CARE OF FARM IMPLEMENTS.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 19, 23 January 1929, Page 21

CARE OF FARM IMPLEMENTS.

It is surprising, considering how much the fanner has to pay for his implements, to find how little care is taken of them on scores of farms. In the north and the south it is the same. Ploughs, harrows, discs, rollers, drills and even mowers are to be seen left out on all parts of the farm at the mercy of every damaging change in the weather. It is a common sight to find these instances of neglect. They can be seen from the windows of railway trains and from the highway. It is not hard to tell whether a piece of machinery has been simply left pending the completion of a job or whether it has already weathered a dozen storms and a score of glistering suns. In one of the paddocks of a very widely-known South Otago farmer, the writer saw an instance of such carelessness that would in all probability prove costly to the man "/n question. A set of tine harrows had been left out in the corner of the paddock, and were coin p'etely overgrown with grass. But one of the horses grazing in the paddock found them with its foot, and was weifc caught up. Of course, the harrows would suffer little damage from the animal's attempts to extricate itself, but it is very doubtful whether the horse would do much work for a good while.