Rensselaer Union, Volume 6, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 June 1874 — Tools for Farmers. [ARTICLE]

Tools for Farmers.

Don’t buy a chest filled with tools ready for work. If you have had a good deal of experience and know what you want, you can buy a chest and select the tools yourself, bpt if you get one which some one else has furnished you may, to be sure, get a good set of tools, but there will be many for which you will find but little use. Even regular mechanics have different ways of using tools, and an ingenious amateur will often make shift to do without certain tools which a carpenter or a blacksmith considers indispensable. Here are some good suggestions which we clip from the Agriculturist: “ Every farmer should ’have a small room, tight and warm, which he can lock, and where he can keep his small tools. Then he wants a good solid work-bench, with an iron vise on one side and a wooden one on the other. For iron working, he wants a solid piece of iron for an anvil, a seven-pound steel face-hammer, a riveting hammer, one large and one small cold chisel, two or three punches from one-fourth to three-eighths inch, arimmer and counter-sink, to be used with bitstock, a screw- plate that will cut'a screw from one-fourth to three-fourths inch ; then with round iron of the various sizes, and ready-made nuts, he can make any bolt he wishes. For carpenter work he wants a square, a shaviDg-horse, drawing knife, a set of planes, auger from one-half to two inches, bits from one-fourth to five-eighths inch, bit-stock, thin chisel from one-fourth to one inch, framing chisels from one to two inches, a tine , hand-saw with coarse cross cut and rip saw, large cross-cut saw for logs, and a grindstone.” —Christian Union.