INVENTIONS AND APPLIANCES OF INTEREST TO AGRICULTURE.

Otago Witness, Issue 3385, 29 January 1919, Page 55

INVENTIONS AND APPLIANCES OF INTEREST TO AGRICULTURE.

C. J. Lvkde,. Macdonald College, Quebec, Canada.

STACK ROOF.

The boards of this roof are held in place without nails; the lower end of each board is attached to the end of two wires, and the boards above these . are held by

means of hooks, illustrated at the left. The boards overlap to exclude rain and snow. —W. It. Arnold, Geneva, Nebraska. (U.Sr Patent 1,278,559.) TRACTOR ATTACHMENT. The rear wheels of this car are here replaced by the screw movement of worm gears which drive two pairs of tractor wheels on each side. The two halves of the frame slide vertically, one on the

other, and permit the wheels on either side to move up and down independently of those on the other. —0. R. Hotchkiss. Oakland, California. (U.S. Patent 1,278,658.) BAG FASTENER. These fasteners are used on the open corners of bags previously sewed across the top. The bags are filled with grain through the open corners, and the fas-

teners are slipped on and dosed. They

seal the bag, and leave the free corners to serve as handles.—R. L. Callahan, Ky. (U.S. Patent 1,242,139.) ROAD DRAG. The new feature of this road drag is that the operator, by merely shifting his weight, can lift the surfacing blade to pass over an obstruction or to deposit gathering material. He does this by standing on

the small side platform behind the large wheel on, the straight side. The drag can be used with either side up. —E. L. Stevens, Loveland, Colorado'. (U.S. Patent 1,277,661.) CHICKEN BEHEADER. The heavy upper blade of this device is attached to a heavy handle, and slides between two lower blades. The chicken's head, placed between the upper and lower

blades, is severed by a quick downward movement of the upper blade.—Andrew Carlson, Mullen, Neb. (U.S. Patent 1,271,016.)

PRESERVATION OF VEGETABLES. Farmers' Bulletin 881, "Preservation of Vegetables by Fermentation and Salting,"

describes this method of preserving cab bage, corn, beans, and many other vege

tables. It can be had for five ',ents by writing to Superintendent of Documents, Washington, D.C.