2ft? RURAL NEW-YORKER 
673 
Living Bean Poles a Failure 
I was informed through an agricultural 
paper that by sowing sunflower seed for 
the butter or Lima beans to grow on 
would have no need to set poles, but the 
stalks would also supply a lot of wood 
or kindling when season was over and 
also a quantity of seed for the poultry. 
My garden is a little better than 200 ft. 
long, and to save baud work everything 
is planted in rows, east to west. I cut 
off the leaves from stalks as the vines 
grew till 5 or 0 ft. in height; the sun¬ 
flowers looked grand, towering from 8 to 
14 ft. high. 3 in. through at base, with 
monstrous seed heads. They grew so 
rank that they sapped the ground till the 
beans did not make over one-fourth the 
crop they should have made. Early in 
the season three sunflowers died, aud I 
got out my sharp-pointed crowbar, worked 
holes and jammed down bean poles. The 
crop on them was something like it should 
be. The sparrows got most of the sun¬ 
flower seeds, in spite of my efforts to 
the contrary. The stalks made poor kind¬ 
lings, but that was not all. On the north 
of row was a row of Irish Ctibbler po¬ 
tatoes, which were almost a fizzle, and a 
row of tomatoes on south of row did 
poorly, about half u crop. The Rose 
potatoes, a little further off, made a fair 
crop, albeit it. was not a good potato year. 
A neighbor was just over to borrow my 
baud sprayer to soak henhouse with 
lime-sulphur; wife all discouraged; 10 
settiugs of eggs ruined because lice tor¬ 
ment the liens. For a good many years I 
have sifted coal ashes and once a week 
taken a shingle and flipped the sifted 
ashes all about the henhouse, throwing it 
up in the air. so as it settles. Every 
crack nod crevice gets treated. I never 
hear “lice” from my women folk, except 
when young chicks come, and then they 
find a few once or twice. Put a little 
lard on their heads and under wings. Be 
sure there is no tire in ashes when used. 
Illinois. w. ir. hart. 
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Seasoning Poplar Lumber 
I am having some poplar trees sawed 
for lumber. Should I have the logs sawed 
green and lot the wood season in the 
boanl. or should 1 lot the log season for 
host results? E. s. 
1’ottstowu, Pa. 
This wood is rather difficult to season 
properly and at the same time prevent 
its warping and cheeking. If the lumber 
is properly cared for it. can ho seasoned 
to best advantage after sawing. The 
hoards should he carefully piled on a solid 
foundation, each layer of hoards being 
separated from the one above it by strips 
placed crosswise of the pile, directly over 
the sleepers supporting the pile. Separ¬ 
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mits a circulation of air through the pile, 
which greatly helps in drying it. while 
• lie strips placed crosswise of the pile 
over the sleepers and directly above each 
other, aside from separating the layers, 
hold the hoards in shano so that they dry 
with little or no warping. The pile should 
slope somewhat from front to rear, lie 
placed with the side toward (he direction 
from which the prevailing winds come, 
and should not he too wide, a narrow pile 
drying out quicker. Boards leaned up 
against the south end of the pile form a 
shade, and will lessen the checking at the 
ends. 
If carefully piled, good, straight lum¬ 
ber will result. If to he stored for a con¬ 
siderable length of time, the piles should 
he taken down and rebuilt to prevent 
coloring and possible rotting where the 
strips used for separating the layers cross 
the boa r ds. The idea is to have tile hoard 
dry uniformly while held in such a way 
that if cannot readily warp. If the at¬ 
tempt is made to season the lumber in the 
log. excessive checking will result, due t i 
the fact that drying and consequent 
shrinking is so much more rapid on the 
outside of the log than it is on the inside, 
where the air does not reach it. r. u. s. 
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II..w nmuy feet would it man have to be 
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a curvature in the 40 miles. How many 
inches do surveyors allow to the mile in 
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Geneva. N. Y. 
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