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THE HARDIN TRIBUNE -HERALD • sr :TREASURE STATE FARM AN LIVESTOCK Labor Saving Harness Equipmeinit That Makes itlg Teams Profitable on Farms (Prom the Montana State College). (This is the second of the siert- tes of \Big Team' articles.) T HE TYPES of big teams to be considered in these articles may be classified under three heads: string teams, 'bunch teams and abreast tealla8. The word \team\ is rather hard to define properly, since it may mean two or more animals driven together. • • 'WI — : 7.11, ' - Am hers beginning with the first team ahead of the wheel team. The string team consists of pairs of animals hitched in line with the load. This is the type of a team used by the freighter of the pioneer days. and the pairs of horses are usually hitched by some kind of equalizer, onto a draft chain which passes down between them. Ten head of animals hitched to a three -bottom plow is i i itta; 4 1,!! • bmi&C. 2 4t a '01 . 1 FIGURE 1. The three common types of big teams; (a). The string team with animals driven two abreast; (b). The bunch tenni, with animals driven six -abreast; (c). The abreast team with all animals pulling against a common bar. It is used to define the entire group et animals, and also used to deignate certain parts of that group. Thus a bunch team is composed of a lead team, wheel team and perhaps one or more awing teams. The wheel team is the group of an- imals nearest the implement; the lead ream is the group in the lead, and any team between the wheel and the lead teams is called the swing team. The swing teams are generally designated as \first swing team,\ \second awing team,\ etc., the num- Probably one reason for the popularity of WRIGLEY'S is that it lasts so long and returns euch great dividends for so small an outlay. • It keeps teeth clean, breath sweet, appetite keen, digestion good. Fresh and full -flavored always in its wax -wrapped package. 2 Gra zing Tracts 1Bortlering 1.01.0 NAJIOIAL FOIEST 25,000 ACRES and MON ACRES AT $ 3 PER ACRE itplandid greet', wale., browse and shade. dal a southern slope giving Plialy pasture. Httlirosid spur touchy* the land. Terms: 10 per rent down. bnbsnre fil1O1t$441 Into to yearly partner - its BLACKFOOT LAND DEVELOPMENT CO. Deleeuw 15410, Missoula. Mont. standard equipment in the big team farming sections. There is an advantage in this type of team because of the added cool- ness of the animals An hot weather, and in the freedom of each animal while working. There is less danger of tramping on feet, especially in turning, and it makes hitching a more simple operation. Many believe that the farther a team is away from the implement, the less will be its pulling power, but this is not neces- sarily true if the proper angle of draft is maintained on the traces of all teams. In bunch teams, the animals are driven more than two abreast. Often there are four or more animals abreast, the common twelve -horse Abreast teams art those where all animals are driven abreast all pull- ing on one common bar or double - tree. The writer has seen 14 horses hitched abreast, all hitched by means of chains and double -trees to a tele- phone pole, which in turn was at- tion to this is that snap may easily tached to the implement. This team get caught on objects with which it FIGURE 6. In unhitching the chain is unfastened tugs to hang up. and dropped. is unwieldy and difficult to beadle If too large. It is rarely soon with more than four horses abreast, ex- cept on drag harrow and summer fal- low slickers. Types of Harness. The farmer who drives only four horses is not greatly interested in methods for reducing the work awl time for harnessing and hitching ..n,1 their reverse operations. But •ee farmer who drives eight or more '- mats will be interested in short-cuts that will lessen the time required •.o harness and get the animals from 'lie barn to the implement, and retw n. One of the commonest objecti, , : , s raised to the big team by the in x- perienced farmer is that it \woual take too much time to harness and handle.\ Farmers of the big team sections of the west have devised a type of harness which combines lightness, simplicity and many time saving ad- vantages. This type of harness is called \butt chain harness,\ and it gets its name from the type of short tug used. Other parts of the harness may vary, but the butt chain tug is in use in practically all of these sec- tions. No one distinct type of har- ness is demanded in big team farm- ing, yet experience proves that cer- tain arrangements of harness are a big advantage, • The standard big team butt chain harness is distinct both for the butt chain type of traces and also for oth- er labor saving arrangements, such as hips straps, tug supports, snaps in- stead of buckets. The tugs on the butt chain harness, instead of ex- tending from the hame to the single - tree, extend only to the horse's thighs. The leatherpart of such a tug is usually 60 inches long, and the standard type of butt chain, which extends from this tug to the single - tree, is two feet and six inches in length. , The tug may be attached to the butt chain in several ways. However. the Dee feastener, in which the butt chain is snapped, gives the best satis- faction. A harness equipped with comes in contact. The old fashioned type of butt chain harness attached the tug to the chain by means of a hook. However, the objection to the hook is the same as with the swivel Inconvenient only when the teamster changes to a new implement with- out transferring his equalized hitch, which is not likely to happen often. In using the butt chain harness in big team outfits, the lines usually are left off most of the animals, al- though a butt strap may be used in- stead. They are accordingly much lighter than the ordinary farm har- ness. The' average butt chain big team harness without lines, etc.. but 1r3 1 7 1-1FAV • SNAV'\) ---- t -- -saTC . 4=?Cipasszy=411/40 FIGURE 4. The recommended type of butt chain. It has a strong snap, a swivel and Is light, yet strong. Thirty inches long, snap, that it may get caught on the with buck straps attached, weighs harness of another horse or on parts from 20 to 24 pounds. The regular of an implement, and also because farm harness, with britching and the butt chain itself can easily be- lines, weighs in the neighborhood of come unhooked. This is especially 35 pounds, while a heavy dray or A 5 FIGURE 2. The Doe fasteners; (a). Tug Dee with hook attached; (b). Tug Dee plain, the snap being part of the chain; (c). Plain tqg hook hich sews into the end of the leather trace and to which the chain is at- tached: (n). The tug Dee which has a swivel snap attached and which is a commonly used type. likely to take place while a team, wagon harness often weighs 44 to hitched to a wagon, is going down 60 pounds. The lighter harness is a bill with the tugs swinging loose, distinct advantage in harnessing. Butt chains are of different types. A butt chain that is light and strong and having both a swivel and a well ,onstructed snap is particularly re- . ommended. This type of harness is TRACE LOOP - ' 21 BOO %NI 01-4- BELL\ltiAN TUC, V .WI4 , 4 to t, A - 7 ;;E:2.c71 - 4 T; REAV, FIGURE 2. The William; standard butt chain harness commonly used in the big team sections of the northwest. team having three rows of animals four -abreast. As many as 36 horses are often used in bunch teams on the tug Dees and butt chains with snap combine. These big bunch teams, may have a trace carrier attached to TESTING OF cows with properly arranged lines, buck the harness on the horse's rump and. straps, connecting chains and equal- when desired, the tug chains may be sllows BIG PROFIT ized hitches. may be driven as easily left snapped to the tug Dee when not as a two -horse team. in use. When chain harness serves for all pratical purposes as a heel chain harness. (From the Montana State College).1 Sometimes a swivel snap is at- 1IE cow testing association tached and used instead of the sim- movement which has developed pie Dee, the links of the butt chain rapidly in the last few years has being snapped into it. The objec- done more to increase the productiv- ity of the dairy cow than has any oth- er single factor, according to J. 0. Tretaven, extension service dairy spe- cialist. In his report on Montana cow testing associations for July of this year, Mr. Tretsven says that in- creased production kas come through weeding, breeding and better feed- ing. \Wherever these cow testing or- ganizations have been active there has been a marked increase in the milk and fat yield per cow,\ he says. \We find this thing happening in Montana today. During the first Y;ar of the Bitter Root Cow Testing association the average production per cow was 6,387.9 pounds of milk and 261.9 pounds of butter fat. This is an increase in one year of 4,242 pounds of milk and 33.5 pounds of fat for the 320 cows tested, or a to - No tal of 10,720 pounds of fat. \Figuring this fat at forty cents per pound the increased value of the product is $4,288. Only about one- fourth of this amount *as paid out for cow testing work by these farm- ers. In addition to the benefit of in- creased fat production there was an increase in skim milk or whey, which in some cases had considerable val- ue as a feed for calves, „pigs and poultry. \There is also considerable benefit from the work through the checking on the efficiency of the cream separa- tor, the adoption of better feeding! and management practices, and in the I knowing of the productive capacity of each cow of the herd. This en- ables dairymen to select offspring of the highest producers. \Increased production, cheaper production, Is the result in the com- munity of cow testing work, where it it is carried on over a period of years. There is no question that the cow testing association is a most valuable organisation in the development of the dairy herd.\ Mr. Tretsven's report shows the Bitter Root association to lead all others in average production, with 32.6 pounds of fat per cow. The high- est producing tow was Ruth, owned by - .Itwie /lubber of Caosode• county, this Holstein producing 2,542 pounds of milk and 72.2 pounds of butterfat. o -- Children Cry for 15. k 1 4to tt MOT T :— Fletcher's. Castoria is especially pre- pared to relieve Infants in arms and Children all ages of Constipation, Flatulency; Wind COlic and Diarrhea; allaying Feverishness arising therefrom, and, ig regulating the Stomach and 4owels, aith the assimilation of Food; giving natural sleep. To avoid imitations, always look for the signature of Absolutely harmless -No Opiates. Physicians everywhere recommend it. As well do nothing, as to no pur- pose. The butt chain harness is much lighter than the ordinary harness and the short tugs do away with tilt necessity of fastening up the tugs at unhitching time when the driver would have to crowd in between the horses to hook them up. The tugs are permanently held up by hip straps so that in unhitching the on- ly operation is in dropping or at- taching the butt chain. There are, therefore, no tugs coming down to be stepped upon or to slap the horse's legs. . Note—Article No. Three on \Big Teams\ will appear in the next issue of this paper. Do not hurry; do not flurry; nothing good is got by worry. DON'T CUT OUT A Shoe Boil,Capped Hock or Bursitis FOR ABsoRiBINE will reduce them and leave no blemishes. Stops lameness promptly. DOER not blis- ter or remove the hair, and horse can be worked. $2. 50 a bottle delivered. Soak 6 R free. ABSORBINE. JR.. for Mankind. the antiseptic nalniont lot Boil,. Bruises. Screw Swciln1.. Varico•eVC1,111- Allay. Pain and laftammation. Price11.2S a bonie at amg- gists or dclivercd. Will tell you mote it you write. W. F. YOUNG, lac. HO Lyon. St, Springfield, Mass. McCARTHY BROS. 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