Supply of Tools, etc. 



ously near giving way to anger. The moral is obvious. 

 Makeshift tools are seldom satisfactory. Perhaps pos- 

 sessing a fund of ingenuity we make tools for ourselves. 

 We pride ourselves on their value, their strength, their 

 everlastingness qualities which we find very soon dis- 

 appear. It is generally safer and cheaper to buy good 

 tools direct from the manufacturer, and be sure that 

 they are what they are said to be. These remarks apply 

 throughout, whether for scythes, mowers, spades, forks, 

 barrows, baskets, or knives. In all cases pay a fair 

 price for a good implement and avoid the middleman, 

 where the cost is greater or the quality less. 



There is need, I think, for a remark also on the 

 proper keeping of tools, by which they last much longer 

 than under careless treatment. If a tool is put away 

 dirty, it will surely not last long. If a lawn-mower is 

 not often oiled and cleaned it will very soon become 

 inefficient. It is dictated by common-sense as well as by 

 economy that tools should always be well cleaned after 

 use, that they should be well oiled, and be put away in 

 order in a dry place. 



Supply of Manure. 



It is most important that there should be abundance 

 of manure available to be put on the land. Whether 

 this manure be of an animal or vegetable origin matters 

 little, so that sufficient can be found by some means to 

 repair the fertility of the soil. Now there is much talk 

 about fertility, but few people understand what it really 

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