SMALL THINGS.
Every farmer should have a small room,' tight and warm, which he can lock, and whore he can keep his small tools. Then ho wants a good solid work-bench, with an iron vice 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, a rimmer and countersink, to be used with bit stock; a screwplate that will cut a screw from one-fourth to threeeighths inch ;' then, with round iron of the various sizes and ready made nuts, ho can make any bolt he wishes. For carpenter work lie wants a square, a shaving-horse, drawing-knife, a set of planes, auger from one-half to two inches, a fine hand saw, with coarse crosscut and rip saw, large crosscut for logs, and a grindstone.
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Patea Mail, Volume III, Issue 305, 20 March 1878, Page 4
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