American Agriculturist, for the farm, garden and household . istant one all the time. Thus a line will bevery nearly straight. This affair, and the difficul-ties attendant upon its use, suggests another im-plement on the same principle, which the writerintends soon to make, thus: Take three sticksexactly 54 feet long, bore a gimlet hole in theexact middle of each, and fasten them togetherwith a long screw or bolt which shall passthrough the ends of two similar sticks, (theyshould he 3-inch pine, 2 inches wide.) Thethree which are fastened together at their cen-tres should now have their extrem
American Agriculturist, for the farm, garden and household . istant one all the time. Thus a line will bevery nearly straight. This affair, and the difficul-ties attendant upon its use, suggests another im-plement on the same principle, which the writerintends soon to make, thus: Take three sticksexactly 54 feet long, bore a gimlet hole in theexact middle of each, and fasten them togetherwith a long screw or bolt which shall passthrough the ends of two similar sticks, (theyshould he 3-inch pine, 2 inches wide.) Thethree which are fastened together at their cen-tres should now have their extremities placedequally distant. They will be exactly 2| feetapart, and should be fastened so by means ofstrips of lath, nailed on six or eight inches fromthe ends. These are then to be sharpened tomarked points just 2J feet apart, and whendone, we have a wheel which will measureone rod at each revolution, and may he pushedbefore one walking, using the two outsidepieces as handles of a wheelbarrow are used. 1868.] AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. •445 The Wild We have the pleasure of presenting in illus-tration of this article an unusually fine repre-sentation of the Willi Goose, which is the mostwidely disseminated and hest known, perhaps,of our large water — fowls It is a birdof striking beauty,both on account ofits brilliancy ofplumage and itsgrace upon the wa-ter. On land it is,like the commongoose, dignifiedlyawkward; but thisawkwardness neverdegenerates intothat blundering un-gainliness whichmakes the domesticspecies a common gooseis no fool, but onlya blunderer. Thewild goose is notonly intelligent be-yond what weshould expect, butapparently philo-sophical ; this isshown in many ways. Almost eveiy one is familiar with the orderin which a flock arrange themselves for a longflight. The most powerful gander is the leader,and cleaves the air, while the others follow inhis wake, usually in two files like a >, one legbeing frequently longer than the other; andfre
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