Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 July 1895 — The Care of Farming Tools. [ARTICLE]

The Care of Farming Tools.

Foreigners who have traveled through the United States haVb always been struck by the carelessness of our farmJ ers in regard to their machinery. No other farmers In the world make such general use at the devices for saving toil produced by modern Invention, and nowhere else are such Implements so neglected when not In actual use. Too often a farmer who buys a valuable machine leaves It standing out of doors, exposed to all the vicissitudes of the weather until he has occasion to use It again the following year. Thon when he examines It he finds It serlbtisly out of repair, and ho suffers delay while It Is being put Into good cohilU tlon. Sometimes the damage Is so great that he is persuaded to the machine off for a hew one, paying a large sum “to boot.” / One good effect of the hard times hag been the development of groale? 'ears In this respect among our agricultural population. People who have traveled extensively through the Southern and Western States during the last winter report that the farmers now keep their machines under cover more generally than they ever did before.—Florida Citizen.