ECONOMY ON THE FARM

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 8 January 1931, Page 6

ECONOMY ON THE FARM

CARE OF IMPLEMENTS Agricultural implements are more expensive nowadays than they were before the war, but because of that are they always treated with the greater respect they* deserve and which it pays to give them? Too often, says “London Live Stock Journal,” does one see the hayrake, the grass-cutter, or the self-bind-er left standing about for months without any protection in the place where it was last used. That cannot be good for it. If it cannot be brought home at once, some means at least might be taken toward protecting it from the weather. Hot sun and wind, as well as rain, can do harm to any implement made in part of wood, and especially to wheels. How many carts and waggons are there that have broken down, usually at the most inconvenient time, because no one thought of looking to the wheels in dry weather. A bit or two of sacking thrown over them, or a bucket or two of water now and again, might have saved them from shrinking to the danger point. No ono can expect wood, or even iron, to last as it should if nothing he ever done to prevent decay or rust. A pot of paint, which costs little, may often ho the means of putting years of life on to some implement, but let it be of the right kind. Many New Zealand farmers need this advice.