1904 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
445 
THE PRIZE CLIPPINGS, 
The following clippings are considered best 
this week: 
Nafural Gas at Work. 
At Mr. Tredway’s place there Is a powerful 
flow of natural gas which he has broken to 
harness, and by the aid of which he accom¬ 
plishes much that may be of interest to 
others In the natural gas region. On ap¬ 
proaching the farm, one notices a street 
lamp in front of the gate. Ilis house is 
piped throughout for both lighting and heat¬ 
ing. In the back yard, under the shade of 
some large trees, stands a stove, supplied 
with natural gas, on which the operations 
of cooking in the Summer and of doing the 
family washing may be performed in the 
shade of the trees. Adjacent to the barnyard 
is another large lamp of sufficient power to 
illuminate the whole of the territory between 
the house and barn. Attached to a tall pipe 
emerging from the ground is a steam whistle 
operated by natural gas and used for calling 
the men to dinner. Among the fruit trees 
of the orchard are pipe lines so laid that a 
simple touch of a match will protect the 
fruits against possible Injury from late frosts. 
Another line leads to a feed-cooker where 
warm cooked feeds may be prepared for such 
animals and poultry as need it in the Win¬ 
ter. The poultry-house is provided with a 
heater made from a section of an old cannon 
stove supplied with a gas jet so arranged as 
to heat the building, and when necessary to 
light it. 
The tank-heaters for warming stock water 
in the Winter are heated by natural gas. But 
perhaps the most interesting example of in¬ 
genuity on the place is to be found at the 
well. Mr. Tredway has a well of some 200 
feet depth. In this he has inserted a steam 
injector which is connected with the gas 
main in such manner that all he has to do 
is to turn a stopcock admitting the gas and 
it does all the pumping of the water that is 
needed on the place. Distant feed-lots, cor¬ 
rals, barns and pastures, as well as the house, 
are supplied with no exertion except that of 
turning the gas on to the pipe leading to the 
injector. The permanent water pipes are 
laid to each of the two barns, the sheep sheds, 
all the feed lots, the pastures, the house, the 
poultry-house an^ the feed-cooker, so that 
any one of these can be supplied at any or 
all times. Of course, by this means of pump¬ 
ing, the water is more or less impregnated 
with the gas, but it is found that this dissi¬ 
pates itself very soon, and his experience is 
that in the Summer season his cattle will 
cross the creek and come to the water trough 
for their drink because of the better quality 
and lower temperature of the well water. 
We have no means of knowing the amount of 
pressure existing in these gas wells, but we 
know that all of the uses to which Mr. Tred¬ 
way has adapted natural gas are available at 
the same. time.—Kansas Farmer. 
Swindlers in Talbot. 
Talbot County farmers, who were recently 
defrauded by sewing machine agents, are now 
being worked by one of the meanest tricks 
now out on “the pike.” As this shrewd de¬ 
vice for separating the honest toiler from his 
coin is likely to work its way into adjoining 
counties, the awful details are hereby given. 
In the first act of the tragedy a stranger 
appears on the road near the farmer's house, 
diligently searching for a lost diamond ring. 
As he does not find it, he offers $100 reward 
for its recovery. He goes away without find¬ 
ing the ring, and shortly afterward a tramp 
picks up a ring. The farmer, who is to be 
the victim, offers the supposed tramp $25 for 
it, expecting to receive the $100 reward. The 
tramp usually hesitates at first, but finally 
accepts the offer and leaves. When the farm¬ 
er cannot find the stranger, he grows intense, 
ly excited and his suspicions are aroused 
He has a jeweler examine the ring, who in¬ 
forms the agriculturist that his $25 invest¬ 
ment is worth 15 cents. He then goes off to 
patiently await the oncoming of another ol 
“them gol-darned sharpers.”—Pocomoke, Md., 
Ledger-Enterprise. 
Dishes Go to Farm's Owner. 
Marion Cheesebrough, the finder of the 
famous Otsego County dishes, will be com¬ 
pelled to give the ancient crockery to the 
owneis of the farm, Henry and Edward Bur¬ 
dick, according to a decision of Justice 
Forbes, at Canastota, when he overruled a de¬ 
murrer to the complaint in the action brought 
by the Burdicks against Mr. Cheesebrough. 
Marion Cheesebrough, a farmer in the town¬ 
ship of Edmeston, Otsego County, was plow¬ 
ing in a field near the Unadilla River last 
Spring, when his plow struck some hard sub¬ 
stance. Almost Immediately there was a 
crash as of broken crockery. The farmer 
investigated and found that his plow had un¬ 
earthed an old chest containing many pieces 
of china of an antique pattern. There were 
80 pieces in all, and more than 50 were saved 
intact. Old records indicate that they were 
buried where they were found fully 125 years 
ago by Perclfer Carr, who was in the employ 
of Colonel Edmeston, an officer in the French 
and Indian War. The papers in the case al¬ 
lege the dishes to be worth $2,500, but com¬ 
petent judges place the value at many thou¬ 
sands more. A collector offered $600 for one 
dish alone. The Burdicks gave a bond in the 
sum of $5,000 for the safe return of the 
dishes when called for by the court.—Oxford, 
N. Y. f Press. 
POWER FROM ARTESIANS WELLS. 
A good many farmers, also stockmen, 
use the artesian wells for power. They use 
a waterwheel or motor attached to the 
pipe from well, and use all kinds of ma¬ 
chinery with these wells, electric light 
power, feed grinding, cliurning, shelling 
corn, etc.; in fact, can do anything that 
can be done with power or machinery 
using a belt. A printing office in Huron 
does all of its press work by this power, 
so many using water that the power was 
not strong enough. A three-fourths-inch 
pipe from these wells has from 75 to 125 
pounds pressure; nothing uncommon for 
a six or eight-inch well to throw or spout 
water 100 to 250 feet high. When they 
dig them they cap the casing and reduce 
to any size; mostly in towns the wells are 
four to six-inch diameter. Farmers’ wells 
are 1% to two-inch. Anyone in this and 
adjoining counties can get water from 650 
to 800 feet, and lj^-inch well complete 
costs $375 to $400. They will contract to 
put in lJ4-inch well for $400. Something 
like 75 flowing wells were put in in this 
county in the last 12 months. It is the 
salvation of South Dakota, as it brings 
more rain; in fact, any farmer who has 
a flowing well can make a good thing here 
and not have to depend on rain. 
Huron, S. D. b. w. 
HOW FARMERS DIFFER. 
A few years ago I planted some potatoes. 
I was born on a farm, and have planted pota¬ 
toes for over 50 years, and have had fair suc¬ 
cess ; not a large potato grower, either, a 
small piece, say, one-fourth of an acre. I 
have for years cut the potatoes to two or 
three eyes, and almost always planted as soon 
as cut. .1 did so this year, except one bushel 
of different variety. The land was too wet 
to plow, and I thought to be ready as much 
as possible, so cut the potatoes and did not 
plant for a week after cutting. Then I picked 
up a paper and read in an article on potato 
culture, “Cut your potatoes to two eyes and 
plant right away, as every moment the potato 
is exposed to the air after cutting loses vital¬ 
ity. Don’t leave them in the sun.” I had 
a boy to drop them about 10 A. M., and then 
1 went to the postoffice about one-fourth mile 
away and met three farmers and the post¬ 
master, and told them I had some potatoes 
not covered and had them cut for over a 
week. Two farmers and postmaster said it 
was good for the potatoes to dry. One said 
no, plant right away. I had one row too 
many for the cut potatoes and planted fresh 
ones; I will see if there is any difference. 
I have two buildings covered with iron roof¬ 
ing. I have ordered Iron roofing placed on 
the house on the farm. Some say that iron 
roofing is fireproof and lightning proof, but 
J. II. H., of Steubenville, O., says he knows of 
three of his neighbor’s buildings struck by 
lightning. One man advocates soaking shin¬ 
gles in oil to make them last, the other man 
says no, they are more liable to burn. One man 
advocates a law to kill crows and hawks; an¬ 
other man writes in the same paper that the 
crow is the farmer’s friend In destroying 
thousands of worms and beetles. Every 
farmer knows full well the destruction that 
field mice do, and the little Sparrow hawk is 
Its enemy. Again, one farmer favors round 
tile and I think with good reason. I have 
had some experience and find me round tile 
much preferable, inasmuch as if they are a 
little crooked they can be turned until they 
will fit. M. J. 
Shandon, Ohio. 
The Pear psylla caused such serious in¬ 
juries in 1903 that its development should be 
closely watched this season, and the entomol¬ 
ogist is in hopes that the pear growers will 
give this insect particular attention. We are 
desirous of information upon the following 
points: Amount of injury to pear trees in 
your vicinity; present condition of pear trees 
injured by Pear psylla last year; present 
abundance of Pear psylla upon trees badly 
infested last season. We also hope that 
growers will continue to watch the develop¬ 
ment of the insect throughout the season and 
promptly report to us any great increase In 
their numbers. Plant lice were also very nu¬ 
merous and destructive last year, and wc are 
desirous of securing reports regarding their 
numbers the present season upon various 
fruit trees. We also wish to learn the ap¬ 
proximate date of their first appearance upon 
different kinds of trees, and observations as 
to the rapidity of their increase will be of 
great value. E - fblt. 
State Entomologist, Albany, N. Y. 
Eradicating Dandelions. 
F. P. B., Ayer, Mass .—How can I kill dan¬ 
delions in my lawn? 
Ans.— Never permit them to go to seed, 
and cut the crowns out of the grass with 
a stiff knife. This sounds very tedious, 
but there is really nothing else to be done. 
Even if all the tap root is not removed, 
the plant is much weakened by its decap¬ 
itation, and if the grass is kept short the 
dandelion is much discouraged. Of course 
the lawn will be constantly reseeded from 
adjoining places, so eternal vigilance is 
required. A taste for dandelion greens is 
a valuable aid in subduing this pest. 
Fining Hen Manure by Fermentation. 
J. P. B., Washington, N. C. —I wish to 
know how to manipulate the manure from 
my poultry houses so as to have it fine enough 
to distribute with a sower, my intention being 
to use It under drill crops. This manure con¬ 
tains no auulterants, with me exception of 
the daily sprinkling of road dust, but is very 
lumpy and quite dry, and to reduce this to 
a powder by beating with shovel or other¬ 
wise is a very tedious and unsatisfactory job. 
To about 3,000 pounds of the manure I pur¬ 
pose adding l,2u0 pounds 14 per cent acid 
phosphate, and 200 pounds muriate of potash. 
Would you consider this would give me a 
“complete” fertilizer? In my young days— 
some 30 years ago—I can recall how my 
father pulverized the fowlhouse manure. A 
layer of coarse ground animal bone was put 
down, then one of chicken manure, then one 
of refuse from the house, etc., which, if nec¬ 
essary, was moistened with urine. In a few 
days a heat was generated, the pile turned 
over, which being repeated two or three times, 
reduced the whole, so that it could be sown by 
hand nicely. The thought has often occured to 
me, since “doing for myself,” did not this 
heating process cause loss of ammonia? I 
may add that I have no machinery of any 
sort that could be utilized to grind it. 
Ans.— If the generation of heat was not 
so great as to dry the product thoroughly, 
the chance of loss would not be very great, 
as the ammonia that would be generated 
would be absorbed to some extent by the 
moist mass. If, however, sufficient heat 
was generated to dry the material, then I 
think there would have been a very consid- 
er-ble loss. I would suggest that in mix¬ 
tures of this sort land plaster be used in 
connection with the other materials, and 
then have the mass kept moist, in which 
case the loss of ammonia would be reduced 
to a minimum, and probably not be so 
great as to more than offset the cost of the 
labor involved in obtaining the fine mate¬ 
rial. E. B. VOORHEES. 
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