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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
November 22 
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Arrangement of Henhouse. 
IF. 77. TF. ( Nova Scotia.— I want to arrange 
the inside of a new henhouse. I have to 
accommodate 30 hens; the building is a 
basement 32 x 12 feet, stone wall on one 
side, four windows, one door. I want a 
scratching room, place for laying and 
roosts. Earth floor is damp; building is 
sheathed with paper and shingled, win¬ 
dows large enough for plenty of light. 
Would I better have the room for litter 
in the south, end, and a walk on east side? 
Could I have a room for sitters? I have 
384 square feet of floor space to work on. 
Ans. —Arranging W. H. W.’s poultry 
house is a hard problem, because of its 
location and exposure. A basement 
house has never proved satisfactory to 
us, and a south-east exposure is better 
than south-west. But if W. H. W. can¬ 
not change these he can make a very 
good double house large enough for 60 
hens by adding a shed to the north-west 
as illustrated in Fig. 321. Let him take 
10 feet of the south end of the building 
for a scratching shed by moving the end 
back for a partition and having a mus¬ 
lin curtain on a frame close to the shed 
in cold and stormy weather. Then di- 
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vide the remaining 22 feet, making two 
roosting and laying rooms, and building 
the shed to the west of the second house 
for their scratching shed. This shed 
should not cut off the window, or it will 
make the roosting room too dark. The 
entrance should be through the sheds, 
and that north door should be closed, as 
it lets in too much cold. The floor 
should be paved with brick or cobble¬ 
stones and cemented to keep out the 
dampness, and all should be well cover¬ 
ed with litter. The roosts could be hung 
from the rafters, and should be hooded 
in Winter with old carpet or bags to 
keep them snug and warm. He will 
probably have to line the roof, as a 
shingle roof is not a warm one, and 
should certainly be lined over the 
roosts. The doors and partitions could 
be made of muslin and would be better 
and cheaper than boards. 
Westchester Co., N. Y. white & rioe. 
The Triumph Peach in Maine. 
A. 11. B., Dexter, Me.— How does the Tri¬ 
umph peach compare with other peaches 
as a fruit for market? Do you think this 
peach can be grown here in Maine to 
amount to anything? Would it grow in 
soil rich enough for plums? Can peaches 
be grafted on to plum trees? 
Ans. —The Triumph peach has much 
to recommend it for market purposes. 
It is very early, handsome and of good 
size and quality. It is generally con¬ 
ceded to be productive, hardy and free 
from rot, and is well worth trying in 
Maine. As a general rule over-rich land 
is not the best for peaches. Better plant 
on soil of moderate fertility and apply 
manures or chemicals in early Spring, 
so as to allow thorough ripening before 
hard freezing. Peaches are grafted with 
difficulty either on their own wood or 
on plum. They may be successfully 
budded in Japan plum stocks, but are 
considerably dwarfed by the process. Ex¬ 
perience has shown they succeed best on 
strong-growing peach seedlings. 
Forest *Soil and Sheep for Orchard. 
G. TV., Iiremrd, N. C.—l And it convenient 
to haul in and place around my apple trees 
the top soil from the woods. What is the 
comparative value of this top soil? It cost 
me from six to 10 cents per sled load for 
a good ox or two light oxen. I am also 
letting sheep run in orchard during Winter. 
Can you give me any information on this 
point? 
Ans. —If the soil where the trees are 
has been largely exhausted of its humus 
by long cultivation and there is plenty 
of fresh wood mold not far distant it will 
probably pay very well to haul it in and 
put it about the trees, especially if they 
are young and need something to start 
them to growing vigorously. I fear that 
sheep penned in any orchard will in¬ 
jure it, unless they are fed so well that 
they are never hungry. Even then they 
will nip off all the twigs within their 
reach. Browse is the natural food of 
sheep and they take to it like ducks do 
to water. They may bark the trees, too. 
H. E. V. D. 
The Strawberry Leaf-Roller. 
L. O. V., Bethel, Ky.—I would like to hear 
from some of the strawberry growers in 
regard to the leaf-roller. I ha”e a half- 
acre of strawberries, and they have been 
infested with a little green worm on the 
leaves. The worms form a web and the 
leaf rolls over them; the leaf dies and 
some of the plants die outright; some of 
them put out new leaves again. I have 
given thorough cultivation. Will they af¬ 
fect the bearing next year? 
Ans. —Any serious injury to the foliage 
this year must affect the fruit crop ma¬ 
terially next year. If the caterpillars 
appear on the plants before the fruit is 
more than half grown, I would spray 
thoroughly with Paris-green (one pound 
in 150 gallons, with two pounds of fresh¬ 
ly-slaked lime added). This will kill 
many of the smaller caterpillars. Then 
wait until the fruit is harvested, and 
spray thoroughly with the same mixture 
two or three times before Fall. In Oc¬ 
tober, if the bed is an old one, plow it 
under deeply, thus burying the hiber¬ 
nating stage of the insect. Or mow the 
beds soon after the fruit is off, rake off 
the foliage and burn it, thus killing 
many caterpillars, eggs, and pupae, and 
preventing the development of a later 
brood to winter over and infest the bed 
next year. m. v. slingerland. 
How Grape Juice Is Kept. 
TV. 77. 77.„ Tyngsboro, Mass.— Can you tell 
how the Welch grape juice is made? 
Ans. —I fancy every one understands 
why fruit is heated to 180 degrees. 
Some people would say the object is 
sterilization. We common people would 
say to kill the germs. When the germs 
are killed, the top of the can is put on 
and made tight, so no live germs can 
get in. Probably 150 to 160 degrees of 
heat would do the business, but one can 
never be sure how evenly the tempera¬ 
ture is spread through a mass. The 
preservation of grape juice is eventually 
the same as that of fruit. No more and 
no less. Carefully strain the juice be¬ 
fore heating or sealing. Do not heat 
above 180 degrees, for if such is done the 
flavor is impaired. The Welch people, 
to whom I sold the product of my vine¬ 
yard this Fall, first can the juice, as I 
may say, in carboys holding five gallons, 
and there it remains until just before 
shipping, when it is recanned into 
smaller packages to suit the convenience 
of the consumer. Standing the carboy 
allows a small amount of albumen and 
what would make tartaric acid to settle, 
and what is given to the consumer is 
clearer and more attractive to the eye. 
Cornell University. J. w. spencer. 
Size of Mulched Trees. 
Several Readers.— How large are those 
young trees in. Mr. Hitchings’s orchard? 
Ans. —The following records were those 
made by an expert observer in the or¬ 
chard. This will give an idea of the 
way the trees have grown; Greening, 
seven years old, circumference 10 
inches above ground, 14 inches; yield 
in 1901, five bushels; in 1902, two bush¬ 
els. Spy, seven years old, same circum¬ 
ference; yield in 1901, one bushel; in 
1902, four bushels. Wealthy, six years 
old, circumference at same height, liy 2 
inches; yield in 1901, four bushels; in 
1902, six bushels. Hubbardston, six 
years old, circumference 10 inches above 
ground, 13V 2 inches; yield in 1901, one 
bushel; in 1902, two bushels. Jonathan, 
age six years, circumference, 12V 2 
inches; yield in 1900, one bushel; 1901, 
four bushels; 1902, three bushels. 
Cheap Stove for Small Conservatory. 
N. J., Cuba, Mo. —I want a cheap or in¬ 
expensive heating stove of some kind to 
heat a conservatory of house plants, size 
10 x 20, and 10 feet high. The house is a 
lean-to with glass on south side and on 
roof. Have used all kinds of oil stoves, 
and they are not satisfactory for many 
reasons. 
Ans. —I have found that a small sheet- 
iron wood stove, using six-inch pipe, 
either up through the roof or end, will 
do good work, and it gets 15 to 18 de¬ 
grees below zero here. I have dug out a 
pit in one corner, set in a larger size 
sheet-iron wood stove, run the pipe un¬ 
der bench and out, using six-inch pipe 
with an elbow; if there is a bank I have 
built a stone furnace and made the flue 
of chimney lining, run under the bench 
and out to chimney. N. J. could use a 
piece of good-sized smoke stack (iron), 
lay a few bricks the size wanted, lay 
bars or grate, cut a piece off bottom of 
stack to fit on the brick bed, have door 
in end, stack as long as wanted, two- 
thirds length of room. Fit a sheet-iron 
piece on the other end. Cut a hole to 
take a six-inch stovepipe, and run pipe 
as needed. If said conservatory is at¬ 
tached to dwelling house with a cellar 
under it, the best is a small base-burner 
water heater. You can run the pipe into 
the room above warming that; through 
that into conservatory, and back to 
heater. A base-burner coal stove with 
necessary piping is good if tight. Any 
leakage of gas will knock out plants. 
Connecticut. A. W. s. 
The coffee habit is quickly over¬ 
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take its place. If properly made 
it tastes like the best of coffee. No 
grain coffee compares with it in 
flavor or healthfulness. 
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