. American farming and stock raising, with useful facts for the household, devoted to farming in all its departments. Agriculture. 1928 Tools for Tile Draining. — In works on draining two forms of draining scoops are figured, called the "push scoop," Fig. 4, and the "pull scoop, "Fig. 5, and dii-ections are given to stand on the surface, near the edge of the ditch, and with these tools prepare a bed for the tiles. A tile-hook is then used to lower the tile and place them in the trench. A trial of this method of tile- laying will soon demonstrate its impracticabil
. American farming and stock raising, with useful facts for the household, devoted to farming in all its departments. Agriculture. 1928 Tools for Tile Draining. — In works on draining two forms of draining scoops are figured, called the "push scoop," Fig. 4, and the "pull scoop, "Fig. 5, and dii-ections are given to stand on the surface, near the edge of the ditch, and with these tools prepare a bed for the tiles. A tile-hook is then used to lower the tile and place them in the trench. A trial of this method of tile- laying will soon demonstrate its impracticability, as a good drain cannot be made in that way. The " pull ' and the "push" scoops are awkward tools to manage imder any conditions; but when a person attempts to use them, at long range, in the bottom of a three-foot ditch, when standing on the sur- face of the ground, they are found to be useless. The push scoop, when loaded, is heavy on the point, and rolls in the hands, while the pull scoop trembles and springs when it meets with an obstruction, and from the posi- tion of the shank at the end of the blade they are both of them weak, and easily broken. As a scoop having the form of the lower half of the tile was found desira- ble for making a. groove in the bottom of the ditch in which the tiles arc laid, after a number of experiments I changed the position of the handle, making a scoop of the form represented in Fig. 6, which has proved to be not only a useful but an indispensable implement in tile laying. As it is used by a per- ' ' '''' ? son standing in the ditch it has a shorter, lighter handle, and on the whole is^ a light, well-balanced tool, with the push and pull characters combined, and without any of the disadvantages of either of the old forms. Three or four sizes of this scoop, adapted to the different sizes of tiles, will be found convenient, with handles (not represented full length in the figure) from 4i to 6 feet long, and about the si
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