CHAPTER VIII 



DIRECTIONS AS TO TOOLS 



A Long List That Looks Very Formidable 

 IN Size and Price, but is Thorough- 

 ly Practical and Useful — Exactly 

 What These Tools are Used for, and 

 How They should be Cared for. 



WHEN a man from town becomes the 

 lord of a manor, the first step he takes, 

 as a rule, is to fill his tool house with every con- 

 ceivable kind of farm machinery regardless of 

 expense and of the use to which it is to be put; 

 or else he goes to the other extreme and fails to 

 provide even sufficient machinery to carry on the 

 work In hand. 



In this day of high-priced labor the aim of 

 every manufacturer is to do as much work as 

 possible by machinery; and as farming is, in 

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