. The American farm and stock manual. Agriculture; Home economics. EUSTIC SEAT.—FIG. 1. help. For covering the silo we used hemlock boards and tarred paper, no other weighting being applied nntil some three or four weeks later, when we stored a quantity of dry corn stalks upon the top of the silo. Upon opening the silo we found the fodder in a perfect state of pre- sei'vation, the ensilage showing no mold, except a little on top, just under the cover. In preparing the fodder, wo employed a two-horse power to run our cutter, the latter being provided with a carrier for delivering the fodder in
. The American farm and stock manual. Agriculture; Home economics. EUSTIC SEAT.—FIG. 1. help. For covering the silo we used hemlock boards and tarred paper, no other weighting being applied nntil some three or four weeks later, when we stored a quantity of dry corn stalks upon the top of the silo. Upon opening the silo we found the fodder in a perfect state of pre- sei'vation, the ensilage showing no mold, except a little on top, just under the cover. In preparing the fodder, wo employed a two-horse power to run our cutter, the latter being provided with a carrier for delivering the fodder in the silo. liHSf ic Seats for tlie La^vii.—The garden and lawn are incompletely furnished if they are not sup- plied with some kind of seats whereon one may reoline at ease. Fortunately these seats need not be costly; it would, indeed, show bad tis^te to have them so. Something easy, graceful, fan- tastic, rustic— something that the sunshine or the wind will not harm, or have its beauty destroyed by the rain. The materials for such seals are nearly always at hand—at least on every farmer's prem- ises. All that is required is a little skill and patience to construct them. The branches of the trees may be bent and shaped into tasteful chairs, and any desired form given to them. The branches of the red cedar tree and wild grape vine furnish the best of material for this style of rustic seat. Our illus- tration. Fig. 1, shows a very pretty chair made in this manner. A few pine boards cut out and nailed together, represented in the engraving. Fig. 2, will form a cheap and convenient rustic seat, which will be admired for its very simplicity and quaintness. A favorite shade tree on the lawn may be surrounded with seats so at- tached that one in sitting may lean against the trunk Our illustration, Fig. 3, will give a good idea of how seats of this kind may be constructed. Of materials there are plenty around almost every homestead- tasteful labor only is wanting to make appropr
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