. Canadian forest industries January-June 1923. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. C£n/TO£; -£>73 ~& 'tâ CâI. Plan showing well-equipped implement shed. As one dealer puts it, "implement sheds are cheap and necessary; farm machinery is necessary but not cheap" giving more attention each year to providing proper storage facili- ties for their equipment. It is agreed that a machine, when suitably sheltered, will give double the wear and service than one not pro- perly housed. Of course, much depends upon the mechanism,
. Canadian forest industries January-June 1923. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. C£n/TO£; -£>73 ~& 'tâ CâI. Plan showing well-equipped implement shed. As one dealer puts it, "implement sheds are cheap and necessary; farm machinery is necessary but not cheap" giving more attention each year to providing proper storage facili- ties for their equipment. It is agreed that a machine, when suitably sheltered, will give double the wear and service than one not pro- perly housed. Of course, much depends upon the mechanism, wheth- er it is complicated, easily gets out of order or is sensitive in its operation; for instance, the Ohio State University some time ago conducted an investigation regarding the average life of various implements when housed and when not housed. Here is the result obtained by a questionnaire sent out to two hundred farmers, and the figures represent the farmers' own estimate of the value of the care of implements:â When Not Housed Housed Cultivator 12 7 Corn Planter 17 7 Binder 14 7 Disc Harrow 15 8 Drum Rake â 16 7 ]/2 Side Delivery Rake 12 8 Drill 14 6 y2 Plow 14 9 Hay Loader 15 7 Manure Spreader 12 6 Mower - 15 9 Wagon 22 8 In a recent letter to the "Canada Lumberman," the sales man- ager for the Massey-Harris Co., Toronto who has given consider- able attention to the subject of the proper housing of farm imple- ments, comprehensively sums up the Situation as follows:âWe have never made any attempt to figure this up closely on our own account, although roughly we have found that implements will last if cared for at all properly on an average of ten years. Generally speaking, farmers in Eastern Canada have come to realize, more so than their brothers in the West, the advisability of keeping their im- plements under cover, and in the East it is the exception for farmers to leave implements out of doors the year around. On the other hand, while we bel
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