American Agriculturist, for the farm, garden and household . Fig. 1.—WAGON OR CART RACK FOP. LEAVES. floor above his stables and sties, and through ashute drops them upon the stable floors as theyare wanted. Leaves makeclean, warm beddingfor all his animals, and add to the bulk and val-ue of his compost heap. They furnish remuner-ative work to his men when the harvests aregathered, and thus are an advantage to labor-ers. They make good bedding, and thus allowhim to sell straw. This is an important itemwhere straw is worth $15 a ton and are somewhat difficult to handle, but ifgat
American Agriculturist, for the farm, garden and household . Fig. 1.—WAGON OR CART RACK FOP. LEAVES. floor above his stables and sties, and through ashute drops them upon the stable floors as theyare wanted. Leaves makeclean, warm beddingfor all his animals, and add to the bulk and val-ue of his compost heap. They furnish remuner-ative work to his men when the harvests aregathered, and thus are an advantage to labor-ers. They make good bedding, and thus allowhim to sell straw. This is an important itemwhere straw is worth $15 a ton and are somewhat difficult to handle, but ifgathered in heaps a week or two before cartingthey become quite compact, and, with a largebasket and rake, are readily loaded upon thecart. A rack, with flaring boards extendingabout two feet beyond the sides and ends of thecart body, is a very convenient article for cart-ing the leaves. We give an engraving, figure. Fig. 2.—SLED RACK. 1, of a rack in use upon the farm of Reisig &Hexamer, of New Castle, N. Y. The two end boards upon which the rack is built just fit intothe wagon box. The rack is made entirely of4-inch strips of l|«-inch pine, fastened togetherby cheap iron bolts with nuts, and has a spreadof nearly 7 feet The leaves arc loaded andunloaded with dung-forks, and, of course, trod-den down as they are thrown into the the way from the woods to the barn-yard lies over grass fields and lanes on whichthere is but little bare ground and few stones, arack, or hopper-shaped rack, such as is shownin fig. 2, made to fit a wood-shod sled, will befound very handy, on account of its being solow and easy to load. It is fastened on by lowstakes in the place of the ordinary sled stakes. Rotations for New England and the East. desideratum of Eastern farming isa good system of rotation. It h not desirableto have all farmers adopt any one system, forthere are circumstances i
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