Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 February 1875 — Take Care of the Tools. [ARTICLE]

Take Care of the Tools.

The tools employed upon the farm are costly and should receive the same care which is bestowed on. other valuable

farmers a kind of chronic neglect in respect to the care of the implements of husbandry. Complicated machines like with thefr iron” hes& levers and cams, are allowed to rust and decay, so that in a couple of seasons they are worthless. This nbglect is inexcusable, unpardonable. Some farmers become torpid, frozen up, in the winter, and if* pear to have no active blood in their veins. They will not take up a rake or a neglected hoe in winter and put it under cover. We havA - seen ladders, forks, harrows, shovels, etc., peeping out from under the snow in winter, in time of thaw, and have asked why they were not cared for. Sometimes the reply has been, “We will attend to it to-morrow,” but that to-morrew never came. There must be a society organized for “ protecting farming tools,” and the officers must have full power to forcibly seize and put away all neglected implements, no matter upon whose premises they are found.— Journal of Chemistry.