The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1905-05-12
MoLDs FOR CEMENT POSTS.

/ noticed some inquiry in regard to
molds for cement posts; we nave not
made any cement posts but intend
making some this season as / think
they are the cheapest posts that can
be. had. I have a plan for making
them, but it Is to be tried yet. We
will first make platform, the length
of my posts, and as wide as the num-
Der of posts wish to make at one
time. If I make twelve posts at one
time, six inches square at one end.
and five inches square at the other
end, will make outside frame seven
feet and nine inches at one end
and five feet eleven inches at the 9TH
er end. That will include eleven one
inch spaces for partitions between
posts. The outside frame should be
six inches high at the wide end and
five inches high at the narrow end;
the sides of frame should be six
inches high at one end and five inches
high at the other end, so the frame
will be straight all the way around.
On top this frame may be in four
separate pieces, and held from push
ing outward by means of stakes, For
partitions we will use oEe-inch boards
with pins in bottom edge, one pin at
each end and one in the middle; the
pins to go into holes bored in plat
form. Now we have our molds ready
to fill with cement. OF course we will
use straight-edge on top. If we want
to put wires lengthwlse in posts,
which think is necessary, we will
bore holes in frame, four holes for
each end of each post, large enough
for number twelve wire; holes should
be one inch from bottom and top
and one incn from partition. Now
we are ready to make posts with
wire through them. We will fill in
our cement about one inch; then put
in two wires for each post. These
wires may be left in one piece, draw
them through so they will be as near
straight as possible, and fasten ends;
then fill within one inch of top, and
put in other two wires, and finish
filling. Use straight edge top; cover
them over and let stand until cement
is sufficiently set, then loosen wires.
take out one end and one side Of
frame, and take posts out. If anyone
has better plan, or can add to this,
would like to hear from him.-L. A.
Dobbs in Indiana Farmer.
Draft horses should be selected for
their quality rather than their size.
Before buying a horse, test his
walking capacity, and in order to do
this hitch him in the kind of rig you
intend to use him for.
Sound feet are the basis for good
horse You cannot keep him in such
a condition If you permit him to stand
in filthy stable.
If a horse stands with his feet
spread apart or straddles with his
hind legs, there is weakness in his
loins and the kidneys are disordered.
The Industrial world is more de-
pendent upon the draft horse than
ever before, and is more eager to get
good ones at any price.
Many farmers have bought sim
gle Percheron mare that has bred
them into more money than all the
other farm stock, and has added
great prosperity to horse breeding
throughout the Northwest States-a
new prosperity to many farms.
The draft horse is the most popu-
lar farm horse in all Europe, and has
already become the leading market
and farm horse in America as the
best farm horse, the best city work
horse and the most profitable horse
to raise.
We can only increase our draft
horse production as we increase our
heavy draft mares. Every good draf.
mare is a fortune on the farm to
work and to breed to raise big draft
geldings that sell higher than ever
before in America.
Farmers who have learned to breed
to suit the market will have some
good grade draft mares and breed to
the best pure bred draft stallion
available regardless of price. These
farmers always have fine draft teams
for the best farm work and the ma
turing gelding attracts the horse buy.
ers.
The horse buyers want horses with
all the size and quality of the draft
breeds. They want them now and
cheerfully pay almost any price you
have the courage to ask them IL they
are the top of the market. No stock
on the farm pays so well to breed as
draft mares are worth doubly as
much for Neutrality-suspicious. Farmer.
PACKING AWAY.
When the farmer begins the sea-
sons work out of doors. the mistress
of the house usually commences to
pack away the family furs and win
ter wraps, often with many misgiv-
ings as to their safety from clothes
moths and other pests indoors. A
simple and yet entirely effective pre-
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