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Show THE SILENT TOLL OF WASTE. We are told that the farmers of the United States buy $200,000,000 worth of machinery a year. What portion of this is made necessary because of thoughtlessness, carelessness care-lessness and false economy which results in expensive machinery being housed on the dry sides of fences and sheltered under the protection of leafless trees, can only be estimated. The observing ones who travel through rural districts do not hesitate to go on record with the assertion that at least 90 per cent of the $200,000,000 worth of machinery rusts out and rots out rather than wears out. Inexcusable as has such reckless extravagance been in the past, it represents a sinful, unpatriotic waste today. It costs little to erect, paint and keep in repair an implement im-plement shed sufficiently large to.shelter all form machinery ma-chinery used. So little does it cost as compared with 'the expensive and unnecessary depreciation of machinery left out in the weather that one need not be a mathematician mathema-tician to figure that true economy demands the silent toll of farm machinery waste must no longer obtain. The present cost of all kinds of implements, the almost certain future cost and scarcity of farm implements, dictate the manifest need of an implement shed large enough to house every utensil and dry enough to double or even quadruple its perid of serviceability. Kimball's Dairy Farmer. ' |