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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER: 
March 3. 
A CLUSTER OF POMELOS , 
The picture shown at Fig. 72, page 170, 
was made from a very fine photograph 
taken for The R. N.-Y. by L. B. Owen of 
Tampa, Fla. It shows a cluster of 18 
large pomelos, weighing 30 pounds, at¬ 
tached to a stem five-eighths of an inch 
in diameter. The bunch measures, over 
all, 42 inches perpendicularly and 40 inches 
in girth, and is considered something ex¬ 
traordinary even for southern Florida, 
attracting much attention when exhibited 
in the show windows of its owner, L. M. 
Antuono, on Franklin St., Tampa, until 
sold to be shipped to New York City. 
The picture is notable for showing the 
reflection of the cluster in the mirror, and 
it plainly illustrated the sole reason why 
the pomelo is popularly known as grape 
fruit from its tendency to fruit in clusters. 
J. YATES PEEK. 
A Cement-Lined Tank. 
J. B. L., Beau kiss, Tex .—I Irrigate a three- 
acre garden with a windmill. I pump from 
a storm reservoir into a smaller one built 
on highest part of land, but it seeps a great 
deal, although it has a good clay foundation, 
and at times gophers bore under the dam 
and cause the land to be too wet and sour. 
The small reservoir is not a success. I have 
been thinking of building a tank of two-inch 
lumber, cemented inside, and elevated 12 feet 
high. A tank 12 feet long, six feet wide and 
six feet high containing about 3,000 gallons 
would cost me not more than $25, while a 
galvanized cistern of the same size would 
cost $50 and be liable to rust in no time. 
Would such a tank be a success? Would 
cement stick to lumber? Would frost in 
Winter or shrinkage of lumber in Summer 
cause the cement (o crack? Water could be 
is danger of freezing in the Winter the 
reservoir should be emptied and the rim 
should be so shaped that there will be no 
tendency for water to stand upon its sur¬ 
face to over-saturate the soil around the 
edges of the reservoir; otherwise, if the 
ground freezes at all deeply, the tendency 
should be to crack the cement. If the 
ground freezes deeply during the Winter 
there might be danger of the ground 
freezing through the cement even on the 
bottom, and causing cracking, unless a 
protection of straw or rough litter of 
some sort were thrown over it. It would 
require considerable freezing, however, 
unless the soil were very full of water be¬ 
neath the reservoir, to injure the cement 
in this way. [Prof.] f. h. king. 
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Yellow Locust, Persimmons.—R eferring 
to page 912, W. R., Winchester, Va., quail are 
very fond of the seeds of the Black or 
Yellow locust, and while this tree will not 
make a hedge like Honey locust, it will 
provide both food and shelter for your 
querist’s birds. Ruralisms, page 914; in 
South Missouri may be found very large per¬ 
simmons which ripen just before frost, and 
frost injures them as badly as it does a 
tomato. They are flatfish, and resemble a 
tomato in form, color yellow and red. 
Ohio. c. D. Ll’ON. 
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Asparagus Roots-' g “ a J l ' 0 ,"i":r. A „5 
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TARTAR OATS 
Imported from Tartary iti 
1901, now acknowledged the 
most productive Oats Grown. 
Grains white, plump, weighing 36 to 
40 lbs. Straw, stiff, yellow, 4 to 5 
feet long. 
20 Acres Produced 2117 bu. 
Seed direct from this crop, 2 bu. at 
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A. H. HOFFMAN, Bamford, Lane. Co., Pa, 
WILL IT SOAK IN? 
drawn in Winter. Being built of two-inch 
lumber well braced, cemented inside and 
painted outside, it seems to me such a tank 
ought to last a lifetime. What think you? 
Ans.—A wooden cement-lined tank, 
built as suggested, would not prove satis¬ 
factory, as, unless it were built very 
strong, there would be danger of the ce¬ 
ment cracking through a springing of the 
walls. A more satisfactory solution of 
the problem would be to shape the reser¬ 
voir of the desired size in the ground and 
line this with a cement lining. If a great¬ 
er height than the one at present in use is 
desired it would be possible to grade up 
a mound four or five feet higher than the 
surface and shape the reservoir in the 
summit of this. In this way a reservoir 
of satisfactory size would be more readily 
secured at a much less cost A tank of 
the size your correspondent proposes 
would hold only water enough to apply 
two inches to 1-17 of an acre, and this 
is too small for very effective service in 
irrigation. A round reservoir four feet 
deep, 20 feet in diameter on the bottom 
and with sides sloping as steeply as dirt 
will lie, would hold water enough to cover 
two inches deep between one-sixth and 
one-fifth of an acre, and a smaller reser¬ 
voir than this seems hardly desirable; in¬ 
deed, one larger would be better if much 
dependence is placed upon the irrigation. 
Before cementing, the soil should be 
thoroughly tamped, so that settling will 
not take place, and then the bottom and 
sides should be covered with a coat of 
concrete not less than two inches in thick¬ 
ness, made of four parts of sand and 
gravel to one of cement; finishing the sur¬ 
face, as the work progresses, by sprink¬ 
ling over it dry cement and trowelling 
this smooth, to make the immediate sur¬ 
face more completely watertight. If there 
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