Farm Work on Rainy Days.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 6 May 1910, Page 4

Farm Work on Rainy Days.

* A GOOD SUGGESTION. The desirability of introducing method into farm wrsrk is never more noticeable than on rainy days. On a well managed larm, says an exchange, there is no time for idling, everyone having plenty to do, whether wet or fine. It is a great advantage to. keep a list ol jobs to be done on rainy days always hanging up .in an accessible position. It should be written on, stiff, white pasteboard, with a large., round, distinct hand, so that every hired man can read it. Or it could be printed for a couple of shillings at the , local newspaper office, on a foot-square card. All hands are instructed, whenever rain comes on, instead of standing idle under sheds or in 'barns, to repair at once to the workshop, and commence on such work as may be named first on the list, or may have a pencil mark drawn under it, or which they may think needs doing first, according to the circumstances of the case. The following is a sample of a list of this kind:—l. Clean and sweep floors of outhouses, sheds, etc. 2. Clean all tools, harrows, ploughs, cultivators, wagons, hoes, spades, and everything you can think of. Put all tools accurately in their proper places, if any have been left out. Oil all tools made of wood or partly wood, as ploughs, harrows, wagons, rakes, spades, etc. Clean and oil harness. Sprout of assort potatoes. Grind hoes or spades. Clean hen-house and whitewash it. Shell corn. During wet weather, when. not. raining, repair fences, gates, etc.; pile manure, scrape vard, spade grass around trees, etc.