Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1920-11-12
Long Prairie Leader:-'' Every Todd
County farmer this fall who can afford

County farmer this fall who can afford
it and most every farmer in the county
can afford it if he wants to, ought to put
a couple hundred dollars into labor
saving devices for his wife. Outside
the fact that she is entitled to- them
anyway, the installation of some of
these things will, from every conceive
able standpoint, prove good invest
ment: It will pay better returns than
new machinery, bigger barns or blood
ed stock because it will tighten the
work Of the one who most often puts in
the longest hours on the farm and upon
whose efforts more than those: of any
one else, depends the attractiveness of
the farm home and Of the farm life in
general. Where it can be afforded and
where it is possible, every farm house
should have pump in the kitchen. The
farmer who INDUCES in the luxury of
a sulky pillow before he has provided
some such labor-saving device as water
in the kitchen, is not fair to his wife.
1t costs but little to put in a sink with
a drain and cess pool, but when in.
stalled in the kitchen it saves miles of
steps for her who has 50 many steps to
take anyway that she ought not to
have to take more than are necessary.
Every farm home should have wood
shed close up to the kitchen door,
where the cook stove wood could be
kept dry. Before adding lot of labor
saving machinery out in the barn, why
not see that friend wife has first-class
up-to.d date kitchen range with ell the
pots, pans, kettles, ETC., that she needs
to make her work easier. A tool house
out back Of the granary is all right,
but how about a good cupboard in the
kitchen where the wife works, cup,
board designed by some one who knows
how a cupboard ought to be designed
with bins for sugar and flour and COM
partments for all the dishes and the
utensils and other tools with which she
has to work. Pumping water for stock
is hard work and a gas engine is a
mighty fine thing for the boss, but how
about a washing machine to help the
wife in some Of her work that is just
as hardf If the kitchen hash It back
porch, better decide to- put one ON this
fall-it will make your wife appreciate
your thoughtfulness good many times
before the winter is over. Make the
porch floor Of cement-not of wood and
if possible, screen it. Then while you
are about it, screen the front porch
nothing will add so much to the plea
sure of the whole family as screened
porches and the whole job can be done
at an expense not much more than the
cost Of an automobile tire-or say two
tires, if you are indulging in a Ford.
Full Easements under barns are quite
the fashion, but some time when you
get around to put full basement under
the house, your wife will wonder how
she ever got along without it. AS a
convenience, labor-saver and comfort,
don't overlook the full 'basenlent when
you start out to 60 tifty.6fty with
your wife in the installation of con-
venience and labor-savers on the farm.
Think this over. Where can two or
three hundred dollars be spent to bet
ter and happier advantage. Make the
start this fall and keep up the good
work every fall as hong as there are
things that can be bought or made to
tighten homework.