270 FARM MACHINERY REPAIR 



ism to stay out in the weather for months. These machines 

 depreciate in value, become rusty, and are weakened, and 

 there is a loss of time when they fail to give service after they 

 are taken into the field; also, a loss in production. 



237. Three Considerations Housing, Repairing, and 

 Painting. The proper care of machinery might be classified 

 under three heads (1) housing, (2) repairing, (3) painting. 

 In the housing of farm equipment, we do not have to provide 

 an expensive building. The implements are not affected by 

 cold weather. In sections where the dust is bad, the walls 

 and roofs of the buildings should be made tight enough to pre- 

 vent its entrance. It has been estimated that the value of 

 machinery on the average farm at the present time is about 

 $1,000. For such an amount of machinery, the farmer can 

 well spend $400 or $500 for a good machinery house. Plans 

 for such a shed can be secured from the U. S. Department of 

 Agriculture or nearly every state agricultural college. 



In the repairing of farm equipment, the farmer should be 

 systematic. If the machines are examined on completing a 

 job, and there is not time to repair them at that time, each 

 part should be labeled so that parts can be ordered, and at a 

 later date they can be replaced. The time to repair equip- 

 ment is not when a machine is needed in the field, but during 

 the time when the machines are in the machinery shed. 



In regard to painting, it is well to repaint all wooden parts of 

 farm implements, as it not only increases the life of the imple- 

 ments, but improves their appearance, and where a machine 

 is sold after it has been in use a number of years, the cost of 

 the addition of paint is repaid many fold. Quite often, where 

 the farmer looks after his equipment properly, he will find 



