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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
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Business. 
‘A CENT SPOILS THE FACE OF A DOLLAR.” 
A penny's a very small thing we are told, 
It doesn’t take long for to earn it, 
A dollar exactly one hundred can hold, 
A fact! Though it’s hard for to learn It. 
And when some scamp penny go°s off after sport, 
He makes the good dollar look tearful, 
While if he’d have sense and stay home as he ought 
He’d keep all the family cheerful. 
I'd just like to take the young scamp right in hand, 
And while I gripped hand at his collar. 
Just yell in his ears till he’d feign understand, 
“ A cent spoils the face of a dollar.” 
It’s easy enough to throw pennies around 
And not miss them once while they’re going. 
But nicks on the good dollar’s face will be found 
Where every last cent makes a showing. 
And while the smart penny walks off with a grin, 
While good mother Dollar is sorrowed. 
The little scamp’s troubles are sure to begin 
In paying the money he’s borrowed. 
For 99cents will be Just one cent short, 
Ignoring his impudent cboler 
The others will pass him and look back in sport, 
“ A cent spoils the face of a dollar ! ” 
That New Cream Separator. 
Mr. Dibble tells us, on page 431, of a new device for forcing 
cream out of milk. Why does this heavy pressure act thus 
upon the fat In the milk ? There must be a cause for every 
effect. Prof. W. W. Cooke of the Vermont Experiment 
Station, sends the following note of explanation : 
“The principle of its working I think can be explained 
in two ways. The first Is that the Increase of pressure 
makes a large difference between the specific gravity of fat 
and the serum, just in the same way that the separator 
does, but probably a good deal of the effect of this in¬ 
creased pressure is due to the getting rid of the contained 
air and gases in the milk when it is in the milk can under 
ordinary conditions. The same effects and the same 
reasons have long been known In connection with the rais¬ 
ing of cream by just the opposite of this formula, that is, 
by exhausting the air instead of by increasing the pres¬ 
sure, but although it Is too soon to foretell the future of 
any invention that has had so little trial, yet I will venture 
to prophesy that the fate of this machine will be the same 
as the fate of the other and for the game reasons: the cost¬ 
liness of the apparatus, Its liability to get out of repair 
and the fact that it needs a skilled helper to run it rather 
than the ordinary farm hand. Moreover, I should expect 
that the quality of the cream and the butter made from it 
would be Injured by it from the fact that instead of aerat¬ 
ing the cream, as is done by the other process of cream 
raising, this form not only keeps in every particle of bad¬ 
ness that may happen to be in the milk, but adds more in 
the air pumped into it, unless extra care is taken to have 
that air pure and sweet.” w. w. COOKE. 
Small Fruit Business In Missouri. 
I secure pickers in the town and neighboring country. 
I have no trouble to secure them on my Olden Fruit Farm, 
notwithstanding the country is sparsely settled. I pay 
with tickets—2, 4, 8, 10, 20 and 50 cents—and they are good 
anywhere. Stores will take them and pay the money. 
Fifty quarts of raspberries or 100 of blackberries make an 
extra day’s work. The boxes are carried to the packing 
shed (four at a time) and there put into crates and packed 
and shipped that night from the farm at Olden, or put 
into cellars and held until morning if near the market. I 
use the Leslie octagon box and a 24-box crate. From my 
fruit farm at Olden it is 300 miles, and I sell directly to the 
commission-men or groceries. I evaporate the surplus and 
will this year can a large portion of the fruit. It pays well 
either to can or evaporate The prospect for the year’s 
business here is good for plenty of fruits and propor¬ 
tionate prices. E. A. GOODMAN. 
Missouri. 
The Location of the “ TIddle.” 
Referring to The Rural’s mention of the entertaining 
game, Tiddle-de-winks, P. 405, which we are told the 
farmers are ready to play at by snapping their products 
over the heads of the middlemen into the central market 
“ wink-pot,” if they could only find a tiddle ; but let me 
ask why the agricultural specialty does not answer for 
that purpose ? Not a little, contracted specialty that 
doesn’t give an active man standing room, but one that 
allows him plenty of scope and yet keeps him out of the 
“ scatteration ” of mixed farming. Such a man, in his 
marketing, is shooting at one wink-pot all the time, and 
sooner or later can get the range of it. The man who sells 
much of one thing, instead of a little of many things, can, 
if he is reasonably bright, become as proficient in market¬ 
ing his specially as the middlemen themselves. The next 
step is for the specialists of a kind to get together and 
make common cause in their selling and buying. The 
Kaw Valley Potato Association, for instance, will have, in 
round numbers, 800 acres of potatoes to sell this year. Bas¬ 
ing an estimate upon the present favorable outlook, they 
can fairly count upon a yield of 200 bushels per acre. This 
will give their representative 160,000 bushels to handle—400 
car-loads of 400 bushels each. What is the matter with 
that for a “ tiddle ? ” edwin taylor. 
Wayandotte Co., Kan. 
Glass-lined Butter Packages. 
The Kneeland Creamery Company makes an elegant glass 
butter jar cased in a rubber jointed, wooden box, that is an 
admirable butter package. But, as The Rural says, on 
page 405, Its butter-preserving qualities are in doubt. The 
greatest trouble with crocks for packing butter is due to 
unnecessary weight, and often to imperfect glazing. If 
one can get the old-fashioned, gray, fire-glazed crock 
with a lining as smooth as glass, it will be all right, but 
the cheap crocks, vitrified and half-baked are of doubtful 
value. The glazing on the cheap crocks Is imperfect and 
full of very minute “ pin holes ” which communicate with 
the porous clay walls of the crock, and make a very poor 
protection for the butter. I recall a crock of butter of my 
own that when opened showed a white streak next to the 
crock all the way around. When the butter was removed, 
I broke up the crock to see where the trouble was 
and found the half-baked clay quite thoroughly sat¬ 
urated with the fine oils of the butter that had percolated 
through the thin, imperfect glazing. Where the glazing 
is melted on and is perfect, the crock, save the heft, Is all 
right and a good keeper of butter, and is no heavier than 
a glass jar with a wooden case to protect it from breakage 
and changes of temperature. JOHN gould. 
Portage Co., Ohio. 
CLOVER FOR THE SILO. 
I have had no personal experience with clover in the silo. 
As my lands are low and very rich they are better adapted 
to corn than clover, and I can raise more fodder to the 
acre with the former than with the latter. But my private 
opinion is that a ton of clover ensilage is equal in feeding 
value to one of corn. Inclosed find a clipping from Hoard’s 
Dairyman by Chas. Thorp, with whom I am personally 
acquainted and 1 know him to be reliable, c. R. BEACH, 
“In the year 1889 I put eight loads of the first crop of 
clover in my silo for a trial. I commenced feeding it to my 
cows the first day, as my pasture was short. When it had 
cured a few days I commenced feeding it to my horses, and 
continued feeding it to them and the cows as long as It 
lasted, which was about four weeks, and I never saw 
horses go through the harvest better. I liked that so well 
that I put in nearly all the second crop I had. That also 
made sweet ensilage, but I think I let it get too ripe, as 
there were a few dry, moldy places in it. 
“ In 1890 I put in the first crop. I began putting in as 
soon as the blossoms began to turn. I started the rake as 
soon as I had two swaths cut. Green clover or dry should 
be raked twice so as to pitch well out of the windrows. Let 
the rake go twice around in the same place; run the teeth 
under each rakeful and turn it over; this takes it all out 
pf the mower’s tracks and leaves no scatterings. I mow 
enough for four loads, load two and go to the silo, draw 
the first one up the grade past the feed-cutter, and the 
second up to the cutter; put the horses on the power and 
cut the load that stands ready; back the wagon out of the 
way and let the other load down to the cutter by hand, cut 
it off and go to get two more. I have two men, and while 
they are loading the two loads we left ready In the field, I 
cut and rake two more and so on through the day. 
“No one Is needed on the wagons to load green clover. 
One man should be on each side of the wagon and one can 
drive right across each windrow ; in this way the men can 
put on from l A to 2 tons to the load if they take pains to 
build the corners and sides up straight. We can put in 
eight loads per day this way, from the time the dew is off 
in the morning till five o’clock in the evening. 
“Clover should never be put in with the dew on, for it 
will spoil if it is. I have never put any in without cut¬ 
ting, but I have seen it done, and prefer It cut. I did not 
cover and weight mine last year, and that is where I 
missed it. 
“The second crop will do very well without covering, as 
it rests not more than a month before it is open. But 
the first crop should be covered with two thicknesses of 
boards and weighted. Clover is not nearly so heavy and 
juicy as corn and therefore dries out much more quickly. 
“ This year I shall put in the first crop and wilt it some¬ 
what the first few days we work, but as it gets riper it 
will want to be wilted less. 
“ I have two pits in my silo now, and I think I shall 
have three for this season. Clover will not hold the heat 
like corn, and if I have a large surface uncovered it cools 
down faster than I can feed it and then it will freeze. I 
open from the top and keep the surface level. I feed an 
average of a bushel basket heaping full per day. 
“ My silo is built of wood with the exception of the first 
two feet, which are in the ground, and stoned and cemented; 
sills laid on this and stnds 2x10, and 2x6 would do just 
as well; drop siding outside of the studs is of common 
boards, tar paper, then matched flooring inside. When 
putting on the flooring I painted the tongue of each board 
before putting on another. I then painted the whole two 
coats, and I can’t see but that they are as good as ever to¬ 
day. For the corners I rip a 4x4 cornerwise, thus making 
two or three cornered strips, and nail them in. The par¬ 
titions are made of 2x8 matched lumber, some of the three 
cornered strips nailed on for cleats, and as fast as we fill 
the pit we put in partitions. We fill one pit full before 
we commence another. The first pit will settle enough to 
hold one load per day during the time we are filling the 
next. It should be leveled every night, and should not 
be left more than one day without having some fresh put 
In, as it molds on top very quickly. 
“We fill the pit last that is to be opened first. When 
we open the second pit we take out the partition as we 
work down. Partitions put in this way spoil no ensilage, 
as there are no doors nor studs In them. My silo is 12x30 
and 16 feet deep, and we put in 10 acres of clover in eight 
days. We opened it the 24th of October, and have fed 20 
head of cattle besides calves and quite a good deal to horses, 
and it is not all gone yet, April 15. 
“ I had 15 acres of clover and sold three acres of the first 
crop, made hay of the rest and all of the second crop, and 
I had more and better feed in the silo than all the rest. The 
15 acres of clover gave all the hay I had, and I have nearly 
half the second crop left. I shall run that through the cut¬ 
ter and feed it this summer while the cows are on pas¬ 
ture. Any one who has never tried this would be sur¬ 
prised to see how greedily they will eat it even while on 
good pasture.” 
BUCKWHEAT IN A NEW ENGLAND ORCHARD. 
Some months ago I asked The R. N.-Y.’s opinion about 
feeding Japanese Buckwheat to sheep. I did not feed 
largely of my buckwheat, as by comparing Its probable 
feeding value with that of other grain and also its market 
value, I thought it better to sell the buckwheat and buy 
for my sheep other grains the effect of which I felt sure 
of. The sheep were very fond of the buckwheat and would 
eat it greedily, and I saw no bad effects from it. I would 
not hesitate to use it as a feed for sheep if it seemed good 
business policy to do so. Although I raised nearly or 
quite 800 bushels of buckwheat of the .Japanese variety 
last season, I have now only a very small portion of it on 
hand which I expect to use as seed. It has met a very ready 
sale both as a feed for fowls and for flouring purposes. It 
makes the best of flour, our millers to the contrary not¬ 
withstanding. I am fully satisfied that their objection is 
chiefly on account of their milling facilities not being right 
to handle it to good advantage, and if they were once well 
prepared to mill it, the grain would be all right in their 
estimation. I regard this as an excellent crop, growing it 
as I do in my orenards in an off year for fruit; but more 
generally In my young growing orchards where I expect 
no fruit and do not want the trees to make new wood in the 
latter part of the season. I grew my crop of buckwheat 
last season at a cost of about 33 cents per bushel (machine 
measure) bagged ready for market. This leaves me, I am 
sure, as good a margin of profit as our Western brother 
gets in grain growing and I have a market almost at my 
door. I am greatly opposed to the idea of growing 
grain (other kinds) in an orchard, but I am much 
pleased with my experience with this crop, even if it is 
a secondary consideration with me. I aim to fertilize my 
trees well in spring, and till thoroughly until the middle of 
July, putting in the seed at the last cultivation, thus get¬ 
ting a good growth of wood in the first part of the season, 
when I want it, and the growth of buckwheat has a ten¬ 
dency to check the late growth of trees and cause the new 
wood to ripen and also to keep down any growth of weeds 
which but for the buckwheat would grow. When the 
buckwheat is taken off we find the ground mellow, quite 
clean and in good condition for next spring’s cultivation. 
New Haven County, Conn. j. n. b. 
IMPLEMENT NOTES. 
Luburg Goods.— The Luburg Manufacturing Company 
of Philadelphia, seem to be prospering in business, as 
they have just completed a fine new building into which 
they are now moving. It is always a pleasure to see our 
friends able to take a little extra comfort out of life. The 
Luburgs have been making other people comfortable 
through the sale of their chairs, beds, desks, bicycles and 
baby carriages. It is good to know that comfort and prof¬ 
it go together. 
National Land Roller. —Minard Harder, of Cobles- 
kill, N. Y., makes this implement, and claims that it is 
out of the range of possibility to better this roller for the 
same amount of m oney. It requires four pages of his cir¬ 
cular to describe this roller and to state the advantages of 
rolling seed, and not a word too much is said. 
Dutton Mower-Knife Grinder.— This implement is 
made by theHigganum Manufacturing Corporation, Water 
Street, New York. The painful turning of an old-fash¬ 
ioned grindstone pictured in their advertisement comes too 
near the truth on some farms to be pleasant. The 
“Grinder ” does the work required of it quickly and well. 
It has recently been improved, and changed somewhat so 
that it runs more easily. 
