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P. B. Messick, Middletown, Del., 
writes, “We used your L-16 3-knife 
Papec with aPordson tractor in 1919 and did j 
excellent work, but it seems there is no limit to [> 
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140 tons of silag-eaway in 14 hoars and then did notkeop her full.” 
The powerful Papec is guaranteed to cut and elevate more silage, 
L with the same power, than any other blower cutter. 
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know. If yon own n oilo or intend to buy one this year, 
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Papec Machine Co., 110 Main St., ShorUxilU, N.Y* 
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We give you fnoluiy price this 
silo. ContinnoiiM open dnur front, 
permanent Bteel Imlclor and otluu 
Ci rl111 n. features. 
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Other sizes in proportion. Wi de 
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U Hudson Falls. N. Y. 
FOR EVERY 
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It will give you long years 
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Dopt. L. C. WHEELING. W. VA. 
When you write advertisers mention The R. N.-Y. and you'll get a 
quick reply and a “square deal.” See guarantee editorial page. 
i he Trotter as a Farm Horse 
I was much interested in .T. C. Kline’s 
article regarding a trotter on the farm. 
I had a good deal the Maine experience 
when I started on tn.v place of 10 acres. 
I lmd a well-bred trotting gelding that 
weighed about 1,100 Ibs:, and bail a rec¬ 
ord of 2:24 V,. I was very doubtful 
about him at. first, but. when lie found 
out what was required of him. lie would 
outpull and out-game any horse around 
here, and was a fine roadster with it all. 
The poor old fellow got spavined so 
badly be could not get up, so I had to 
shoot him. Since that I had a big gray 
that weighed 1,400 Ibs.. and if he could 
not pull anything the first try, he would 
quit, and it took lots of persuasion to 
make him try again. He was the poorest 
roadster I ever sat behind. 1 have now 
a good hay gelding, weighing about 1.250 
lbs., that is a good all-around horse, hut 
frets und fusses when put to a heavy 
load, so that he tires himself all out be¬ 
fore half way home, and then we have 
to stop and rest, something l never had 
to do with the trotter. This horse is of 
tlio Clydesdale typo. f. ii, f. 
It. N.-Y.—We think a little dash of 
warm trotting blond in a heavy farm 
horse a good asset. Il gives the horse 
nerve and courage, and extra intelligence, 
all good qualities in a working horse. 
SILO tor *t4521!> 
No Trotters Wanted Here 
I read of a trotting horse doing farm 
work. This man speaks of working his 
horse single only. If he put him to a 
big plow with another just. like him, and 
turned over 1 % or two acres per dav, 
and kept it up. h.o would think differentiv 
without any doubt. I have never found 
more than two or three out of 20 that 
give satisfaction. The farmer of tx.dav 
wants good, big, heavy horses: 1,200 or 
even 1,100 lbs. are the kind to put to a 
maoure spreader. You can just imagine 
what a pair like the trotter would do to 
a hinder. No trotters for my farm. Don't 
think I am criticising this man or his 
IiorHo, but ho spouks r»f farmors ^ivin# 
attention to tin's class of horses. I knew 
of a man who owned a big farm and tried 
for a number of years t.o raise snob colts 
and horses. I have seen as many as 15 
hab\ col to in his pasture in oiiu season. 
Artoi trying for a number of y(*ars with 
out 8 U 0008 S. ho bought a Porcheron stai- 
lion, and lie told me if he had done that 
at rite start lie would have been a good 
many hundred dollars richer. lie said he 
actually lost money on the trotters 
New lork. „ . 
IJCMTO to sob PECK’S SOFT METAL RIVETS for 
Uun I O mending pots and pans, Kvtvry house- 
I wife a proNpnet 10l>‘*> profit. Trial box luc. regn- 
1 lar size, 25c E. E. PECK CO., Dept. 01, Medina, N. V. 
Ferrets for Rats 
We have read a great deal about using 
ferrets to get rid of rats, and there is no 
J doubt that a few good ferrets will chase 
a lot of rats out of a building. I believe 
thr usual way is for a man who makes 
a business of such a thing to keep a few 
ferrets and some good lively dogs. The 
ferrets chase the rats out. anil the dogs 
kill them. It is said to be a verv livelv 
sport at times. 
My only attempt at killing rats with 
ferrets was about 25 years ago. We had 
a fairly new barn which was supposed 
I to be practically rat-proof. The bottoms 
of the box stalls and of the storerooms 
in the basement, were all cement, with 
heavy wire netting over the drain holes. 
Upstairs there was no place where the 
rats could hide, except behind things that 
might be on the Hour. There were no 
open spaces in the walls. For several 
years there were no rats in the barn, ex¬ 
cept those that happened to get in during 
the Summer. These were usually killed 
within a short time, and we thought we 
really had a rat-proof building. 
One year we failed to watch the build¬ 
ing closely enough, and some rats dug a 
holp in the dirt floor of the carriage- 
house part of the basement, and got into 
the loose, stone park, of the foundation wall. 
They made two or three holes up outside 
of the building, ami seemed to be well 
fixed to enter at all times, and to live in 
that barn. We begun to find places where 
they had tried to gnaw into the store¬ 
rooms, and to get into the meal but. At 
j last wo decided to try to get them out 
i with ferrets. I bad a very good white 
ferret, and one of the neighbors had a 
very small brown one. We blocked up 
all the outside holes had started the fer¬ 
rets iu the one inside the barn, We ex¬ 
pected to see a great lot of rats coming 
out. and had several clubs and two or 
three dogs ready to receive them. In a 
few seeotids we heard a great commotion 
and saw a rat start out. That rat went 
back as soon as it saw us, ami then we 
heard some squalling and scrambling at 
intervals for an hour or two. Finally 
the ferrets came out together, both about 
the same Color with mud, rat hair and 
blood. No rats came out of the hole and 
none of the outside holes had been opened. 
We plugged up the inside hole, and had 
no more rats in that building for some 
years. Alfred c. weep. 
Illinois. 
R. N.-Y.—Most of our reports state 
that the ferret will rarely attack and 
kill a rat. Apparently the rats will not 
fight the ferret until they are cornered. 
It has been stated that ferrets possess 
some hypnotic power to frighten the ruts. 
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