Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 August 1899 — Some Useful Animals. [ARTICLE]

Some Useful Animals.

The machinist employs a dog on his lathe; he takes, a hog cut, if the tool will stand it, and the castings are made from pigs of iron. A mechanic puts his work upon a horse or buck, and punches or bends it by a convenient bear. Hoisting is done by a crab, and a convenient cat is a part of the outfit of a shop crane, and a kit of tools is ever on hand. A crow helps to straighten work, a jack to lift it; a mule pulley aids in driving machinery that a donkey-en-gine turns. A fish connects parts end to end, or strengthens a broken beam; shells are used all over; a worm does powerful but quiet work. A cock shuts off the water, one kind of ram lifts it aud another does heavy work. A printing press has a fly, the first locomotives had a grasshopper valve motion and drive and butterfly valves are common. Herring bone gears are used by the best builders; turtles fit printing press cylinders and fly wheels are running all over the world. In drilling, even, an old man is called into service, and doctors prevent faulty lathe work.