The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1904-12-07
Attention Farmers.

There is nothing that comes nearer
giving your correspondent the ricketts,,
as he rides along the public highways
| in the richest districts in the United
! States than to see the amount OF GOOD
machinery, rusting and rotting down,
unhitchcd from, and left where last
used, covered with a mass OF mud ana
Overgrown with weeds This reckless
and cxtravagant waste, this utter dis
regard of every principal OF economy
should not and can not hone TO nave
an abiding place in the management
of any farm where they have the re-
hottest expectation Of succeeding. 1t
might have been so in the olden times,
when lands were worth less and taxes
lower; when it cost infinitely less TO
live and travel: when wages and cost
of maintenance were far below what
they are today; when our pride ran to
much lower standards and the adj
vantages we have today at an increas-
ing expense were not to be had.
The necessary machinery required
in the operation of good quarter sec
ton farm can not be purchased for
much less than three hundred dollars.
Many of these, unless well housed and
properly cared for will be of little SER
vice after two seasons, the replacing
/ r A. ~, l. 800 nj of a
penSe, taken into consideration with
the other fixed charges on the farm.
Mowers, binders and hay rakes 20
down TO stage of uSeleSSnesS very
fast when left out to keep company
with the owls and gOphers. The mat
ter of decaying is not the only loss to
be calculated, but the loss of time and
money in getting them started the
following spring and summer, due
from an accumulation OF rust and dirt
Now is good time to make some
new resolutions and put them int(
execution; go out by the old straw
stack and bring In the harrow; q
down in the low lands among the deaf
grass, where you will find the move
in a weeping condition, bring it in
look there by the hog lot gate and yol
will see the binder, where the hog
and calves have made scratchin
post of il, for 10, these many days
let's have it; out in the corn field las
laid by-one snugly tossed up in tn
fence corner and two half buried
the mud-you will find three fine me-
corn plows, better fetch them alon
, while your resolutions last. GathC
them all up and place them in con
Portable position and cover them Owe
nice convenient shed will answt
best, but if this is not to be had,
few loads OF that slough hay, we'll su
y ported on some posts will suffice, bl
> be sure the fowls are not allowed FRI
range among them, or they will M
' be much improved by the surroun
. ings.
+ All canvas should be removed, car
fully rolled up and placed in the dr.
the sickles taken out, ton careful
3, rolled up, and placed in and under Il
~ wheels to keep them out of the dir
20 see that nothing rests against the de
"a cate frame structures that by constal
=, pressure might warp them out Of lin
. where there are springs used in the
- adjustment, loosen them ALSO be su
that all the shovels and stubble plo'
~ are well oiled with some soft oil
. tallow-common axle grease is We
=, good for this purpose, the only obje
40 tion is the removal in the spring; no
!, ever, by pouring little scaldil
~ water on them you will experience
- trouble in this direction. Now d
No or two taken out OF the field at Il
% time of the year will repay remar
able interest on the time In caring
your machinery in this way, and IL
the solemn wish OF the writer that
las will never be necessary TO call a
ar ones attention TO this dereliction
GU duty in the future. Pick it all up a
is house il away-be a farmer, not
ar, sloth. e. A. Wilson, in the NebraS
me Farmer.