12 The Colorado Experiment Station. 
steam engine oil and is less expensive. The cylinder oils must 
be able to stand a great deal of heat. A good grade of ordinary 
machine oil will lubricate all parts of the engines, excepting the 
cylinders. 
Oiling New Machinery .—On account of paint in the bearings 
of new machinery, the moving parts often run hard for the first 
few days. This paint can be easily removed by the application of 
kerosene or a mixture of equal parts of kerosene and machine oil, 
as the machine is being started. 
CARE OF MACHINERY WHEN NOT IN USE. 
To properly care for the farm machinery means that it must 
be well selected, kept in good repair and adjustment, oiled thor¬ 
oughly, cleaned before housing, and it must have all wearing parts 
well greased when not in use, and painted when necessary, and it 
must be properly housed. 
At least one-half of “good care” consists in keeping the ma¬ 
chinery properly repaired, in good adjustment and thoroughly 
oiled when in use. To neglect any of the lines of care mentioned, 
means serious damage and loss to the machine. 
The investigation showed that a small percentage of the 
farmers were taking the proper care of their machinery all the 
time. Certain farmers were found who gave their machinery ex¬ 
cellent care when it was in use but it was given no care between 
seasons. 
The investigation shows that there is a decided tendency to 
neglect the housing of machinery throughout the State. On but 
22.15 P er cent investigated farms was all the machinery 
housed. It was partly housed on 39.60 per cent of the farms, and 
on 38.25 per cent of the farms no attempt was made to house any 
of the machinery except the buggies, carriages and automobiles. 
With the one exception of binder canvasses only 2.01 per cent 
of the farmers removed bright or delicate parts of their machinery 
for storage. 
The fact that such a large percentage of the machinery is 
allowed to stand in the open is partly, but not wholly, explained 
by the marked scarcity of suitable machine sheds upon the farms. 
Of the investigated farms only 19.46 per cent were equipped 
with closed machine sheds. 34.23 per cent had some form of open 
shed and 46.31 per cent had no machine sheds at all. In 74 
per cent of the open sheds the machinery served as a hen roost 
while the chickens were allowed to roost in but 31 per cent of the 
closed sheds. Hogs, calves, etc., were allowed to run at will in 
19.6 per cent of the open sheds and in only 10.3 per cent of the 
closed sheds. The fact that in 62.5 per cent of all the sheds in¬ 
vestgated the machinery served as a hen roost, and in 15 per cent 
