Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 August 1884 — How to Keep Tires Tight. [ARTICLE]

How to Keep Tires Tight.

Here is something every farmer should remember and put in practice. It is the experience of a man who knows what he is talking about. “I have a wagon of which, six years ago, the felloes shrank so that the tires became loose. I gave it a good coat of hot od, and every year since it has had a coat of oil or paint, sometimes both. The tires are tight yet, and they have not been set for eight or ten years. Many farmers think that as soon as wagon felloes begin to shrink they must go at ODce to a blacksmith shop and get the tire set. Instead of doing that, which is often a damage to the wheels, casuing them to dish, if they will get some linseed oil and heat it boiling hot and give the felloes all the oil they can take, it will fill them up to their usual size and tighten to keep them from shrinking, and also to keep out the water. If you do not wish to go to the trouble of mixing paint, you can heat the oil and tie a rag to a stick and swab them over as long as they will take oil. A brush is more convenient to use, but a swab will

answer if yon do not wish to bnv a brash. It is quite a saving of time and money to look after the woodwork of farm machinery. Alternate wetting aDd drying injures and causes the b st wood soon to decay and lose its strength unless kept well painted. It pays to keep a little oil on hand to oil fork-handles, rakes, neck-yokes, whi Octrees, and any of the small tools on the farm that are more or less exposed.”