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Show Cache Has Expert Farmer Several, in Fact; But Peterson Takes the Best Care of Machinery. The disposition of the average farmer farm-er to leave his machinery in the weather to rust and rot away has been tho subject of many an urgent article In the farm papers and local press throughout the country and It appears ap-pears that these urgent appeals have gone unheeded by most. However, there are a few farmers In this valley that approach the Ideal way of farming and at least one sets an excellent example exam-ple as to how farm machinery should be cared for while not In use. That man Is Peter Peterson, of Petersboro. He has a dry farm over there, one of the best of Its kind In the valley, consisting con-sisting of almost a thousand acres. On that large farm one will notice that there Is not a thing out of place. Mr. Peterson can go out on the darkest dark-est night and lay his hand upon a monkey wrench that has been in use Qvo or ten years, a wrench that Is free from rust and other corroding material. materi-al. It is the same way with all his farm machinery. He has header boxes over there that have been in use twenty years and they are practically as good as the day they were made. The secret for those boxes being In use today Is that they have been cared for, have been placed under shelter free from moisture and other warping Influences. In-fluences. The same treatment Is accorded ac-corded his mowers, plows, rakes, header; head-er; everything has a home on his farm. f When one drives upon his farm it would be thought machlneless, but It Is supplied with all the best machinery machin-ery for the best maintenance of the farm. Mr. Peterson sees a more paying pay-ing investment in keeping his machinery machin-ery under sheltcf than in leaving it under some tree for the chickens to roost on. The big machlno manufacturers manufac-turers in tho United States state that the farmers use up their machinery faster by leaving it out In the weather than if the machine had been In actu al use for the same length of time. One can tell whether a farmer is prosperous, pros-perous, has a bank account, a day off, good machinery, crops, etc., Just by the way he cares for the farm Implements. Imple-ments. Mr. Peterson has all the above mentioned men-tioned Items and as a result Is doing something besides existing he Is living liv-ing the life of the farmer or the "New Earth." |