San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1882-05-25
or Interest 10 Farmers.
Pleasanton (T,xas) Monitor

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One in riding through the country is
surprised at the way in which farmers
leave their valuable farm machinery in
the field without any protection from
the rain and the sun. A shed of rough
boards costs but little, and will pay a
large interest on the investment if used
to shelter these machines. Because we
do not see the slow decay, we. are apt
to forget that it is going on, until re-
minded by some costly machine which
goes to pieces just at the moment when
most needed. This treatment of ma
chimes is excellent for the manufac-
turers, but it is one OF the prominent
reasons why farming don't pay"
Farmers who hoop their own barrels,
tubs, ETC.. whenever they need it,mend
and oil their harness., do their own
butchering, papering, painting, white
washing, filing of saws, mending OF
farm implements, and dozens OF other
things which people of any ingenuity
are capable of, have little idea how
much they save every year by so doing.
Things can be kept in much better
order than if they were obliged to wait
until money could be earned to pay
professional hands to do their work.
and oftentime little mechanical jobs
can be done in much less time than
would be consumed in carrying them
To and from the workshop.
A light and comfortable workshop,
with bench, wise and carpenters tools
sufficient for doing any ordinary work,
is almost Indispensable to a successful
farmer. Things SO often need repair
ing, and then, in the leisure of stormy
days and wintry weather, great many
things needed on the farm-like cart
and wagon bodies, sleds, ox-yokes, axe
and whip handles, can be manufactured
by the farmer or his sons, which serve
as good purpose as if they had been
bought, and cost, in this way, compare
lively little.
A soldering iron, with the necessary
Accomplishments of Resin, acid and sold
or, is another economical institution
which dairymen, especially, find con-
venient, for if every milk can, pail,
etc., had to be carried to the tin shop
whenever leak was to be stopped o
great deal of time, if not money, would
be consumed by it. Then, every time
lead pipe can be mended by home tai
emit, enough is saved, if far from vii
lage, to cover the cost of an iron.
Ladies, with little practice, can easily
learn to use them and keep their tim
ware looking much more wholesome
than if mended with putty or rags
drawn through.
II ones time is so fully occupied
that they would be obliged to neglect
things of more importance to attend
to such matters, of course, it would be
poor economy to do SO; but this is not
apt to he the case with general farmers,
as foul weather gives so much oppor-
tunity for indoor work that good man
ayers will contrive to do the most OF
their repairing and mechanical work at
such times.
To be of any. permanent benefit to
his towns-people in the way of finnish
ing employment, man must SO man
age his business, whatever it is, that it
will be profitable and enable him to
build up capital with which to work.
This, at the present time at least, can
not be done without close attention to
business and the avoidance of all un-
necessary expenses.