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Show If , . , f i FARM IMPLEMENTS. A Large! Investment That Shollld ' Be Well Looked After. If you hovp not gathered, up, cleaned clean-ed and proporly housed your farming farm-ing implements, nnd protected them , from. rust and. weather, do so at onco. befpro tho snows and rains como on., ' Tho totnl amount of tho farmer's In- vestment In niachlnory Is necessarily large, and .It Is tho part of prudenco 4 for him to tnko good euro of It. In 1 a lua'chlno shop or factory, ovory pleco of machinery Is In ubo day after day. Tho farmer Is obliged to buy nnd ' - keep In repair n dozon machines 1 which ho has uso for only n fow days r- out of tho year. Ho runs his mowing machlno perhaps two weeks nltogeth-i nltogeth-i er; his binder hnlf that tlmo, and his hay tedder porhnps not threo days nil told. Tho wheat nnd corn drills 15 como In for only a fow dnys' uso, and tho potato plonter nnd dlggor for no 1 longer porlod. During tho, romalndor of tho year It Is necessary to caro for i nnd proporly houso thoso mochlncs In . 9rdr to. !eeP thoni In good condition. A fow years ago nn Ingenious Ynn- kco Invented what Is cnlled a "Universal "Uni-versal Tool,'! consisting of n hollow j hantllo with n scrow top nnd holding n chisel, scrow-drlver. jglmlet, tnck puller and many other small handy tools which may bo clamped in tho small end of the handlo as needed. Perhaps, says tho Farm Journal, an equally Ingenious person will some day Invent a "universal machlno," which, by an oxchnngo of parts and attachments, may sorvo tho combined purposes which now make necessary many Implements. Such nn Inven tlon would prove a great bonefactlon to agriculture. |