Farmer's magazine (January-December 1920) . r three ply together ancnail in place. This class of hinge often does service for the small trajdoors in hen houses and others of isimilar nature Weather Guards for Padlocks Padlocks on barn and granary dooro,ften suflTer from their exposure tcrain and weather. A simple manneto protect them is by taking a largpiece of shoe leather and placing iover the lock and tacking the uppepart to the casing. In this way it affords a flap that can be readily raisecenough to lock and unlock the padlonl Is This the First Tractor? THERE is an old saying that a manst
Farmer's magazine (January-December 1920) . r three ply together ancnail in place. This class of hinge often does service for the small trajdoors in hen houses and others of isimilar nature Weather Guards for Padlocks Padlocks on barn and granary dooro,ften suflTer from their exposure tcrain and weather. A simple manneto protect them is by taking a largpiece of shoe leather and placing iover the lock and tacking the uppepart to the casing. In this way it affords a flap that can be readily raisecenough to lock and unlock the padlonl Is This the First Tractor? THERE is an old saying that a manstarts a heap of trouble when hesticks a plow in the ground. The fellow who started the tractoridea also started a heap of trouble, tojudge by the debates we hear on thevalue of the different types, sorts, In starting a discussion as to wh^made the first tractor, we may bistarting something. This illustration shows a home-made tractor, constructed twenty years ago. The outfit consists of a Turner Single Cylinder Engine mounted on a truck mad. sizes, and descriptions of way you look at it, you must ad-mit that the fellow who made the firsttractor started something. Great inventions have always beenstarted by some lazy man, gettingtired of hard work and figuring outa machine that would let him sit downand rest while it did the work. of binder wheels, with an old kitcheichair for the seat. As it was a Turner Engine, th(manufacturers of the Turner Simplicity Tractor claim the first tractor wa^a Turner. It will be interesting tcknow if any of our readers have photo-graphs or information relative tomore primitive tractor than this. ^, Farmers Magazine 41 ! yet remain in position to turn3 rain or snow. Keeping Paint Brushes Used paint brushes may be kept softd pliable from one time of usage un- another by placing uaem in a can water. Loose Wagon Tires ..cose tires on wagon rims can behtened, temporarily, by dipping oldks in water and placing them over= and rim and allowing
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