CHAPTER III GENERATING MECHANICAL POWER TO DRIVE MODERN FARM MACHINERY 74 CHAPTER IV DRIVEN MACHINES 100 CHAPTER V WORKING THE SOIL 137 CHAPTER VI HANDLING THE HAY CROP 163 CHAPTER VII FARM CONVEYANCES 179 CHAPTER VIII MISCELLANEOUS FARM CONVENIENCES 197 INDEX 241 FARM MECHANICS CHAPTER I THE FARM SHOP WITH TOOLS FOR WORKING WOOD AND IRON FARM SHOP AND IMPLEMENT HOUSE The workshop and shed to hold farm implements should look as neat and attractive as the larger buildings. Farm implements are expensive. Farm machinery is even more so. When such machinery is all properly housed and kept in repair the depreciation is estimated at ten per cent a year. When the machines are left to rust and weather in the rain and wind the loss is simply ruinous. More machinery is required on farms than formerly and it costs more. Still it is not a question whether a farmer can afford a machine. If he has sufficient work for it he knows he cannot afford to get along without it and he must have a shed to protect it from the weather when not in use. In the first place the implement shed should be large enough to accommodate all of the farm implements and machinery without crowding and it should be well built and tight enough to keep out the wind and small animals, including chickens and sparrows. The perspective and plan shown herewith is twenty-four feet in width and sixty feet in length. [Illustration: Figure 1.--Perspective View of the Farm Shop, Garage and Implement Shed. The doors to the right are nearly 12 feet high to let in a grain separator over night, or during the winter, or a load of hay in case of a sudden storm.] [Illustration: Figure 2.--Floor Plan of Shop, Garage and Storage. The building is 60 feet wide and 24 feet from front to back. The doors of the garage and tool shed are made to open full width, but 8 feet is wide enough for the shop door. All doors open out against posts and are fastened to prevent blowing shut. The work shop is well lighted and the stationary tools are carefully placed for convenience in doing repair work of all kinds. The pipe vise is at the doorway between the shop and garage so the handles of the pipe tools may swing through the doorway and the pipe may lie full length along the narrow pipe bench.] The doorways provide headroom sufficient for the highest machines, and the width when the double doors are opened and the center post removed is nearly twenty feet, which is sufficient for a binder in field condition or a two-horse spring-tooth rake.