Nevada County picayune., 1886-10-13
ACRiCULURTAL.
Repairing implements.

the management of farmers. Some are always running to the shops for repalrs, or buying new parts from the manufacturer to replace the used up old ones. Like the gun that was renewed in lCck, stock and barrel. the original i'm plement is gradually lost in re- pairs. No matter what the imple- ment, the character of the work, seed time or harvest, these men will be seen OH the road to or from a shop. It makes very little difference about the quality or age of the implement, 1t IS con stantly in need of repair Other farmers again never seem to have break downs. Their machinery always runs smoothly and is seldom repaired. There can be no fatality about this. It must all be in the management of the farmes~
 Machines are not, of course, built like the famous ''one hoss shay" They have all got their weak places-places that will wear out or break first, and thus come to need repairs, but it should be the study of the farmer 10 keep these down to the minimum. Re pairs are expenSive-eXpensive in themselves and in the losses which they directly occasion. Compare the price of casting that IS bought to take the place ofa brok- en one with the cost of the origi- nal piece proportionately figured on the price of a whole machine! Manufacturers and dealers readily admit that their profits are enor- nous on these repairs. The far mer knows that he is paying two or three hundred per cent, more than tue article ought to bring, but he is obligated to buy, and of that particular shop where his machine was built, so he is com pletely at the mercy of the dealers. It certainly behooves the farmer to look carefully after the condi- tion of his implements, and not allow these break downs to occur. It does not take long to lay out the price of a new machine upon an old one. There Is but little use to buy repairs for an old machine that is becoming badly worn in all it's parts. Better buy new again than to do this.
 An old worn-out machine may occasion much loss of valuable time. No farmer should enter the hay or harvest field with such a machine, and trust to repairs to carry him through. It is an easy matter to lose the price of a ma chine in this way. The losses oc- casioned by having to take the team out of the feld and away to town for repairs every two or three days can hardly be estimated. Having may be delayed, bad weath- CT come on, and the product so much injured that the condition of all the farm stock subsisting upon ! it is affected during the following winter. There is no department of farm management but that affects and is affected by all others,
 Much of the repairing needed by farm implements can be done at home by the farmer, if he is suit ably equipped for the work. Act ual cash outlay is saved in this way, and much time that may be of greater importance to the far mer than the cost of the repairs. Every farmer should have his small work shop and outfit oftcols, A small portable forge with the common iron. working tools can always he had for a very moderate sum. These, in addition to the common woodworking tools, will enable man wilh very ordinary skill to perform many little jobs of repairing, He can put a new ! bolster on in wagon, repair any part of a sleigh. replace broken beam iu the blow, rivet, splice or weld almost any piece of iron that gives out about his implements. Even a casting may sometimes be drilled and iron-strapped, and d repair thus effected without buying Inew.-Cor. Ohio Farmer.
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