Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 March 1879 — A Farmer’s Tool House. [ARTICLE]

A Farmer’s Tool House.

There should be a tool house on every farm. It. is indispensable if implements—suthas plows, harrows, forks, shovels, rakes, rollers, mowing and reaping machines, wheelbarrows, etc, are to be protected against the weather and certain injury done by exposure from rust and mt. This house should be made with large doors to close tightly; and, in a part of it—say at one end—there should be a separate room with windows containing a “work bench,” a “shaving horse,” vise, augers, gimlets, chisels, a couple of planes, a mallet, hatchet, hand saw, screw driver, nails screws, pinchers, and so on; so that, in severe or inclement weather of any Kind, when out-door work is im possible, or when there is none, many repaiis of things can be dune, and even some new article made, harness, blankets, etc., mended, new handles to folks and rakes put in, and a score of odd jobs attended to which will prove a great convenience and a step forward when spring opens and active operations on rhe farm commence. There should, o* course, be a stove in the shop, in which fire should be made every morning. This would cost nothing for fuel, as the chips and Works about the place, and the the offid cgh! from the screening of the ashes and ashes sould always be seieened—would supply all the f.ud necessary. It would be a resort, too. for the men ami bova, even should there be nothing to ‘do. and thn women folks would get i-LJ of them wher they wold be llkelyTo bo :n the way in the house.—Germantown telegraph.

It you wunt a good job, call on Bean. A. Leopold la making the mud fly prodigious!?; the result will be a flrst-claas plank crossing immediately in front of hie store. First-class becuuee Pap Smoot Is bossing it. “Lord" Hunkins has become crosseyed, caused by looking from a third story window of the new Hotel at that charming young widow who stepped Into the Tailor shop.