1903 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
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experience with well drilling 
Will those who have had experience with 
drilling wells tell us how they operate when 
they strike quicksand? Also give an opin¬ 
ion about the point in drilling. 
In regard to quicksand, one has to 
keep his pipe driven ahead of his drill 
all the time. As regards driven wells 
where a point is used, there are but few 
places where they are practicable. In 
quicksand they will not work satisfac¬ 
torily. The point is bound to fill up so 
that water cannot be got through it. A 
drilled well is the most satisfactory. 
Westport, Conn. e. n.. sipperley. 
I drive a six-inch pipe protected with 
a shoe on the end through the sand into 
coarser sand or gravel that will not run 
up into the pipe. This is generally 
found in layers, after coarse gravel is 
found the water will clear up. Then 
you will have a good well that will not 
fill up afterwards. Points are a doubt¬ 
ful and bothersome experiment. 
Worcester, Mass. o. w. patterson. 
It is customary in this section to drive 
casing in the quicksand and pump the 
sand up with a slush bucket. If the 
sand cannot be easily handled with 
slush bucket the drillers sometimes 
throw sawdust and water into the hole 
and pump out the mixture, which car¬ 
ries considerable sand in it. In the mat¬ 
ter of driven wells when quicksand oc¬ 
curs it is customary simply to pump vig¬ 
orously so as to raise as much sand 
as possible and a reservoir will thus 
form around the point, and the sand 
will settle at the bottom, o. e. davib. 
Dubuque, Iowa. 
My experience with quicksand is this: 
With point you must drive ’way through 
the quicksand, as there is no way of 
keeping it out until you have struck 
gravel. Sometimes it is impossible to 
drive pipe deep enough, owing to the 
friction in going down so deep. A bet¬ 
ter way, and surer, is to take two-inch 
pipe, put a coupling on the end at bot¬ 
tom, and use a force pump and wash the 
wall down; then when you have struck 
water in sufficient quantity put down 
as coarse gravel as you can get down 
the pipe until you have washed in sev¬ 
eral bushels, not driving pipe any more. 
This will keep out sand. 
Oakdale, Mass. w. e. chapman. 
In quicksand we always use the best 
drive pipe in lengths of about seven feet 
coupled up with good drive-well coup¬ 
lings. Use a steel drive shoe on bottom 
of the first length. We always find it 
best to keep the pipe full of water if 
possible; the pressure of water on in¬ 
side nearly equals that on outside, and 
keeps the sand from running in as much 
as it would otherwise. Drill as far as 
possible below the pipe, then drive pipe 
down hard, then drill more. If there 
are bowlders it is best not to drive pipe 
down too hard; if so you are liable to 
get a crooked hole. We always find It 
best to keep machine running as stead¬ 
ily as possible. piekson bugs. 
Liberty, N. Y. 
As far as our experience goes there is 
no way of keeping quicksand out of s 
well while going through it. When we 
strike a bed or stratum of quicksand we 
drive pipe and just keep at it until we 
are through it. A well driller can tell 
when he has got through the quicksand 
and then can drill out the sand and go 
on in the usual way of drilling and tak¬ 
ing out the sand. We usually run the 
drill from three to five feet below the 
pipe. In regard to point wells, we can¬ 
not say very much in their favor, as 
they will fill up or the strainer will rust 
out or rust so hadly that water will not 
come freely, causing the pump to work 
hard. We have good success in putting 
down two-inch pipe wells in sand. We 
drive the pipe without point or strain¬ 
er. When we have found water we drill 
out the sand in the pipe, let down our 
all-brass Cook strainer, draw the pipe 
so strainer will stand just below bottom 
of pipe, fasten strainer tight, put In 
cylinder, connect pump with wood 
sucker rod, and have as good well as 
can be had at any price, c. l. wright. 
Hamden, Conn. 
WE WANT TO KNOW. 
The following questions are submitted to 
our readers for discussion. We would like 
to hear from anyone who has had experi¬ 
ence in these matters; 
The Best Stock Fence.— What kind of 
fence shall I put around my barn lot? I 
have 42-lnch woven wire with barb on lop, 
and had a fine colt jump against it and 
nearly ruin its right shoulder. What kind 
of fences do your readers use? a. c. l. 
Blooming Grove, Ind. 
Keeping Qualities of Apples.— We de¬ 
sire information on the texture and keep¬ 
ing qualities of apples as affected by culti¬ 
vation, comparing apples grown on culti¬ 
vated and sod orchards. We ask for your 
cooperation, and any information you can 
give us on the suuject, through The R. 
N.-Y. or by direct communication, will 
be highly appreciated. f. a. Salisbury. 
Ithaca, N. Y. 
A Fertilizer Rotation.— Can any of 
your readers tell me If T can farm success¬ 
fully by the following rotation: Grass-, corn, 
potatoes, oats and seed to grass again? 
Soil a clay loam and In fair condition, 
using no manure but a 4-8-7 fertilizer as 
follows: One-half ton per acre on potatoes, 
200 pounds per acre on oats, 400 pounds per 
acre on grass, 300 pounds per acre on corn, 
and top-dress grass at rate of 300 pounds 
per acre each Spring, sowing clover in 
corn to plow under for potatoes, followin.? 
Spring. Grass is seeded after oats by 
Clark system, as that does well with me. 
Can I keep my land fertile by the above 
method, and Is there any danger of ex¬ 
hausting it b.v use of fertilizer alone? The 
fertilizer men tell me no. AVhat do the 
farmers who have had any experience with 
it say? o. j. b. 
Albany, N. Y. 
Hogs as Gardeners.— T would like to ask 
one or two questions of some of The R. 
N.-Y. pi.g cranks. I wish to fence in about 
one-fourth of an acre near the buildings 
for a garden, using a portable fence and 
moving it every year. Then T want to keep 
a brood sow, have pigs come In May and 
then place the hog and enough of the pigs 
in the fenced-in plot so that during the 
Summer and Fall, up to November 15, they 
will distribute enough manure over the plot 
to produce a good crop of vegetables the 
following season. Of course they will be 
well fed, and If some commercial fertilizer 
was needed to balance up the hog manure 
r would use that. How many pigs shall T 
keep with the sow to fertilize the one- 
quarter acre? A few years ago the au¬ 
thorities told us to feed pigs a grain mix¬ 
ture of equal weights of bran and mid¬ 
dlings. I have raised good pigs on that 
feed, but made very little profit. Now they 
tell us that bran is too coarse to feed a 
pig. Are middlings alone a suitable grain 
ration for pigs, or what shall T feed (with 
very little or no milk)? Is gluten meal a 
suitable feed for pigs? If so, what shall 
I mix with it and in what proportion? 
When In doubt I am pretty apt to go to 
The R, N.-Y. for help. s. s. c. 
Hardwick, Vt. 
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THE 
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Carranta, Gooseberries, Blaek- 
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our factory for catalogue of the 
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Steel Wind Mills 
and four post angle steel towers. A 
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mills of the highest grade at extreme¬ 
ly low prices. We can save you 
money on a ^ood article. 
S. Freeman ®. Sons Co., 
102 Hamilton St., Racine, Wis. 
A complete line of Feed and Ensilage Cutters. 
Corn Shellcrs, Wood Saws, etc., at low prices. 
C orn Planting 
and fertilizing go hand in hand. v. 
You can plant in hills, drills or p 
— checks and put in the ground all com- 
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any condition,as wet,lumpy,etc. with 
Corn Planter and 
Fertilizer Distributer, 
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Adapted as well to Peas, Beans, Beets, etc. 
Hills 6 to 45 inches apart. Distributes 60 to 
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adjustment. Light draft, weight 150 lbs. 
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BELCHER & TAYLOR A. T. 
Box lo (Chicopee Falls, Mass. 
CO., 
O NE of your New Year resolutions 
should have been to make your 
home and grounds more attractive 
this year by planting 
Ornamental Trees, 
Shrubs and Vines 
about your place. We have a tine stock 
of large Sugar, Noi'way and Sycamore 
Maples and other Forest Trees. A few of 
our magnificent Hydrangeas, either hush 
or tree, would add 25 per cent to the ap¬ 
pearance and selling value of your place. 
Let ns send you catalogue of Ornamentals, 
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Send for Circular. 
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STEPHEN HOYT’S SONS, 
New Canaan, Conn. 
AT WHAT PRICE. 
Those of our readers who wish to know 
the cost of .strictly first-class, hardy, 
healthy fruit trees, should send to Call’s 
Nurseries, Peri'y, O., for price list. Call 
enjoys the well-earned reputation of 
sending his customers the finest fruit 
trees that are grown. He employs no 
agents, but deals direct with the fruit 
growers, and guarantees satisfaction. 
New price-list now ready. 
Fairfield Strawberry nl^Tw" ekearifo; 
than Michel’s Early, 60c. i)er dozen by mall. Circular 
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The new STRAW¬ 
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* 1 Aroma will prolong the season from 5 t 
Wakefield Cabbage and Lettuce Plants ready to plant an^tium • • - 
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