THE SCYTHE
If you have a scythe, use a length of old motor tubing as a glove for the blade. And always be careful to drop the tool blade down when you leave it for a minute or tw0 while engaged mowing a lawn or a rough grass patch. One friend, who forgot this precaution, stumbled and came to grief recently. Another scythe hint: Never use a short sharpening stone. Stones are brittle, but are also cbeap enough to make it easy for you to buy one every week if necessary. A flat file really makes a better sharpener than a stone or carbarandum stick. Always make the last rub on the bottom edge of the scythe blade. That keeps the edge right for shaving lawn or butfalo grass. N,ever use a good scythe on rough weed stuff. Any old chopper will do that sort of job.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 30, 29 October 1937, Page 8
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