Tools for the Boys.

Wairarapa Standard, Volume XX, Issue 2018, 17 January 1887, Page 3

Tools for the Boys.

By all means provide the boys on the tarn with tools by which they can learn the rudiments at least of the carpenter’s trade. Every farmer ought to be so familiar with the use of the •aw and square and plane that he can do ordinary jobs for himself, and not be obliged to let them go undone or call in the services of a professional. If fathers would provide tools and allow the boys to use them, and Lot only allow but encourage the use of them, most boys would soon become 1 most proficient in the management of | them. If this were done a consider ! able amount of money might be kept | in the family, when there was a new j shed, barn, or other outbuilding to be built. It is not be expected that every boy will be able to do such work as is required shout barns and sheds. The reason why they are not so is because the? are not given a chance to become familiar with the use of the tool? required in doing so. Many farmer* have nothing but a hammer and a saw. I id* is not as it should be. The jobs that the boys can do will soon save the farmer more than enough to pav for a good set of tools If tome one at home is able to do such work, the chances are that the buildings wdi be kept iri repair, but if no ore in the p ace is ” handy with tools” the needed repairs will be neglected, and there will be consequent loss, and the ultimate expenditure of a considerable sum of money when the farmer gets around” to bare the necessary repairs made. The outfit on the farm *h >u!d include a set of blacksmith's tools. The boys will like to experiment with them, and experiment will soon lead to tolerable proficiency in their use. It often saves a good deal of time and vexation when, if a breakdown occurs in a busy time, there is some one on the place able to in -ml a chc.ii or weld an iron. Give the boys tool* to w rk with, and it will arouse and educate them, and you will find the outlay to be an exceeding!' profitable investment.