, 1873-05-19
THE FARM AND GARDEN.

| AAA0 0A01&NA@uA&1AANX Oh E&I1n1EakG
Constdered--A Gate on a Caster
Ro2ler--SlidIng on wooc--The Ole
SEving-Gase --- The Doub1e.Rollcl
Sliding Gate, and How it in Con,
Observation-Disclosures Gates md Old
Fashioned Ksars--.rhe weather nnt
the Crops.
/ FFons Our Agricultural Correspondent
l. caAaiPA1os, Ill, May II, 1915
| A good, substantial farm-gato-one that doe
not get out Of order, that will not sag, il eas,
opansd and closed, that is stock is not e1
pensive, aud has little regard to snow-drifts-
| Is 4 DEs1DERATuM
to any farmer. Just such gate "The Earn
and Garden" has sought after for many Ion,
years, and one such hns at length been found
and is now the standard gate for Rural Home
| Il is strange that TIC pass by the simple use
ful things Of this life, and seek for some com
plex, ll-ar1anged affair, and yet, in the end, VI
come back to appreciate the plain, uaeful thing
that va had 80 long overlooked. This ia par
ticularly the case IN regard to far1n-gates- Pat
ent after patent has been taken out for ties.
gates, and the farmers have been swindled
ab libitum, I'D nauseam. This has Disguised
| people with patent gates to that extent that {
peddler Of these patents is in danger, Of bodily
harm when he presents the subject to- the
fafmer, and especially II he should mention.
sitDSo oArHs :,
| nln, LUZ 10 u sensaAse' Oh 'nas suo9ecs'
Every little while TIE hear OF some patent-ma
making raid on the farmers who are using a
| sliding gate. Sometimes they get the coveted
| S5 for the claimed infringement, sometimes
they are promised it after the. case is fully in-
yestigated, and sometimes they are ordered of
the premises instanter, and they leave, muttering
renge.nco IN a en,t haforo tba n;atr;ct f,ou,,t ~
49, Es.aa o.s.' 49,. oo ~ 4,:" 49,. ~ ~
me United states, out someno" they manage TO
sa1ye over their offended dignity and the tramp
ling down Of their rights, and pass on to some
other rural no,ehborhood and repeat their de-
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nlanu1' pt.' illus .at nn'0 ue'et ntsio 1na'
sui mas 1ouo"ea THESE threats =:
Sometime in 1856 OFT, saw q: farm-gate On
the sliding plan, that rested On sort OF !:
cAsTEn-WuEEL Oh PuLLY >, !
attached to the gate-post. Tho gates we're made
double,-thnt is, each part filed half Of the
space when closed the sections we're showed
back over this caster-roller some three or four
feet, an d then turned one-fourth around on the
CASTER thus leaving the space open' At the
time, t thought that was q good gate, and in
castings we're held at 50 per gate; but I lost
the add ress, and have never seen OF heard Of
that nracisa plan for 4 gate sinca that time. 4
period Of eo1ne sixteen or seventeen years, and
a
or onite expired:
:, cao. .5tar +hot +,,oa .ro had >vb.t nos baan
known a. The Sliding eata. Instead of tTe
caeter-wbeo1 an extra eata-post is sot a few
inches from Tho other, and q cross board uniting
fhe two m which fhe oate il 1oaiIe tn alide
and il t,rned one-fourth aronnd in ordert to open
Il The onlv difYeronce in the tvo beinu :.
THE BOARD INSTEAD OF TIE ROLLER.
And for this latter cste, the far1n-riehts ara
c1airoed bv tha nafent-rirht norambntators.
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natent. Icannot aav. but It is not nrobahie f3at
e;thar ,ron1d T;ar a sn;t on. the;r 6r;n;naltv 90
eirniIar eIidinr Gates have been used for many
wears prior 10 tie iasuiue of such patentg.
o,ta ~ tha t.ay far,,, ~ -" - 1''e'A4e
e"'o ~ w11Txrv or 1rr consrv
That oata reated m fwn iron sheaes or ro11ara
q inches in d;aTneter and ~ inches thtck Th;sa
eate was also in two panels and each filed half Of
fbe snaoe s % Of the ROADWAY. The rnte was simnle
afronr che.n and Jnrehfa Int vas t1,an % iank,
mo ~ - hat}ar and 1nnra orneta gafa for nv
faTm and ~ in the meantime. until snch a rata
Wa broueht forth. out no the old swine-sato
with a rafe-rost a dozen feet long. 1lM feet in
G;smatsr end set in The o1onnd af ieast feet
daen fhe rafe-1osf itseff costinfr roore than fha
rsternosts And ;ron.ro1jers nf thaf ~ Mr wit
new. Since that time / have looked at alI the
fairs for the coming farm-eate. but N1
1m NOT co,1g.
Year after year q new CROP Of gates has sprung
up only to give place to others, aud to-day We
make . sad show in the Wy Of farm gates.
Our Agricultural College farms ara no better
supplied than others. probably for the same rea-
son stated above that they have their ideas fixed
upon an ornamental, cheap, durable and eaaily-
MANAGED rate: ~-.-t
In December last, made another visit to my
old friend Whitney, Of the great apple orchard,
and had OCCASION to pass through the
sAME OLD SLIDING GATE
"That is tho chespest and: bost gate that was
ever put on farm, :" said alr. Whitney, as, with
q shove, it went back on the rollers. sand,
would you think" he continued, that, after
using this kind Of gate for mora than twenty
years, a mild-looking young man came along ono
day aud claimed that hs was the agent Of the
patentee, and demanded IS for the farm-rght.
Of course T was indignant, and told him to
get OF the premises at once, and, il
beard Of him IN tho neighborhood attempting
to collect for farm-rights on his pretended
patent, I would have him arrested as = swindler
and q black-rnaller The Young man disappeared,
and have heard nothing of him OF his pretend /
ed patent since, Why, The gate was used On
this fam before the Young gentleman was born"
It is possible that farmer may inadvertently
uao legitimate patent, for which he ought to
nay the inventor; but such case is 30 improb-
able that be should not pay any claim of the
kiud until after full Investigation; and this
matter is also one that it is aduty for the oranges