1904. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
717 
Telephone Lines and Lightning. 
/•’. IT. P., Preston, A. V.—Does a telephone 
in the house add to the risk from lightning? 
Does a telephone line running through a pas¬ 
ture endanger the stock to any appreciable 
extent? 
Ans. —There is little reason to think 
that a telephone line materially affects the 
liability to stroke from lightning when 
connected with a house. Fire insurance 
companies make no difference in the risks. 
So, too, where the line passes through a 
pasture or field its effect is but little dif¬ 
ferent from that of a wire fence. 
T. H. K. 
Fall Sowing of Cabbage and Sweet Peas. 
A. IP. II., Westfield, Mass. —1. Can you tell 
me at what time early cabbage should be 
planted this Fall, in order to winter over 
the plants and have them to set out early 
next Spring? Also, how should they be pro¬ 
tected during t~Ite Winter? 2. How would it he 
best to plant sweet peas this Fall, in trenches 
(as I do in the Spring) or on' the level? 
Should they he covered with leaves or any¬ 
thing, if planted in trenches? 
Ans. —1. Cabbage seed may be sown any 
lime after September 15, possibly Septem¬ 
ber 25 in your locality. The plants should 
be pricked out in well-drained cold frames 
as soon as they can be handled and pro¬ 
tected with sash during the Winter. Most 
gardeners have abandoned the above 
method, preferring to sow seed early in the 
greenhouse or hotbed. The results are 
just as satisfactory. 2. I cannot see any 
advantage of sowing sweet peas in the 
Fall. If extra early flowers are wanted 
an application of nitrate of soda will hurry 
them along. Planting in trenches is the 
best method. john jeannin, jr. 
Size of Pump and Pipe. 
T. F. K., Carmel, N. Y .—I have been pump¬ 
ing water from a brook into my barn for 12 
years past with a No. 2 Douglass pump, pipe 
l '4 inch ; brook 50 feet from barn. I want 
a No. 5 or No. 6 Douglass pump to pump the 
water faster. Can I do it with the same size 
of pipe, or must I have a two-inch pipe? Can 
you pump faster with a three-inch pipe than 
a two-inch with the same size of pump? 
Ans. —Where the effective area of the 
piston is exactly equal to that of the cross 
section of the suction and discharge pipe 
of a pump the water travels with the 
same velocity as that of the piston. If 
the effective area of the piston is twice 
that of the discharge pipe the water wili 
be required to travel with double the ve¬ 
locity of the piston. But to increase the 
velocity of flow of water through a pipe 
there must be developed an increase of 
pressure, and to increase the pressure it 
is clear that more power would be re¬ 
quired to move the piston. If, therei 
fore, your correspondent wishes to in¬ 
crease the size o.f the piston of his pump 
and leave the discharge pipe the same, a 
greater increase of power would be re- 
■quired to work the pump than is repre 
sented by the extra water pumped. It 
has been experimentally demonstrated that 
when a three-inch cylinder is so arranged 
that it can, at will, be made to discharge 
in succession through a three, two, one or 
three quarter inch discharge pipe, lifting 
the water 18 feet high and making uni¬ 
formly the ordinary number of strokes 
per minute, the pressure required to be 
applied to the piston increased as the size 
of the discharge pipe decreased. With the 
three-inch discharge pipe the pressure on 
the piston was nine pounds per square 
inch with the two-inch it was 11 pounds 
per square inch, with the one-inch it was 
l.'l to 14 pounds, and with the three quart¬ 
er-inch discharge the pressure increased to 
18 or 19 pounds per square inch. It is 
thus seen that in the last case the pressure 
applied to the piston is double that of the 
tirst case, and yet the same amount of 
water was pumped in both cases. The 
power is lost in producing useless extra 
velocity in the small discharge pipe. 
F. H. KING. 
Fig. 314, page-714, is the ground plan of a 
cement barn bottom 1 have used since Jan¬ 
uary, 1904. A A are the alleys: B B, man¬ 
gers; C C, swing stanchions; 1) I), stands; 
F E, gutters, and F, driveway. There is room 
for 40 head of cattle, and I am very much 
pleased with it so far, especially the mangers 
without partitions or fronts, and taking the 
manure right from the stable to the held. 
This saves once handling, preserves the best 
part that usually gets away from a pile in 
the yard and is lost. f. d. r. 
Corfu, N. Y. 
When to Plant Asparagus.— After 
having planted my first asparagus perhaps 
16 years ago I concluded it was too thick, 
and allowed a neighbor to take up alter 
nate plants for his own use. This was 
done during mild open weather in Decem¬ 
ber, but not a plant grew; probably winter- 
killed. When I set the second patch about 
the usual depth of five or six inches I cov¬ 
ered the trenches level and harrowed the 
ground, thinking to keep it free from 
weeds. Here I got an imperfect stand, as 
many of the weaker plants never worked 
their way through. These two experiences 
would indicate the chief objections to Fall 
planting of asparagus in this climate. To 
make it safe against the Winter it should 
be planted as soon in the Fall as plants 
are ready to handle, and well covered; 
then take the risk of its coming through in 
the Spring. I have secured best results 
by planting early in the Spring. Work 
ground the desired depth, being careful 
that it is uniformly deep; set plants, 
cover with about two inches of earth. 'Phis 
is enough to protect against the cold, and 
will favor an early growth more than a 
deeper covering. Then as soon as plants 
appear above the ground carefully culti¬ 
vate or hoe down the sides of trench, fill¬ 
ing in as fast as plants grow until the 
ground is level. This method of culture 
is good, but could not be practiced in Fall 
planting. l. w. r. 
Benton Harbor, Mich. 
“Everbearing” Raspberries.- There are a 
number of red and black varieties that bear 
cjuite freely in the Fall on the new canes of 
the current year's growth, and for a family 
supply, where one has plenty of land, are 
quite a valuable acquisition, but I doubt if 
there would be any profit in them for commer¬ 
cial purposes. At one time I had an acre of 
the Earhart blackcaps, and during the last 
two weeks in September we were able to pick 
perhaps a bushel a day, which sold readily 
in the Hartford market at 25 cents a quart, 
but no considerable quantity of them would 
have been taken, nor was the yield heavy 
enough to make it very profitable at that 
price. 1 have never yet seen an everbearing 
raspberry that I should consider worthy of 
planting, except as a novelty in the family 
garden. j. n. hale. 
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Dear Sir: Jan. 11th, 1904. 
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