The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1862-04-16
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Preparation of Tools and Inn
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ARE your ploWs III IeaulueSS loT tue
sell? If you are to purchase new one
or two, and are in doubt which kind to
purchase, ask the privilege of trying
three or four different kinds with view
of purchasing. Any manufacturer vii!
willingly grant such privilege. But do
not attempt to use new plow until it is
we'll polished, SO that the earth will slip
we'll. The manufacturers can polish a
plow in few minutes, and ,could do it
if the farmers would request it.
Plow points should now be ordered and
brought home for future use. 1say order
them cast, because many manufacturers
are growing cunning about making points,
BY not chilling the edge. They will tell
farmers that they are just as good a'tth-
out being cold chilled as to chill them
But this is not so. One point when
chilled will out last two that are not
chilled When points are not chilled
they will wear off on the under side in
half day so much as to cause plow not
to run SO deep, nor of depth so uniform,
nor so steadily by great difference, as
if they were chilled. Order not only the
entering points to be chilled, but the
setng of the plow point to be chilled. -
by the wing is meant the entire edge.
Besides this, put every point on the
grindstone and polish it before it is ever
used. This will save in the strength of
teams, and in doing the plowing well,
more than fifty cents on every point.
HARRows.-Is a new harrow needed ?
Procure some good timber, and employ
good workman in wood, who will make
the wood work in less than day, A
workman by the job will ask from 81 81
to So for the work onIy-besides the tim
Der. For the teeth procure tie best of
iron of the proper size, and employ
blacksmith to make the teeth. Our
Blacksmiths make harrow teeth for five
cents each, with a great profit to them
selves, as a man will make over one hun
dred per day. BY this system of man
agement good harrow may be made for
six or seven dollars, quite as good as to
pay sixteen dollars for one that is neatly
vanished.
There is no economy in planning and
painting the woodwork of harrows, be-
cause they are always so much exposed
TO harsh and rough usage, which cannot
be avoided, that paint is of very little
service.
Let all harrow teeth be well sharpened,
and if the points were laid with steel and
tempered, they would be much better
than iron alone.
The best. most durable and neatest
kind of paint for any kind of tools or im
plements, is light blue. This is far bet
ter than red, as blue will reflect more Of
the heat of the sun than red. Conse-
queutly the wood which is painted will
be heated and sun checheG less when
painted blue. During the warm days in
March let tools and implements be wash
ed clean and painted blue.
To prepare blue paint that will dry
soon, procure good boiled oil, which will
cost about ten cents more per gallon than
unboiled. Procure quart or more, ac-
cording to amount of painting to be done,
of liquid drier or laquer. Then take one
piut of oil, half pint Of drier and min
gle by stirring in with stick enough
white lead to make it about as thick as
cream. Zinc white is pest unless man
has an apparatus for grinding the Lead
Zinc will require no grinding, but must
be thoroughly stirred, and all the Jumps
mashed. Now put IN one, or two, or
three tablespoonfulls of Prussian blue,
and stir it thoroughly. But a smal!
quantity of blue will be necessary to make
a handsome blue paint. If it appears
too light colored, put in more blue
Paint prepared few hours before it is
used, will work better than that just pre-.
pared.
If the oil and drier are good, paint
prepared according to the foregoing d.
rections, will dry in from one to two
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