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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
Grinding Grain at Home. 
H. C., WESCOSVILLE, Pa.—T he com¬ 
munications in The R. N.-Y. of Decem¬ 
ber 1, on the subject of grinding feed at 
home, are well worth careful considera¬ 
tion. My experience in grinding on the 
farm extends over a period of less than 
two years, but as a novice I will say that 
the work is as well done as the custom 
mills usually do it for farmers in this 
locality. The saving by home grinding 
is certainly equal to the expense, if not 
greater. And the convenience of having 
the work done at home is an important 
item. We grind six bushels per hour for 
cattle feeding, and less according to fine¬ 
ness, for other purposes. Steam power 
is most efficient and speedy, but skillful 
painstaking mechanical knowledge in 
its use is desirable. A few visits of 
skilled workmen and machinists an¬ 
nually may consume all and more than 
the saving by home grinding. Wind 
power is attended with less expense and 
risk, for those who can abide the delays. 
Twenty years’ experience with horse¬ 
power taught me to prefer steam. The 
mill we use is a No. 12 French burr. It 
has a corn and cob crusher attached. 
Both run at the same time if desired ; a 
great convenience for grinding mixed 
rations. Into a bin erected over the 
mill, we put equal parts of wheat, rye 
and buckwheat; and to one bushel of 
this mixture two bushels of ear corn are 
put into the crusher. This is taken, as 
broken, by a carrier to the mill hopper, 
where it unites with the mixed grain 
coming from the bin overhead. This 
product is our ration for fattening steers 
for market. For the work teams, we 
omit the buckwheat. For hogs we mix 
wheat and corn. For little pigs two 
parts of wheat to one of rye, ground 
very fine, are fed in the form of slop. 
These rations are adapted to the present 
farm product, rather than to an attempt 
at scientific feeding. My investment is 
$1,000 total, for power, mill, shafting, 
gearing, belting and building erected to 
contain them, not including other farm 
machinei*y. 
• Crimson Clover Is Coming. 
J. C. S., Ore Banks, Va. —I have every 
reason to believe that facts will more 
than bear out Mr. Bancroft’s claims for 
Crimson clover, page 777, and I am will¬ 
ing to stake my reputation as a prophet 
by saying that the day is near at hand 
when the acreage of Crimson clover will 
far exceed that of the ordinary Red. 
Some new experimenters, who now are 
casting gloomy looks at the Crimson 
clover patch, may yet clap their hands 
before the end of next April. Last year, 
one of my lots, sown late, chicken-pecked, 
and then frostbitten, looked perfectly 
bare by Christmas, as I glanced with 
searching eyes over the fence. Only a 
magnifying glass might have convinced 
me that there was a single plant left. 
When spring came, the light flashed upon 
me that I would have a thick stand, and 
when it was cut in May, it was 14 to 22 
inches tall. 
It has gone through the severest of 
our winters here unscathed, and that is 
saying a great deal ; for while the differ¬ 
ence in temperature between this and the 
lakes is not so very great, the difference 
in snow is immense. Reared in sight of 
Lake Erie, I know something about that. 
In the North, cold is more lasting, while 
our winters here alternate between freez¬ 
ing and growing weather, the severest 
strain to which vegetation can be sub¬ 
jected. Some weeks ago, the thermome¬ 
ter dropped to 13 degrees above zero, and 
while I am expecting it to drop on the 
other side of zero, the ground is now in 
fine working condition, and I am doing 
considerable in the line of gardening. 
Any plant that can stand such variations 
of temperature, ought to flourish in the 
more equable temperature farther north. 
Crimson clover is now making a fashion¬ 
able call; next it will pay a more ex¬ 
tended visit, and finally it will become a 
regular member of the family of farm 
crops. With beauty and utility com¬ 
bined, it is bound to force its way in spite 
of any preexisting prejudice, and though 
there will be occasipnal failures, they 
will be rare compared with those of its 
cousin, Red clover. I do not claim it to 
be of universal adaptation, but its lati¬ 
tude will before long outstrip the expec¬ 
tations of its most sanguine friends. 
Cheap Way to Grow Novelties. 
C. M. M., Gravelton, Mo.—I am try¬ 
ing to get enough fruit trees and plants 
set to produce enough fruit to furnish 
my family the year ’round with the best 
of each sort. I do much of my own 
propagating, and in this way my trees 
and plants cost me very little. My neigh¬ 
bors often buy fine, high-priced new 
fruits, and by reading The It. N.-Y., 
other horticultural papers, and the nur¬ 
serymen’s catalogues, I learn which are 
likely to be valuable. I can nearly al¬ 
ways get cuttings and buds of such as I 
wish, and by careful nursing and culti¬ 
vating, I am often but little behind and 
sometimes ahead, in fruiting novelties. I 
noticed an advertisement in The R. N.-Y. 
last winter, of some one who offered to 
send Burbank and Satsuma plum wood 
to any one by mail, postpaid, at about 10 
cents a foot. I sent 12 cents, and got 
three pieces of Burbank wood about seven 
or eight inches long. I kept the wood 
dormant until peach stocks were ready 
to bud this spring, and budded several. 
Now I have, I think, as fine plum trees 
as I ever saw, good, heavy-limbed trees 
four and five feet high, 10 or 12 or more, 
and all they cost outside the trouble I 
had with them, which to me was a pleas¬ 
ure, did not exceed 15 cents. 
Chickens and Crimson Clover. 
G. B., Covington, Va.—J uly 4 last, 1 
sowed a small patch with Crimson clover. 
When it came up, the chickens went for 
it, and kept it grazed close to the ground 
all summer, though plenty of White and 
Red clover was growing right beside it. 
1 sowed another very small piece of 
ground with the same kind of seed Octo¬ 
ber 1. To-day it is looking vigorous and 
very promising. We are in the moun¬ 
tains, 1,200 feet above the sea, but have 
had no bad weather yet (December 15.) 
Advice to Vegetable Growers. 
“Fritz,” Cazenovia, N. Y.—Among 
good vegetables to grow' for the Pitts¬ 
burgh market, I find Charlestown Early 
Wakefield cabbage, Purple-top White 
Globe turnip, Eclipse beet, for early or 
late, Giant Pascal celery, Danvers Half 
Long carrot. Short kinds of carrots can’t 
be sold on the Pittsburgh market. Get 
a list of retail dealers, and write to them 
for orders, and work up the home trade. 
Wash medium-sized vegetables, one of 
each kind for sale, wrap up in tissue paper, 
pack in a grip sack, go to the vegetable 
dealer in the nearest town, show the 
samples, take orders for not less than a 
barrel of each kind, ask him what he 
has been paying per barrel for such pro¬ 
duce, or sell at market price, orders to 
be filled early next morning. Beets, 
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your crop and the market. 
Pecans and Chestnuts in Cold Countries. 
N. II., Queens, N. Y.—T. E. B. asks 
whether pecans and chestnuts will bear 
fruit in Vermont. At my place, latitude 
of New York City, there are growing two 
pecan trees, each over two feet in diame¬ 
ter and 40 feet high. Every other year, 
they set plenty of fruit, but before it is 
nearly matured, they are all killed. 
There may be earlier varieties. The 
trees are hardy, but the season is too 
short. Chestnuts grow well, ripen fruit, 
and are perfectly hardy when the ther¬ 
mometer goes to 20 to 30 degrees below 
zero. I see no reason why they should 
not flourish in Vermont. 
Wisconsin Apple Notes. 
A. J. P., La Crosse County, Wis.— I 
notice a little advice on page 813 of The 
R. N.-Y. of December 22, on which I 
wish to comment. Any one publishing 
a paper that has so large a circulation as 
The R. N.-Y. hardly realizes the varia¬ 
tions of climate where the different 
readers live. Setting apple trees 40 to 
GO feet apart will do for Eastern favor¬ 
able locations ; but I find that in north¬ 
ern Wisconsin, running the rows north 
and south 25 feet apart, and then plant¬ 
ing the trees 10 to 12 feet apart in the 
row, is the surest way to raise apples. I 
set every alternate tree of some early 
bearing variety. I find that top grafting 
on a suitable stock, increases the hardi¬ 
ness and longevity of the trees of the so- 
called half hardy varieties. 
Strawberries and Clover. 
S. H. W., Weston, Mass.—O n page 79G 
of The R. N.-Y., the question is sub¬ 
mitted to the “ wise men” as to the 
advisability of planting strawberries and 
clover together. Although I have been 
in the strawberry business over 40 years, 
I do not claim that I am particularly 
wise in that line, but I doubt not that 
most of your readers would think that I 
must be a poor, dull scholar if I had not 
learned something about strawberry cul¬ 
ture in that length of time. The man 
that adopted this method of raising 
strawberries would be “ penny wise and 
pound foolish.” The clover sowed in 
August would, or ought to be, three or 
four feet high in June or July when the 
berries should be ready to pick. He 
speaks of rolling down the clover (I sup¬ 
pose before picking). It seems to me 
that he would be making his strawberry 
jam before he picked the berries, and it 
would be more than the berries are worth 
to find them in the thick clover. The ber¬ 
ries would be of very poor color in the 
shade, and very soft, even though they 
escaped the pressure of the roller. As for 
the clover drawing nitrogen for the bene¬ 
fit of the strawberries, I should say that 
it would prove to be more of a thief to 
the crop of berries than a benefactor. 
Have any of our friends as far North 
as New York found that any variety of 
oats will stand the winter? Mr. C. W. 
Taylor, Barboursville, Va., thinks that 
he has a variety that will do so, and to 
show his faith, he sent us a small quan¬ 
tity last September. These were sown 
September 15... 
We want information as to Bokhara 
clover—Melilotus alba. 
The two acres of Crimson clover sown 
at the Rural Grounds not until Septem¬ 
ber 11 are thus far wintering perfectly. 
Ruralisms has never before had so 
much occasion for feeling thankful as 
during the year just closed. TheR. N.-Y. 
has never been more successful. It is 
with a feeling of sincere appreciation of 
the kindly feeling shown through the 
letters of our friends, and their words of 
hearty encouragement that we wish 
them in all sincerity a most happy and 
successful New Year. 
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