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��How to Make a Kitchen Table Fit You

DOES your kitchen table fit you? The average woman is 5' 4" in height. An ordinary table, built for her,

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��fat stock. The feed-lot is paved with concrete. This saves manure and makes a much better surrounding for the steers.

An economical constructiton will re- quire the following amounts of materials. Labor will cost but little. Farm hands can do the work during the "nothing to do" period on the farm. These prices hold good in the West:

45 bbls. cement for pave- ments, floors and walls.. $ 72.00 8 cedar posts, 12' long for

shed supports 4.00

8 cedar posts, 14' long for

shed supports 5.00

2500^ of 2" X 6" framing lumber 70.00

30 squares galvanizing metal 95.00

500' crib siding for corn crib 15.00

��Is your table of the right height? If it is

too high any one can saw off the legs; here

are shown schemes to make them longer

is 30" high. Thousands of women should have their tables a little higher or a little lower to avoid the fatigue that results from working at a table which does not fit.

Mrs. Frederick, the writer on domestic efficiency, after conducting a series of tests, states that 1/2" should be add- ed or subtracted from the height of the table for every inch of the person's height above or below the average 5' 4". A table may be raised by boring holes in the legs serting casters, or by screwing rubber-tipped door stops. For a very tall woman, four right-angle braces may be screwed on to the lower parts of the legs, the short sides of the braces resting on the floor.

��Feeding Twenty Steers

FOR the average farmer of the middle western states, who annually fattens a carload of steers, a plant can be made which will be found good from every point of view. It is not expensive; it is arranged for convenience ; the labor cost of feeding is lessened, and all the work of feeding is under cover. A good, sensible, warm shelter is provided for

��$261.00 Silo 300.00

��Total $561.00

��and in- on four

���Twenty steers can be kept and fattened in

this small and cheap plant, the designs

shown being sufficient for starting work

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