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FARMERS’ CLUB 
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KEEP THEM IN MIND. 
Do not forget that the following members 
of the New York Senate voted against Gov¬ 
ernor Hughes In his efforts to remove the 
Superintendent of Insurance. Let it he a 
part of your political duty to remember them 
and vote against them whenever you have the 
chance: 
JOTHAM P. ALLDS.Norwich, N. Y. 
ALBERT T. FANCHER-Salamanca, N. Y. 
S. P. FRANCHOT. ... Niagara Falls, N. Y. 
S. PERCY HOOKER.I.eRoy, N. Y. 
JOHN RAINES.Canandaigua, N. Y. 
SANFORD W. SMITH.Chatham. N. Y. 
WM. J. TULLY.Corning, N. Y. 
HORACE WHITE.Syracuse. N. Y. 
BENJ. M. WILCOX.Auburn, N. Y. 
JOSEPH ACKROYD.Utica, N. Y. 
FRANK M. BOYCE_East Schodack, N. Y. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
November 9, 
Rusty Water. 
A. C. G., (No Address ).—Perhaps you or 
some of your family can tell me how to 
remedy pump water that turns rust red when 
boiled, and of course turns the clothes yellow. 
It seems to he the general complaint here. 
Ans. —If the iron carried in solution in 
the water is not the result of the action 
of the water on the iron of the pump, it 
is doubtful whether anything can be done 
by private parties to render the water 
suitable for laundry purposes. Much bet¬ 
ter would it be to construct a cistern and 
collect rain water for washing. If the 
iron in the water comes from the corro¬ 
sion of the iron suction and discharge 
pipe of the pump the substitution of a 
wooden pump, with wooden cylinder, suc¬ 
tion and discharge pipe would remedy the 
difficulty. F. H. KING. 
Manure and Fertilizer for Grapes. 
F. II., Winona, Ont .—Is horse manure 
from stables where mostly grain is fed, and 
slaughter house refuse mixed a good thing 
to put on vineyards, or would it encourage 
too much wood growth? Is muriate of pot¬ 
ash good for grapes? How and when should 
it he applied? 
Ans. —We think this manure and 
slaughter refuse would make too much 
wood growth. We would use potash 
and phosphoric acid with it. Sulphate 
of potash is better than muriate for 
grapes. It will give a higher flavor. If 
we used such manure we should use at 
least 30 pounds of sulphate of potash 
and 50 pounds acid phosphate to each 
ton of manure. You can plow the ma¬ 
nure under, then broadcast the chemicals 
and harrow them in. 
Use of Stored Soil. 
TV. G. N., St. Peters, Pa .—Would soil used 
in cellar last Winter for covering vegetables, 
such as beets and celery, having remained 
there dry through the Summer, he suitable 
for the purpose of raising Winter rhubarb 
and for potting Diants, or must fresh earth 
be carried in, and why? 
Ans. —We have for years used soil 
for potting purposes, that had been pre¬ 
viously used for covering celery, with no 
bad results. Beets, on the other hand, 
are known to carry the germs of Potato 
scab, and it might therefore be object¬ 
ionable to use for potting purposes soil 
that had covered them, as it might infect 
some kinds of young plants. There would 
however, *be little objection to using it 
in raising Winter rhubarb. Rhubarb is 
so far apart from the beet botanically that 
there would probably be no danger from 
infection. The soil, if properly mois¬ 
tened, should do fully as well as that 
brought from the outside. 
Potatoes to Follow Crimson Clover. 
F. C. B.. Repaupo, N. J .—T have eight 
acres of Timothy sod in corn; it is a sandy 
loam. I sowed it in Crimson clover the last 
time I went through the corn, think I have 
about 50 bushels to the acre, and have a good 
take of clover four inches high. I want to 
put up 10 tons of New York horse manure 
to the acre, and 800 pounds of kainit. What 
else do I need to get a good crop of white 
potatoes? 
Ans.—F rom our experience we would 
not put either horse manure or kainit on 
this ground for potatoes. We would let 
the clover grow. Plow in under in 
Spring, fit the ground and use 1,000 
pounds or more of some high-grade po¬ 
tato fertilizer per acre. Stable manure 
is apt to increase the scab on potatoes. 
It supplies nitrogen, and so will the 
clover. If you use too much of it your 
potatoes well be pretty much all tops. 
As for kainit we would prefer to use sul¬ 
phate of potash, or even muriate on po¬ 
tatoes. The kainit contains too much 
salt. We know that some potato growers 
in New Jersey follow this plan of using 
manure during the Winter. We do not 
think the manure is needed in addition 
to the clover, and on our own farm 
would use the manure on corn or other 
crops. 
A Case of Potato Blight.- 
W. B. F., Andrews, N. C .—On June 25 I 
prepared and planted one acre in potatoes 
on an oat stubble where I had harvested a 
good crop of oats. I used 500 pounds potato 
fertilizer on the acre, distributed in the 
furrow. The potatoes came up quickly, grew 
off nicely and in 30 days they were blooming 
and had young potatoes under them ; at 50 
days I never saw finer prospects for potatoes; 
the vines large and rank, hut at 00 days 
the vines began to die, and 70 days from 
the day I planted they were all dead, making 
me oniy about a third of crop, when if they 
had grown 30 days longer I would have had 
a large yield. They were loaded with pota¬ 
toes, hut the vines dying cut them off. What 
was the cause of the vines dying so soon? 
Was it the blight? If so could I have kept 
this off by spraying, and how much would it 
have cost? If this was the trouble and it 
can he kept off by spraying there is no reason 
why the farmers cannot get a crop of pota¬ 
toes off their oat, rye or wheat stubble the 
same year when they are planted late, ns in 
this case they grow so much quicker and have 
plenty of time to mature before frost, October 
10 to 15. 
Ans.— This was probably a case of 
blight. It could have been prevented, or 
at least the vines could have been kept 
alive longer, by a thorough spraying with 
Bordeaux Mixture. Write to your State 
Experiment Station at Raleigh for bulle¬ 
tins telling how to make Bordeaux and 
how to use it. If you can mature a crop 
of potatoes after oats by spraying the 
vines you will have a great opportunity 
to push your soil hard, for you can sow 
rye and vetch after potatoes to be plowed 
under for grain again in the Spring. 
Water Foaming in Boiler. 
I. A. 8., West Hartford, Ark .—Is there 
anything that will prevent water from 
foaming in steam boiler? The one I am 
interested in is a sawmill. The water steams 
well in the early part of the day. hut foams 
so badly after noon that the work is often 
stopped for the want of steam. 
Ans. —Those who write for practical 
steam engineers assign as the great cause 
for “foaming” or “priming” too little 
water space or steam room in the boiler; 
defective circulation of the water owing 
to faulty design; or else that the boilers 
have too small a capacity to furnish the 
steam as rapidly as the engine is desired 
to use it. The use of muddy water is 
sometimes held to be the cause of it. But 
where a boiler is large enough to do the 
work, giving plenty of water and steam 
space, foaming seldom occurs. The symp¬ 
toms of foaming are the violent agitation 
of the water in the glass gauge and some¬ 
times cracking noises heard in the cylin¬ 
der. There may be great danger in the 
working of an engine under conditions 
which result in foaming. The violent agi¬ 
tation of the water by the steam tends to 
carry the water itself in the liquid form 
into the cylinder, and may do so in such 
quantities as to too nearly fill the clear¬ 
ance space in the cylinder and cause the 
cylinder head to be driven out. Then, 
too, when the boiler is foaming the gauge 
may be apparently full of water when 
there is not enough present, so that, when 
the engine is stopped, water will be drawn 
entirely out of the pressure gauge, and 
such a condition is one liable to result in 
boiler explosions. The first thing to do 
when a boiler is foaming is partly to 
close the throttle valve, so as to slow 
down the engine, thereby drawing off less 
steam. If water has been driven into the 
cylinder the water cocks should be opened 
until it has been discharged. Careful in¬ 
spection should be given to the water 
gauge to see where the water stands 
when foaming ceases. If too heavy a fire 
has been developed in the furnace, caus¬ 
ing a too rapid formation of steam for 
the capacity of the boiler, this may be 
checked by opening the door or closing 
the damper. Not only is there danger of 
accident from explosion by working an 
engine under conditions which favor 
foaming, but the violent agitation of the 
water tends to throw impurities in the 
form of sediment into the cylinder, which 
cut out the cylinder face, piston rings, 
valves and valve faces, thus causing per- 
menent injury to the engine. An engine 
which is regularly in the habit of foam¬ 
ing is dangerous to use unless it is run 
at such a speed that foaming is not 
caused. . F. H. king. 
The Mayflower PEAcn.—A question was 
recently asked about this peach. The J- 
VanLlndley Co., of Pomona, N. C., send us 
the following: “It is a red peach earlier 
than Sneed, found as a seedling in Missis¬ 
sippi. In regard to quality, none of the 
very early peaches are high in quality, but 
we can say for the Mayflower that it is as 
good as Alexander, which is a passable peach 
in quality of its season. We believe the 
Mayflower is going to prove a valuable early 
peach for market. We shipped our first 
Mayflowers to market this year in quantities; 
had several hundred three-peck crates which 
sold at from $3 to .$4 a ernte, averaging $3.50 
per crate. They went on the market along with 
Sneeds from farther South. The Mayflower 
was red all over, nnd the Sneed greenish, 
and we got fancy prices. We have 6,000 May¬ 
flower trees in our market orchard at South¬ 
ern Pines, and expect to plant more this 
Winter. We have fruited it live years in suc¬ 
cession, and we know what it is. We have 
enough faith in it to keep on planting trees 
of it.” 
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WHEN VOU BUY AN ACRMOTO.R FO« 
PUMPING WATER, THJ EXPENSE 
A STOPS WHEN THE OUTFIT IS UP 
YOU DO NUT HAVE TO KEEP 
T ^ HIGH LY COMBUSTIBLE FUEL 
AROUND YOUR BUILDINGS 
WHICH WILL INCREASE. OR IN 
VALIDATE VOUR INSURANCE 
YOU DO NOT HAVE TO TURN A 
CRANK TO GET IT STARTED II 
NEVER MISSES FIRE. IT RUNS 
WITHOUT NOISE AND DOES NO! 
THROW OFF ANY BAD ODORS, H IS 
SO SIMPLE IN CONSTRUCTION THAT 
MECHANICAL KNOWLEDGE IS NOT NEC 
ES5ARY TO CARE FOR IT PROPERLY 
YOU DO NOT NEED TO SEND FOR A HIGH 
PRICED EXPERT EVERY FEW WEEKS.TO 
OVERHAUL IT. FOR It NEVER GETS OUT 
OF ORDER. AN AERMOTOR MAY BE LEFT 
TO DO ITS WORK FOR OAYS AT A TIME 
WITHOUT CARE OR ATTENTION IF YOU 
SHOULD FORGET TO LOOK AFTER IT 
SOME COLD WINTER NIGHT. IT WILL NOT 
FREEZE UP AND BURST A CYLINDER 
\ YOU NEVER HAVE TO WONDER WHY If 
A WILL NOT GO. FOR IT ALWAYS GOES 
1 WITH AN AERMOTOR REGULATOR AT 
L TACHED TO IT. THE AERMOTOR STOPS 
1 • WHEN THE TANK IS FULL AND STARTS 
1\ AUTOMATICALLY WHEN A LITTLE 
I' WATER IS TAKEN OUT. 
M 1 THE FOLLOWING ARE THE FUNOA- 
MENTAL QUESTIONS TO KEEP IN 
V/V mind: which is the cheaper 
/ '| WIND OR GASOLINE? WHICH IS THE 
\l \1 SAFER TO HAVE AROUNO YOUtf 
V V PREMISES, OR TO MONKEY WITH] 
/\ \\. WHICH IS EASIER TO START UP ANO 
!\ \ .V- Aor on-re-_ a m rwr.iNr no a uuirun. 
WINDMILL V 
MAKE THE 1 
SO EASILY {I 
THE EFFI- . 
WILL BE £ 
G RE A T .2 
MOVABLE ] 
PROVIDE £ 
KET BE- ' 
OIL CANNOT 
BY PASSING 
SHAFT. ^ 
INGSARE ^ 
s 
1 
OF THE 
ANYONE WITH A WRENCH CAN 
CHANGE IN FIVE MINUTES THIS IS 
DONE THAT IT WILL BE DONE AND 
Cl :NCY AND LIFE OF THE WINDMILL 
GREATLY INCREASED. ANOTHER 
FEATURE OF THE RE- 
ARMS IS. THAT THEY 
A LARGE, OIL-TIGHT POC- 
~‘**" P * TWEFN THE BF.ARINGS. J 
ESCAPE FROM THIS POCKET EXCEPT I 
OVER THE BEARINGS NEXT TO THE I 
THE OIL POCKET AND THE BEAR- I 
ALSO PRACTICALLY DUST-PnOOF. I 
THE TRUSSED TRIPOO TOWER IS THE ONLY TOWER 
WITH THE BASE ENTIRELY FREE. CLEAR AND UNOB¬ 
STRUCTED. A SERIOUS TROUBLE WITH OTHER TOWERS 
IS, THAT THE BRACES AND GIRTS IN THE LOWER PART OF 
THE TOWER PREVENT GOING FREELY TO THE PUMP, AND 
BEING IN THE WAY OF STOCK, FREQUENTLY GET BENT OR 
BROKEN. THUS WEAKENING THE TOWER. THE TRUSSED 
TRIPOD TOWER IS THE STRONGEST TOWER THAT HAS 
EVER BEEN MADE. AND ALWAYS ^STANDS ON ALL THRF.E ■ 
LEGS. EVERYONE KNOWS THAT THE THREE-LEGGED I 
MILK STOOL ALWAYS STANDS FIRMLY ON ALL THREE I 
LEGS. WHILE THE FOUR-LEGGED MILK STOOu I 
ALMOST NEVER STANDS ON MORE THAN THREE LEGS. I 
THE TRUSSED TRIPOD TOWER IS STOCK PROOF ONT I 
CAN ALMOST RIDE UNDER IT ON HORSEBACK. A .i D AND I 
MALS MAY BE ALLOWED iO RUN UNDER !T WITFOUT I 
DANGER TO THEMSELVESOR TO • ■ OWL. - A LARGE I 
TANK MAY BE PLACED CLOSE TO THE PUMP ANO THE I 
STOCK CAN EASILY GET TO I FROM ALl SIDES WHEN I 
ERECTED IN THE YARD THE TRUSSED 1RIPO TOWER |~7 
MAY STAND OVER A WALK OR CLOSE TO A DOOR. WITH I / 
OUT BEING IN THE WAY THIS TOWER IS MADE ONLY tJV 1/ 
AERMOTOR COMPANY. THE COMPANY WHICH M/.C.F I// 
THE STEEL TOWER BUSINESS I// 
THE lO-FOOT AERMOTOR IS NOW MADE WITH Jf 
EVERY PART IN EXACT PROPORTION TO THE e-FOOT 1/ 
ANO 12-FOOT SIZES I 
Aermotor Co., Chicago f 
m 
V OPERATE-AN ENGINE OR A WINO- 
I MILL? WHICH REQUIRES THE 
\\ MOST ATTENTION WHILE IT IS 
/i\ WORKING? WHICH IS THE SAFER 
'fil IF LEFT BY ITSELF TO RUN ALL 
|i NIGHT? WHICH WOULD YOU 
\ RATHER HAVE THE CHILDREN 
l\ * >I - AY W,TH? 
\\ CONSIDERING THE EXTREME- 
LY LOW COST (AN 8-FOOT WHEEL 
\\. AND 30-FOOT TOWER COSTS $51 
• 1\ F. O. B. CHICAGO). GREAT EFFI- 
ll CIENCY, DURABILITY AND USE- 
FULNESS. IT IS SURPRISING 
\ THAT A NY WELL IN TOWN OR 
|\ COUNTRY IS WITHOUT AN 
i 1\ AERMOTOR. DOUBTLESS YO.U 
V . J COULD USE ONE OR MORE TO 
\ \| ADVANTAGE. BUT HAVE NOT 
\ ’» THOUGHT OF IT. TRY ONE 
\ |\ AND SEE HOW USEFUL AND 
V 1\ ECONOMICAL IT IS OF TIME 
AND MONEY. WRITE US OR 
t \ \1 ORDER THROUGH YOUR LO- 
\ \ \ CAL DEALER. DESCRIPTIVE 
\ \ V) C,RCULARS ° N RE0 ^ EST - 
\\l THE TRUSSED TRIPOD 
‘ \ \ 1\ TOWER GIVES 
III HEAD ROOM 
IS % PUMP ROOM 
Hi \ STOCK ROOM 
\ 
TANK ROOM 
