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  FARM MECHANICS

  MACHINERY AND ITS USE TO SAVE
  HAND LABOR ON THE FARM

  Including

  Tools, Shop Work, Driving and Driven
  Machines, Farm Waterworks, Care
  and Repair of Farm Implements


  By

  HERBERT A. SHEARER

  AGRICULTURIST

  Author of "Farm Buildings with Plans and Descriptions"

  _ILLUSTRATED WITH THREE
  HUNDRED ORIGINAL DRAWINGS_


  CHICAGO
  FREDERICK J. DRAKE & CO.
  Publishers




  Copyright 1918
  By Frederick J. Drake & Co.
  Chicago




PREFACE


More mechanical knowledge is required on the farm than in any other line
of business. If a farmer is not mechanically inclined, he is under the
necessity of employing someone who is.

Some farms are supplied with a great many handy contrivances to save
labor. Farmers differ a great deal in this respect. Some are natural
mechanics, some learn how to buy and how to operate the best farm
machinery, while others are still living in the past.

Some farmers who make the least pretensions have the