American Agriculturist, for the farm, garden and household . Whetstone Holder and —In using a stone for sharpening a scythe, beginners or inex-perienced persons often cut their hands against the ,again, the best stones are usually fragile and likely tobe broken into piecestoo short to hold in thehand. We bought inLoudon a little instru-ment useful in both ofthe above cases. Fig. a little ring of zinc-coated iron, with fourflanges or prongs and atightening screw on oneside. This is slippedover a wooden handlecut out in the centre likea clothes-pin. (fig. 1). Awhole stone, o
American Agriculturist, for the farm, garden and household . Whetstone Holder and —In using a stone for sharpening a scythe, beginners or inex-perienced persons often cut their hands against the ,again, the best stones are usually fragile and likely tobe broken into piecestoo short to hold in thehand. We bought inLoudon a little instru-ment useful in both ofthe above cases. Fig. a little ring of zinc-coated iron, with fourflanges or prongs and atightening screw on oneside. This is slippedover a wooden handlecut out in the centre likea clothes-pin. (fig. 1). Awhole stone, or a broken £• *? half of one, is securely fastened by turning the screw,which enables one to use up fragments, or to use veryshort stones; while the flanges guard the hand frombeing cut, if a wrong movement happens to be made. The Report of the Department of Agriculture for 1866.—This is a volume of about,the size of its predecessors, and in quality of its contentsabove the average of them. It presents one new feature,in having taken to advertisin
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