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Homemade Contrivances and How to Make Them 1001 Labor-Saving Devices for Farm, Garden, Dairy, and Workshop

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ISBN-10: 1602390185

ISBN-13: 9781602390188

Edition: 2007

Authors: Skyhorse Publishing

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The traditional American devices contained in this intriguing compilation date from an era long before milking machines, pesticide sprayers, and industrial hay bailers. Yet the simple inventions described for doing everything from managing young bulls to protecting drain outlets can be just as useful for today's farmer as they were for the homesteaders of over a century ago. Discover how to make such items as a movable nest for hens, a ribless boat, a contraption to extricate a mired animal, a farm cart with adjustable racks for larger loads, a wire fence tightener, a fruit picker, a grindstone set and frame, and much more. This book is a boon for the rancher, farmer, or anyone who loves…    
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Book details

List price: $16.99
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 4/17/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 640
Size: 5.25" wide x 7.50" long x 1.40" tall
Weight: 1.364
Language: English

Farm Conveniences
Bin for Oats
Fastenings for Cows
Movable Nests for Hens
How to Get Rid of Straw
The Management of Young Bulls
A Convenient Ice-Hook
Hints for the Workshop
A Non-Patented Barrel Header
Building Ribless Boats
To Mend a Broken Tug
Business Habits
Hay Racks
How to Extricate a Mired Animal
How to Save and Keep Manure
Grinding Tools
A Method of Hanging Hogs
Relief for Bog Spavin and Thorough-Pin
Tool Boxes for Wagons, Etc.
Making a Hinge
Shelter for the Head
How to Level with Square and Plumb Line
How to Keep Cattle under Cover
Watering Places for Stock on Level Land
A Shaving-Horse
A Milking-Stool
How to Treat Thrush
A Western Locust Trap
Manure Spreading
Putting Away Tools
Self-Closing Doors
Ventilators for Fodder Stacks
Corn Marker for Uneven Ground
A Home-Made Harrow
Clearing Land by Blasting
Preventable Losses on the Farm
A Cradle for Drawing a Boat
Feed-Rack for Sheep
How to Manage Night-Soil
The Use of Lime in Blasting
A Water and Feed Trough
The Construction of Stalls
Hog-Killing Implements-Ringing
How to Mix Cement
Ringing and Handling Bulls
Sled for Removing Corn Shocks
A Tagging Trough
Lime and Lime Kilns
Fall Fallowing
Unloading Corn
Stone Boats
A Dump Cart
To Prevent Washing of Hill-Sides
A Log Mink-Trap
Plowing From the Inside of the Field
A Wire-Fence Tightener
Planting Corn-A Marker
Feed Trough and Halter
The Horse-Show and Its Application
How to Make a Fishing Scow
Crows and Scarecrows
Flood Fence
Clearing Slough Land
How to Dress a Beef
A Farm Cart
Braces for a Gate Post
Whipple-Trees for Plowing Corn Safely
What Trees to Plant for Fuel and Timber
To Steady Portable Mills
Splitting Rails and Posts
A Mixture of Grasses
Hitching a Crib-Biter
How to Increase Vegetable Matter in the Soil
Open Links
Care of the Root Crops
Trap for Sheep-Killing Dogs
How to Use a File Properly
A Mitre-Box
The Manure Harvest
Fastening Cattle with Bows
The Preservation of Wood
A Nest for Egg-Eating Hens
Plowing Gear for a Kicking Mule
A Leaf Fork
Preservation of the Wheat Ground
How to Drive a Horse-Shoe Nail
Screw-Drivers
To Prevent Cows Sucking Themselves
Abuse of Barn Cellars
Hay-Rack and Manger
A Barn Basket
The Treatment of Kicking Cows
How to Build a Boat-House
Waste Lands-Make Them Useful
A Rat-Guard
A Crupper-Pad for Horses
A Dam for a Fish Pond
A Wagon Jack
Will You Feed Hay or Wood?
A Brace for a Kicking Horse
How to Save Liquid Manure
An Open Shed for Feeding
Shade for Horses' Eyes
Test All Seeds-Important
A Field Roller
A Portable Slop Barrel
Where and How to Apply Fertilizers
A Mill for Crushing Bones
Lime and Limestone
A Farm Wheelbarrow
To Prevent the Balling of Horses
To Prevent Cattle Throwing Fences
Feed Boxes
A Cattle Tie
A Beef Raiser
A Cedar Stem Soil-Stirrer
A Hint for Pig-Killing
Mending Broken Tools
A Large Feed-Rack
Barn Door Fastening
A Fork Stable Scraper
A Method of Curing Hay
Granary Conveniences
A Non-Slipping Chain for Boulders
A Pitchfork Holder
A Convenient Hog Loader
A Home-Made Roller
A Land Scraper
A Home-Made Rag Holder
A Safety Egg-Carrier
A Bush-Roller
Brood Sow Pens
A Rabbit Trap
Wooden Stable Floor
A Rail Holder or "Grip"
A Cheap and Durable Grindstone-Box and Hangers
A "Ladder" for Loading Corn
Protecting Outlet of Drains
A Log Boat
Cheap and Durable Wagon Seats
A Bag-Holder on Platform Scales
Making Board Drains
Put Things in Their Places
Water-Spout and Stock-Trough
A Desirable Milking Shed
Wear Plate for Harness Tugs and Collars
Potable Water Fence
Ditch Cleaner and Deepener
How to Build a Dam
Driving Hop and Other Poles
A Convenient Grain Box
A Road-Scraper
Aids in Digging Root Crops
The Wood-Lot in Winter
Swinging-Stall Fronts
Save All Corn Fodder Everywhere
Improved Brush Rake
Digging Muck and Peat
Cleaner for Horses' Hoofs
Cold Weather Shelter for Stock Profitable
Good Stone Troughs or Tanks
Artificial Feeding of Lambs
A Convenient Bailed Box
Sawdust for Bedding
A Cheap Ensilage Cart
Milking and Milking Time
A Revolving Sheep Hurdle
Lights in the Barn
A Nest for Sitting Hens
Barn-Yard Economy
A Cheap Manure Shed
A Sheep Rack
A Good Picket Pointer
Sterilizing Oven and Bottle Truck
Inexpensive Building Construction
Cover for Sap Buckets
A Handy Trough
Substitute for Flood Gate
Hooks for Shop or Store House
Improving a Pasture Spring
A General Farm Barn
Handy Clod Crusher and Leveler
Giving Seeds an Early Start in the Garden
A Post Anchor
Stoneboat from Two Boards
A Handy Garden Barrow
Homemade Trucks and Wheels
A Roller from Mowing Machine Wheels
Making a Picket Fence Hen-Tight
Barrel Strawberry Culture
Farm Appliances
Racks, Mangers, Stanchions and Troughs
Racks and Feed Boxes for Horses
Covered Horse Manger
Feeding Trough and Hay Shute
Device for Box Stall
Various Cattle Stanchions
Feeding Crib for Pork-Producing Sections
Sheep Rack and Feed Box
A Barrel Rack
Improvements in Pig Troughs
A Plank Trough
A Protected Trough
Troughs for the Pasture
Improved Grain Bin
Straw Baler
Watering Troughs for Stock
A Guarded Horse Trough
Box for Watering Pails
Home-Made Heating Vat
Vehicles, Rollers, Harrows and Markers
A Cart for Breaking Colts
A Home-Made Cart
Apparatus for Lifting a Wagon-Body
Jack for Wagon Box
Serviceable Wagon-Jacks
Adjustable Wagon Seat
Lubricating Axles
A Light Sleigh or "Jumper"
A Substantial Sled
A Dump Sled
A Triple Land Roller
A Cheaper Triple Roller
A Double Land Roller
Stalk Leveler
Useful Clod Crusher
A Brush Harrow
An Improved Harrow Frame
Land-Markers
Combined Marker and Clod-Crusher
A Land Leveler
Small Tools and Appliances
Bag Holders
Handling Potatoes
Grindstones and Frames
Tool Holder
How to Repair a Grindstone
A Wooden Manger Fork
Home-Made and Useful Chaff Forks
Stable Scraper and Broom
A Straw or Hay Hook
Fork for Handling Stones
Salt Box for Stock
Safety Single-Tree
Root Pulpers and Cutters
Root Washers
Clamps and Stools for Repairing Harness
A Box Saw-Horse
Long Saw-Bucks
How to Tie a Bag
A Home-Made Rake Head
Working Building Stone
Block for Sand-Paper
Appliances for the Barn, Pasture and Dairy
Convenient Stable Ventilator
Light Needed in Barns
Lanterns in the Barn
Safety Stick for Mare's Halter
To Keep a Horse from Jumping
Coupling Horses in the Pasture
A Simple Tether
Chain Cattle Tie
An Unpatented Calf Feeder
Two Kinds of Milking Stools
Vat for Deep Setting Milk
Home-Made Butter-Worker
Reins for Driving Oxen
Vat for Dipping Sheep
Sheep-Shearing Bench
Ear Tag Punch for Marking Animals
Sewing Up Wounds in Animals
Wells, Pumps, Cisterns and Filters
Windlass and Tilting Bucket
Well-Curb of Staves
Hemlock for Well-Curbs
Securing the Well-Bucket
Curb with a Bucket Shelf
Covered Well-Curbs
Impure Water in Wells
Hook for Cleaning Wells
A Non-Freezing Pump
Agitation of Air in Wells
Deepening Wells
Digging a Well
How to Build a Cistern
Water in the Barn Yard
Wooden Water Pipes
Filters for Family Use
Connecting Cisterns
Build and Dimension of Cisterns
Cisterns with Filters
Appliances for Handling Hay and Corn Fodder
Revolving Horse Rake
Care of Mowing Machines
Sweep for Gathering Hay
Hauling Hay or Stalks
Derrick for Stacking
Hay Carrier for Horse Fork
Hay Barracks
Supports for Stacks
Home-Made Hay Press
Twisting Hay and Straw
Standard for Corn Shocks
Ventilator for Stacks
Bench for Husking
Corn-Stalk Band
Convenient Fodder Carrier
Stump-Pullers, Derricks and Slings
Stump-Pullers
Derricks for Farm Use
Slings for Hoisting Heavy Objects
Derrick for a Cellar
Lever Apparatus for Lifting
A Home-Made Horse-Power
Preparing and Handling Fertilizers
Hauling Barnyard Manure
Implement for Fining Manure
Muck and Peat
How to Burn Lime
Value of Gas Lime
Burning Clay and Sods
Converting Straw into Manure
Manure from Marl and Shells
Making Fertilizer from Bones
Appliances for the Garden and Orchard
Paper Plant Protector
Muslin-Covered Plant Screen
Protected Plant Label
Poles for Beans and Other Climbers
Potting Strawberry Plants
Stand for Berry Baskets
Tube for Watering Plants
Movable Trellis for Grapes
Tool for Cutting Edgings
Substitute for Pea Brush
Trellis for Tomatoes
Tools for Killing Weeds
Various Fruit Pickers
Fruit Ladders
Japanese Pruning Saw
Rabbits and Mice in the Orchard
Implements Used in Cranberry Culture
Appliances for Slaughtering Hogs and Curing the Meat
Sticking Hogs
A Better Way
Heating the Water for Scalding
Scalding Tubs and Vats
Hanging and Cleaning the Hogs
Packing Pork
Fences, Gates and Bridges
Rail and Other Primitive Wood Fences
Virginia Rail Fence
Laying a Rail Fence
Staking and Wiring
A Fence of "Stakes and Riders"
A Pole Fence
Fences for Soil Liable to Heave
Other Primitive Fences
Stone and Sod Fences
How a Stone Wall Should Be Built
Building a Stone Fence
Truck for Moving Stones
Reinforcing a Stone Wall
A Composite Fence
A Prairie Sod Fence
Board Fences
Building Board Fences
Fences for Land Subject to Overflow
A Fence Board Holder
Reinforcing a Board Fence
Picket Fences
A Good Garden Fence
A Southern Picket Fence
Fences of Split Pickets
Ornamental Picket Fences
Rustic Picket Fences
Light Picket Fences
Hand-Made Wire and Picket Fences
Fence of Wire and Pickets
Barb-Wire Fence
Barb-Wire Fence
Steel Fence Staples
How to Get Barb Wire Fence
Unreeling and Stretching Barb Wire
Wire Stretchers
Splicing Barb Wires
Building Wire Fences on Uneven Ground
Fences of Barb Wire and Boards
Combined Wire and Board Fence
A Bracketed Fence
Dog-Proof Fences
Hedges
The Best Hedge Plants
Planting and Care of Osage Hedges
Hedges for the South
Ornamental Hedges and Screens
Portable Fences and Hedges
Portable Board Fences
Portable Fences of Poles or Wire
Portable Fences for Windbreaks
Portable Poultry Fences
Portable Folding Fence
Temporary Wire and Iron Fences
Fences for Streams and Gullies
Flood Fences
Portable Tide Fence
Watering Place in a Creek
Making and Setting Posts
Making Fence Posts
A Post Holder
Driving Fence Posts By Hand
To Drive Fence Posts Without Splitting
A Powerful Post Driver
Setting a Gate Post
Live Posts
Mending a Split Post
Hook for Wiring Posts
Drawing Fence Posts
Lifting Posts By Hand
Splicing Fence Posts
Application of Wood Preservatives
Iron Fence Posts
Gates and Fastenings
Wooden Gates
A Very Substantial Farm Gate
A Strong and Neat Gate
Light Iron Gates
Self-Closing Gates
Gate for Village Lot
A Chinese Door or Gate Spring
Lifting Gates
Rustic Gates
Balance Gates
Gate for Snowy Weather
West India Farm Gates
Double Gates
Double-Latched Gates
Improved Slide Gate
A Combined Hinge and Sliding Gate
Gates of Wood and Wire
A Good and Cheap Farm Gate
An Improved Wire Gate
Taking up the Sag in Gates
Good Gate Latches
Top Hinge of Farm Gate
Gateways in Wire Fence
Wickets and Stiles
Iron Wickets
Wooden Wickets
Stiles for Wire-Fences
Fence Law
Fencing Out or Fencing In
Division Fences
Highway Fences
What is a Legal Fence?
Railroad Fences
Country Bridges and Culverts
Strength of Bridges
Braces and Trusses
Abutments, Piers and Railings
Bridges for Gullies
Ornamental Bridges
Road Culverts