CARE OF IMPLEMENTS

Hawera Star, Volume LI, 3 January 1931, Page 13

CARE OF IMPLEMENTS

Agricultural implements, are more expensive nowadays than they were before the war, but because oif that are they always treated with the greatest respect that they deserve and which it ays to give them? Too- often does one see the hay-rake, the grass cutter on- the hinder left standing about for months without any protection m 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 towards protecting it from the weather. Hot sun and wind, as 1 wel'i as rain, can dio harcn 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 of water now and again, might have saved them from shrinking to the danger point. No one. can expect wood, or even iron, to last as it should if nothing he everdone to prevent decay or rust. A pot of paint, which costs little, may often he the means of putting years of life on to some implement, hut let it he of the right kind.