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RURAL NEW-YORKER 
April 22, 1922 
what 2 cents will do 
Hall’s Nicotine Sulphate when diluted 
with water according to directions makes 
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Being a vegetable poison it will not 
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Ten-pound tins, $13.50; two-pound 
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Here’s a Mixer 
You Can Use Every Day of the Year 
H ERE’S an all-purpose mixer that will never lie idle on your farm. 
You can use it every day of the year— for every mixing job. 
Its patented tilting drum makes it a perfect machine for mixing feeds —dairy cow 
rations as well as slop for hogs —for mixing fertilizer and for washing farm 
products, such as wool, beets, horseradish, etc. The Jaeger drum tilts clear 
down and completely discharges any material. 
General Farm Topics 
The Jaeger FARM Concrete MIXER saves 
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Barn Plan and Garden Questions 
1. I am going to build n barn. We have 
a great many arguments as to bow the 
interior is to be arranged. We want a 
cellar stable, with the warmth it pro¬ 
vides in Winter; concrete walls, and have 
it face southeast, which make the barn¬ 
yard warm and sheltered in Winter. It 
is suggested to put the animals, six or 
eight cows and a team of mules, along the 
front length of the wall. This arrange¬ 
ment, I argue, is very wasteful as to space 
and steps. What do you think? We 
cannot afford a litter carrier. Which is 
the best way to arrange the animals so 
as to have one manure pile, and save as 
many steps and motions as possible in 
feeding and cleaning the stables? I get 
laughed at and accused of laziness when 
I talk of saviug steps or strength. 2. 
Does alnmonia smell injure (he chickens 
in the coop? 3. When should manure he 
put on a two-year-old asparagus bed, and 
what kind; chicken manure or ashes, or 
mule or cow manure? 4. Why can’t we 
grow peas successfully? My husband 
plowed up the garden, manured it and 
sowed rye on it in hopes that the weeds 
won’t he so thick. Hard work for a 
woman with three or four small children 
to keep the weeds out of that garden, 
baking, churning, washing, and every¬ 
thing else to do. A. R. C. 
Milford, Pa. 
1. Tn order to plan a stable arrange¬ 
ment one should know more about the 
premises than you tell. Is the basement 
to be built into a bank, and where may, 
or must, the entrance doors ho placed? 
Where is the kitchen door of the house, 
in relation to the proposed entrances to 
the barn? Are feeding chutes from the 
barn floor above desired, and where can a 
stairway to the basement be conveniently 
located? Yon are quite right in thinking 
that too much care cannot be taken to 
plan a convenient, step and labor saving 
arrangement of barn and stable. Work 
that you can do now with your head, be¬ 
fore the barn is built, can save uncount¬ 
ed hours of useless labor later. It is very 
difficult, to rearrange a house or barn 
after it is built and one sees how much 
|better he might Lave planned. Lack of 
[forethought has killed many a man and 
woman, not always quickly and kindly, 
but sometimes by causing them to be 
worn out slowly and painfully by stops 
that might have been saved, and chores 
that might have been lightened. IIow 
many barns do we see, and houses, too, 
that it seems must have been planned by 
the evil one for the torment of tired men 
and overworked housewives. There is no 
more important work to be done upon 
that new barn than that, you and your 
husband should do before a stick of tim¬ 
ber is placed. You can’t hire architects 
or efficiency engineers to plan for you, 
and you don’t need to. You know vs hat 
must be done day after day and year 
after year, and done by your own tired 
hands and feet, and now is the time to 
mnke your head save your heels. A man¬ 
ufacturer would pay a large sum to any 
efficiency expert who could show him how 
to cut out an unnecessary Step in his 
process of manufacture; you should 
award that sum to yourselves and collect 
it in conserved strength each day for 
years to come. 
Your basement will probably be 28 by 
40 ft. in the clear inside. Fig. 250, page 
570, shows an arrangement of stables for 
eight cows and a team that utilizes spate 
economically and makes feeding and sta¬ 
ble cleaning convenient. There may be 
considerations that make the arrangement 
1 suggest inadvisable or impracticable, 
but, without knowing more about your 
premises, this is the best T can do in the 
way of suggestion. The stalls for the team 
might be swung around to face the end 
wall of the basement, and hay he put 
down a chute from above, but the feeding 
of a team Is much more pleasant if one 
doesn’t have to go into the stalls, particu¬ 
larly if the work sometimes has to be 
done by women or children. Here, the 
feeding is all done from the main door in 
front of the animals, and stable cleaning 
is conveniently arranged for shovel or 
manure carrier. The manure from the 
stalls should be used as an absorbent in 
the gutter behind the cows, and all may 
he thrown from two or more openings in 
the basement wall. Some day, however, 
you will have a manure carrier. Use 
single-sash windows, arranged with “hop¬ 
per sides” for ventilation, and enough of 
them to flood the stable with sunlight. 
Have doors sufficient in size and number 
to enable the animals to be quickly gotten 
out in case of fire, and build a couple of 
box stalls on the floor, perhaps in the 
corner ahead of the team. And, say! if 
you can only connect this barn with the 
kitchen woodshed by means of a covered 
storage slnfl, so that, you can go from 
house to bars in the Winter with dry 
feet and warm hands, won’t it be fine? 
I know that that is an old New England 
style, now gone out, but, oh, it was com¬ 
fortable ! 
The stable dimensions given may be 
changed somewhat if necessary. Cows 
should have from 3 to 4 ft. of space each 
upon their standing platform, which, in 
this case will probably be of concrete, and 
the platform should be from 4 to 5 ft. in 
depth from stanchion to gutter. Cows 
should stand with their hind feet, close to 
the edge of the gutter, and there is quite 
a difference between the length of a Jersey 
or a yearling and that of a full-grown 
Holstein. TTorse stalls should be about 
5 ft. wide and 0% ft. in length from man¬ 
ger to drop. Nine inches might be taken 
from the width of the walk behind the 
cows and still leave a 4-ft. walk, for the 
glitter really forms part of the walk. Al¬ 
leys should be wide enough so that ani¬ 
mals can go through them without crowd¬ 
ing. and the heels of horses, or mules, 
particularly, should not have to be crowd¬ 
ed in leading an animal past. them. 
2. With good ventilation, there should 
not be enough of the ammonia fumes in a 
poultry house to injure the fowls. It 
may he avoided by using sifted coal ashes, 
dry loam or land plaster as an absorbent 
upon tho droppiugs boards until they can 
he cleaned. Wood ashes would only re¬ 
lease more of the ammonia from the drop¬ 
pings. 
3. Asparagus beds are manured either 
in late Fall or early Spring, before growth 
starts. It would probably be better to 
use fresh manure in the Fall, that which 
has been rotted for the Spring applica¬ 
tion. Loth poultry and cattle manures 
may be used, and an application of ashes 
would supply some of the potash that the 
other manures are deficient in. Salt is 
also used by many gardeners, more for 
the purpose of keeping down weeds than 
as a plant food, however. Salt kills 
weeds, but does not injure the asparagus. 
Buds for the following year’s growth are 
made during midsummer and early Fall, 
so that a Summer application of manure 
would be for the benefit of the next year’s 
growth, 
4. Tf your peas run mainly to vines, 
with few pods, you are probably manur¬ 
ing the ground too heavil” Try wood 
ashes in place of the barnyard or poultry 
manures. The nitrogen in the latter pro¬ 
motes vine growth, and. if in excess, at 
the expense of seed production. Plant 
garden stuff in long rows, instead of beds, 
and have the rows far enough apart to 
permit of horse cultivation. A horse can 
destroy more weeds in a half hour than 
a woman can in a week, and horse labor 
is by far the cheapest. Get. a wheel gar¬ 
den hoe, also, and put a strong man be¬ 
hind it. The amount of work that a 
strong and willing husband can do with a 
wheel garden cultivator in a half -hour is 
unbelievable if one has never seen it dem¬ 
onstrated. Plants enn be worked close 
to, and a garden made to look like new 
in no time. The fact that a man has no 
time to put into garden work just at the 
season when garden work must, be done is 
the great argument for a garden cultiva¬ 
tor with its little plow, scuffle hoes and 
cultivator teeth. A man who has never 
used one will marvel at what he can do in 
20 minutes with it in a well-fitted gar¬ 
den plot, with stuff planted in rows, and 
20 minutes twice a day will almost care 
for a garden. It is more than some of 
them get. m. b. d. 
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