of the elementary 3et most interesting divisions offarm mechanics is rope tying and splicing. The place of. Teaching colt to lead by ropes. Note the three points of control—head, body and rear at the same time. the rope in farm management is very much the same as therelation of the nail to the builder. Ropes are also widelyused in other occupations, and the lives of many workmenoften depend on the strength of a rope or the security of aknot. THE FARMING BUSINESS 673 The uses of ropes.—Long before farm machinery wasinvented or useful implements invented, rope tying andsplicing held a very important relation to the work of agri-culture. The first harness was made of rope. Joints andsplicings were made with rope long before the day of bolts,rivets and other metal devices for the joining of parts infarm machinery. In spite of the fact that we have to-dayall manner of improved farm machinery we still need theconvenience and economy made possible by the use of therope in knot tying and splicing. Some knots useful on the farm.—Some of the prac-tical rope knots are as follows: the clove-hitch
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