LONDON WOOL SALES TO-MORROW.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 450, 8 March 1909, Page 2

LONDON WOOL SALES TO-MORROW.

Tile second series of tlio London wool sales will begin to-morrow. Thcro aro expectations I of an udvunco ii). urioos.

CARE OF lAWLEMENTS. A FEW USEFUL REMINDERS. I often imagine to myself (writes 60f travelling correspondent) how cheerful the agents of the implement makers must feci, as they go along the roads and seo tho numbers of all sorts of implements left out in all weathers, for months at a time. The life of a set of disc harrows, for instance, w)ii:h I saw in a paddock one day, must be very much reduced; they had evidently been, there at least six months. A nice condition the discs would be in when lifted out of tlio ground, I'louelis, harrows, and rollers are consistently left out, while the paint-brusll on an implement which requires it occasionally is a very infrequent occurrence. I saw a reaper and binder tlio other day which had been out in all this dry weather and hot sun for several weeks. No wonder thes« things go wrong when required next season. It recalls to my memory a farmer who had nothing but breakages and stoppages, from 0110 reason or another, when ho commenced his harvest this season. "First it was the knotter that went wrong; it would tie half a dozoli sheaves, and then miss n dozen. Nest it was some other part of the machine which went wrong. It took almost as much time to fix up the machine as to reap the crop, and the chief cause was that tlio machine had been leftvout too long in tlio weather after the last harvest was finished. There is no doubt that implements and tools of all kinds, particularly thoso with any wood-work about them, would last much longer if kept under cover, even if only under a tree, and still longer if given a coat of paint now and then. But of course the makers would not have euch a demand for .their manufactures if tho farmers were as careful as one I know at Bonny Glen. Ono of the first things ho did when ho took the farm, was to put up an imple--1 ment and cart shed, everything as soon as dono with was put into tho shed, and tho result is that his , implements and carta always 1 look in good order.