The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1895-12-24
Care of Farming Implements.

Exchange.
The time of year has come when
1T is necessary to prepare for the
stormy blasts" of the winter.
Nearly all good farmers have fig
ured out by this time how they ex-
poet to get through the winter
themselves and how they expect to
take proper care of their stock. A
few of these, too, have sheds, where
they have already stored away their
farming implements SO that they as
well may be preserved in proper or
der for use next year. They have
been cleaned and oiled at the work
ing points, and have been placed
under cover so that they may not
rust during the winter. These
thoughtful farmers will have their
machinery in good condition when
they wish to use it next spring, and
will have very few repairs to make,
and need not lose much time in get
ting this well-cared-for machinery
ready for work.
But there are some farmers. some
of them pretty good' farmers, too,
who have no sheds especially pro-
vided for their farm implements, or
having sheds, have no particular
rule for storing away their machin-
cry after use. When a mower or
reaper or a drill has done it's work
in the summer, they are "a little too
busy with other work to house it at
once, and so they leave these in the
field for u time until the leisure
i, time come to gather them up. Pro
crastination and delay do their work
; when nothing else is working, and
the reaper and mower and drills,
etc., are left just where they were
= last used until winter comes, and
then if put under cover at all, they
+ are in such a condition that the rust
and dirt do their work during the
winter, and in the spring the ma.
r chimes are either rusted out or moi
, fit to be used until several DAYS are
a spent in fixing them up.
r Other farmers, not indeed, yer,
! good ones, leave their implements
! either in the field or in the barn.
! yard all the winter unprotected
, These, of course, have machines al.
e ways out of order and need new ones
every few years, and generally wher
8 they are the least able to bup them
because the carelessness which ha.
s kept them from taking care of theil
farming implements, has prevented
them from having as good crops al
q they should have had, or of takins
the best care of what they did get
A farmers method of farming
can be pretty fairly estimated b,
hunting up his plows and harrows
his drills and rakes and binders, il
the winter time. If these are foun,
It in the fields or even in the barn
yard unprotected from the snow an,
rain and the sunshine. you ma,
pretty certainly conclude that tn
d farmer isnot q good model and is no
getting rich:
n Upon making inquiry of a mana
20 ger OF an extensive manufactory O
n farming implements, we were toll
g that he understood almost exactl
what the demand for implements TO
70 the year would be in a certain terri
4 tory; that he could tell what would b
q ne average life of a machine Just a
well as the most expert insuranc
man could tell what is the average if
"a of q man in q certain district or O
a certain employment. We the
- asked, "Does a machine live on
g half it's days?" He answered, enc
4 not on"-third." "Machines which
would last fifteen or twenty years j
properly used, have often less tina,
three years of useful life "Wha
? is the cause of this short life p
Want of care in protecting then
q from the weather"
What a farmer makes will neye,
k make him rich unless he saves wha
v he has made. Take care of YOU,
far implements and you SSilln
: 20 zen compliance of their; care am
expense. Z
Proper + and a little paint will
often double the life of machine o.
q Of a farm wagon.
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