1904 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
47 7 
A TYPICAL VERMONT FARM. 
The picture shown at Fig. 207, page 475, 
may be considered a typical farm in the 
Green Mountains. To a western man 
accustomed to the level prairies these rug¬ 
ged lands may seem unpromising, but to 
the Green Mountain boy they present the 
smiling face of home. We are growing 
to understand more fully the farming pos¬ 
sibilities of the Eastern States, and we 
think conditions there are changing. Or¬ 
chard and dairy mean much to Vermont, 
as to her sister States, and we expect 
within the next generation these lines will 
add enormously to the wealth of the 
Eastern States. 
A LETTER HEAD THAT TALKS. 
The group of Jersey cattle shown on 
page 475, big. 206, is reproduced from a 
letter received in our general correspond¬ 
ence. The writer of it, a breeder of Jer¬ 
seys, selected a photograph showing some 
of his stock and had this reproduced on 
his stationery with excellent effect. The 
result is something both characteristic and 
ornamental, but it has a greater value 
than mere ornament. Everyone who re¬ 
ceives a letter from this man knows that 
he breeds fine cattle, and wherever that 
note paper goes an effective advertise¬ 
ment goes with it. We think this idea an 
excellent one, which might be carried out 
by many others. The business farmer 
should advertise his factory as carefully 
as any other business man. 
AN OCTAGONAL SILO. 
We have at one end of our barn an 
octagonal silo built in 1893 that gives us 
perfect silage. It is cheap to build, a per¬ 
manent structure and has not cost one 
cent for repairs. Fig. 208, page 475, illus¬ 
trates the way the framework is set, made 
of 2 x 6 inch sticks cut whatever length 
is wished, depending on the size of the 
silo you wish to build. Our sticks are 
eight feet long, lap across ends, and are 
spiked. These frames are set at different 
widths, being nearest together near the 
bottom of the silo, where the greatest 
strain comes. The first two are 15 and 
18 inches apart, the next two feet, and 
from this up to 3^2 feet near the top. The 
whole framework for this silo can be 
carried in a one-horse wagon, while our 
rectangular silo having the same capacity, 
required several two-horse loads of heavy 
timber, and yet it bulges at the sides, 
this one stays tight, as the pressure is 
practically equal all around the silo. 
There are no corners to speak of in this 
one, and no spoiled silage. 
We dug a ditch about 18 inches wide 
and two feet deep around where the frame¬ 
work was to set; this we filled with small 
stones and cemented-. The center was on 
hard-pan leveled up with small stones and 
cemented, and after silo was made run up 
a little on the side of the silo so rats could 
not get under the bottom. Rats and mice 
if possible will burrow under a silo and 
let air in and spoil considerable silage. 
On this foundation we set our first frame¬ 
work and succeeding ones at various 
widths as before stated, each section held 
up by a piece of 2 x 6 under the end of 
each piece, so that for each section eight 
short pieces are required besides the 2 x 
6 pieces. On the inside of this frame is 
one thickness of matched lumber running 
up and down, and the only care is to get 
each board tight at the ends of the frame¬ 
work section. One thickness is better 
than two, or two with paper between, 
as it will dry out quicker, and last longer. 
The outside may be covered or not, as 
desired. We covered ours with matched 
lumber for looks largely, although it 
makes a dead-air space, so that though 
ours faces northwest and the mercury 
goes almost out of sight sometimes, we 
are not bothered with frozen silage. We 
have two doors on one side for filling, and 
four doors open into the barn for feed¬ 
ing. These are simply traps between sec¬ 
tions of the framework, and are held in 
place by the silage. A roof can be built 
or not as desired. We like one to keep 
out snow, etc., but it is not necessary. An 
eight-point roof can be made, or a single¬ 
pitch roof. We have two rods running 
around silo, and these by use of the truss 
shown in Fig. 208 cover the lower six 
sections and are ample for the purpose. 
The truss is of two-inch plank cut out 
as in the cut and placed in center of sec¬ 
tion at points marked on the framework, 
so that the rod strikes the eight outside 
corners and the width cut in the truss. 
Several of these silos have been built 
in this section since ours, and owners are 
all pleased with them. h. g. m. 
A THREE HORSE EVENER. 
A few weeks ago you asked for infor¬ 
mation about using three horses on a 
wagon with a pole. My experience is not 
exactly what you ask for, but the details 
of the plan can be easily changed by 
anyone who wishes to use it. The dia¬ 
gram is of the three-horse evener with 
which I do all my turf plowing. With 
this on a No. 3 Columbia plow, rigged 
with an extra wide wing point, and to 
plow as narrow as it will, I can cut a 
20-inch furrow and lay it over flat. The 
off horse walks in the furrow, the other 
two on the land. A—B is a 2 x 3 white 
oak stick 45 inches from A to B. C, 
clevis for attaching to plow 15 inches 
from B, thus giving one horse two-thirds 
and the two horses one-third of the lever¬ 
age. D and E are my regular plow even- 
ers and an extra whiffletree respectively, D 
being 32 inches long. An extra cross line 
is buckled on to the regular team lines. 
I have used this same evener with a 
pole, both on wagon and bobsled a few 
times. The evener is fastened to the pole 
at C in the ordinary manner, the pole 
passing between horses No. 1 and No. 2, 
which are hitched to the neckyoke, No. 3 
being free. This brings the pole rather 
close to No. 2, especially when turning to 
the right. This can be obviated by length¬ 
ening A—B as much as may be advisable 
if the proportions are maintained the 
same; all measurements from center to 
center of clevis. h. s. b. 
New Britain, Conn. 
GARDEN NOTES. 
Flow about the advice of Mr. Morse 
regarding tar paper protectors? If he 
means the ordinary tar roofing paper I 
should be afraid to try it—at least, the 
kind we get here. Of course his experi¬ 
ence discounts mine by about 1,000 per 
cent, but in putting on a new roof on a 
shed last week I noticed that where the 
scraps of tar paper had laid over night 
the grass was burnt and yellow next 
day, although on the north side of build¬ 
ing, and no sun struck them. One place 
about three by four feet looks just as if 
lye had been poured on it. Of course 
the grass was in actual contact with the 
paper, but so would the plants be to some 
extent, and would there not be danger 
to tender plants where grass shows bad 
effects? 
I have been trying carbon bisulphide 
for moles in my garden. It works all 
right from what I can judge. Up to this 
week there was a happy family of about 
six which subsoiled the place about as 
fast as I could tramp it down again. 
Right after the rain I watched for fresh 
marks and opened each place and intro¬ 
duced a rag and about two ounces of 
the stuff, and then covered over to keep 
in the gas. It wouldn’t be much use on 
large plots on account of trouble and 
cost, but it took me only about 15 min¬ 
utes and 15 cents to rid my one-eighth 
acre, which was riddled before. 
Will wood ashes keep away cutworms? 
My place is loaded with them (worms) 
and I have about a bushel or so of ashes 
saved from the open fire last Winter. If 
not good for that, would it be safe to put 
on growing crops? I have about every¬ 
thing planted that grows and wonder, 
which needs them most. * c. c. 1 
R. N.-Y.—We have little faith in wood 
ashes for killing cutworms. The ashes 
are excellent for all garden crops, par¬ 
ticularly onions, cabbage and peas. 
DOG AND ROBIN NOTES. 
I endorse what E. Tully says on page 427. 
I also will subscribe one dollar to defend the 
first reader of Tub It. N.-Y. who is arrested 
for killing any kind of bird for destroying bis 
fruit. I have cherry trees 10 years old on 
which I have never seen a ripe cherry; ail 
eaten by birds before they ripen. I have 
some new sorts on which I wish to see one 
ripe cherry, and 1 have a few of them covered 
so the birds can’t get them. I have over 100 
cherry trees planted. If I knew this law 
would not be repealed I would grub out the 
last one of them. The birds destroy raspuer- 
ries and strawberries as well as cherries. 1 
am now replanting corn that has been pulled 
up by crows and other birds. In some rows 
for 30 feet they did not leave a single plant. 
We certainly have some very unjust laws. In 
this State all nurserymen have to pay a fee 
of $20 for a certilicate to sell trees. This 
law is putting all the small nurserymen out 
of the business. I hope The K. N.-Y. will do 
all it can to have this bird law repealed. 
Virginia. jno. w. martin. 
I wish to add my hearty amen to E. 
Tally's article on page 427. I was wonder¬ 
ing if Katharine It. Styer, on page 421, was 
a farmer’s wife, and had eight large cherry 
trees, as I have, and was fond of cherries, 
her trees loaded with fruit, as mine were in 
1902 and 1903, when I did not have a 
cherry for the table, the robins taking them 
as fast as one turned red. 1 am engaged 
in small fruit culture; the pickers start 
out in the morning, a flock of robins ahead 
of them; in the middle of the day pickers get 
scattered over the field so they can keep the 
birds off. It is not only what they eat, but 
we find large berries dropped a great dis¬ 
tance from the field. Then come the cur¬ 
rants and raspberries; nothing is exempt 
from their appetite, still we must not kill 
one. We cannot put up anything to scare 
them; we can put up scarecrows for the 
crow and blackbird or tar our corn and keep 
them off, and we may shoot the crow and 
blackbird, but must not shoot a robin. If 
the farmers of New York State could vote 
on the subject they would vote the pests out 
of existence. Let us paste our law-makers 
with postage stamps. J. J. p. 
New York. 
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R. N.-Y. and you will get a quick reply and 
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Summer Spraying For Scale. —Regarding 
the spraying of young peach and apple trees 
wth a weak solution of whale-oil soap the 
latter part of June, if trees have been treat¬ 
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Winter, I do not think it would be neces¬ 
sary to use the wliale-oil soap, but think 
we can safely use one pound soap to five 
gallons of water. It would be best to 
try that on one or two trees, as the soap is 
so variable that one cannot be sure how 
much the trees will stand. Albert Wood. 
Orleans Co., uses one to four or one to five 
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whale-oil soap, lime, sulphur, and salt, or 
crude oil in early Spring. On trees of that 
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