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Show Attention Farmers. There Is nothing that comes nearer giving your concspondent the rickets, as he rides along the public highways in the richest districts in the United States than to see the amount of good machinery, rusting and rotting down, unhitched from, and left where last used, coveicd with a mass of mud and oveigiown with weeds. This reckless and extravagant waste, this utter ills-regard ills-regard of every principal of economy should not and can not hone to have an abiding place In the management of any farm wheie they have the remotest re-motest expectation of succeeding. It might have been so hi the olden times, i when lands weie woith less and taxes lower; when it cost Infinitely less to I live and tiavel; when wages and cost of maintenance weie far below what they aie today; when our pride ian to much lower standards and the advantages ad-vantages wc have today at an increasing increas-ing expense were not to be had. The necessary machinery requiied in the operation of a good quarter section sec-tion farm can not be purchased for much less than three hundred dollars. Many of these, unless well housed and properly cared for will be of little service ser-vice after two seasons, ;thc replacing of which Is an extravagant Item of expense, ex-pense, taken Into consideration with the other tlxcd charges on the farm. Mowers, binders and hay rakes j;o down to a stage of usclessness very fast when left out to keep company with the owlsand gophers. The matter mat-ter of decaying is not the only loss to be calculated, but the loss of time and money In getting them started the following spring and summer, due from an accumulation of rust and dirt. Now Is a good time to make some new resolutions and put them into execution; go out by the old straw stack and bring )n the harrow; "go down In the low lands among the dead grass, where you will tlnd the mowgr in a weeping conuuion, uring it in; look there by the hog lot gate and you will sec tho binder, where the hogs and calves have made a scratching post of It, for lo, these many days, let's have It; out In the corn Held last laid by- one snugly tossed up In the lence corner and two half burled in the mud you will lind three line new corn plows, bettor fetch them along while your resolutions last. Gather them all up and place them In a comfortable com-fortable position and cover them over; a nice convenient shed will answer j best, but if this Is not to be had, a few' loads of that slough hay, well sup-' sup-' ported on somo posts will sulllce, but be suro the fowls are not allowed free range among them, or they will not be much Improved by tho surroundings. All canvas should be removed, carefully care-fully rolled up and placed In the dry; the sickles taken out, ton caicfully rolled up, and placed in and under the wheels to keep them out of the dirt; see that nothing rests against the delicate deli-cate frame stmctuics that by constant pressure might warp them out of line; where there arc springs used In their adjustment, loosen them also: be sure that all the shovels and stubble plows are well oiled with some soft oil or tallow common axle gieasc Is very good for this purpose, the only objection objec-tion Is the removal In thospring; however, how-ever, by pouring a little scalding water on them you will experience no trouble in this direction. Now a day or two taken out of tho Held at this timo of the year will repay a remark-able remark-able interest on tho time in caring for your machinery In this way, and it is the solemn wish of tho writer that It will never be necessary to call any one's attention to this dereliction of duty In the future. Pick It all up and house it away be a farmer, not a sloth. K. A. Wilson. In the Nebraska Farmer. |