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THE? RURAL NEW-YORKER 
March 6, 
A POWER MANURE FORK. 
One of the worst jobs on the farm 
is loading manure. The wagon spreader 
unloads and puts the manure just 
where it is wanted, and the manure 
carriers take it from the stable and 
carry it to the barnyard. When these 
carriers dump their load directly upon 
the spreader hand work is pretty well 
eliminated, but on nearly every large 
farm it is necessary to pile some of 
the manure. This has been forked 
by hand into the wagon or spreader— 
a slow, hard job. Now we have the 
manure fork, in which the horses do 
the loading. A good picture of the 
implement is shown in cut below. As 
will be seen, the fork—somewhat the 
shape of a scraper—operates in what 
is like a cattle chute on wheels. A 
not well grounded. If the common or 
bearded barley will perfect itself in 
the climate I know of no reason why 
the beardless will not. Before aban¬ 
doning the beardless, positive evidence 
should be had in regard to this point. 
Nor should the bearded variety be con¬ 
demned for hogging down, till un¬ 
doubted proof is had that it is det¬ 
rimental to the hogs. The feeling of 
the writer is that he would be like 
he is with rye; would take all chances 
of injury rather than harvest and 
thrash it. John m. jamison. 
Planer Shavings as Bedding. 
II. II. L., Brooklyn, N. T .—A new enter¬ 
prise, which I have gone into, forces me 
to dispose of about 100 tons of planer 
shavings, mostly oak, annually. I am buy¬ 
ing about 14 tons of rye straw for bedding 
for my horses every year and would like 
to use the shavings in place of the straw, 
provided I am sure the shavings will have 
no ill effect on my meadows and grazing 
POWER MANURE FORK. 
rope running over a pulley hauls up 
the loaded fork. One man stands on 
the pile and holds the fork in the man¬ 
ure. A team of horses pull on the 
rope and draw the loaded fork through 
the chute, and at the top the load is 
self-dumped upon the wagon. Then 
the fork goes back for another load. 
Several western farmers inform us that 
this loader is a great convenience in 
handling large piles of manure. It 
could probably be used to advantage in 
loading or unloading manure cars, but 
we think it would be necessary to have 
a large amount of manure to handle in 
order to make it pay. The machine 
is made by the Dean Carrier Co., of 
Iowa, who report a number in success¬ 
ful operation . _ 
Barley Beards and Hogs. 
I am contemplating planting about 17 
acres of land which is fenced hog-tight in 
barley, and then when it is ripe or nearly 
so turning about 100 shotes into it, a few 
acres at a time. Can you tell me whether 
the hogs will suffer any injury from the 
beards on the grain? Some here tell me the 
land, which are now in first-class condi¬ 
tion, through a yearly application, top¬ 
dressing, ot' horse manure and high-grade 
fertilizer. I cut last year on 30 acres over 
90 tons of hay, and had besides an abund¬ 
ance of pasture for brood mares and colts. 
Naturally I do not wish to spoil my 
meadows, and therefore wish to ask your 
advice about the shavings. I have been 
using and intend to use lime freely. I 
have bought 40 tons of ground limestone 
and have tiiis on the farm, now ready 
to be spread on the Alfalfa and the 
meadows. r am always willing to be 
guided by the light of experience. 
Ans. —We shall regard it as a favor 
if farmers will give us their experience 
with the shavings. We have spent some 
time investigating the matter. The 
facts appear to be that the shavings con¬ 
tain an acid which in large quantities is 
injurious to the soil. If this acid is 
neutralized the shavings will do no more 
harm than straw. The stable liquids 
and the fermentations in the manure pile 
are alkaline. When the shavings are 
thoroughly soaked in the liquids and 
remain for a time in the manure pile 
the acid is neutralized and such man¬ 
ure will do no damage. In any case it 
is likely that the lime would overcome 
the trouble. We have considerable tes¬ 
timony from farmers who have used the 
shavings and fpund them as safe as 
straw. 
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bald or beardless barley will drop its heads 
before they fill, as this is an irrigated 
valley, and the air is too dry for them to 
fill properly. Is there anything in this? 
The ordinary barley yields from 65 to 80 
bushels per acre here, and as I want to 
feed before thrashing time I am anxious to 
know regarding the hogging off of the crop. 
Nampa, Idaho. w. n. v. G. 
The writer has had no experience in 
hogging barley, but a life-long experi¬ 
ence in hogging rye, with no losses on 
account of the beards. This is known 
in regard to bar’ey beards. After the 
grain is thrashed, much value is at¬ 
tached to the straw as roughage for 
horses, and doubtless cattle, also, with 
no complaint on account of the beards. 
If horses can handle them in the straw, 
undoubtedly the hogs can before they 
are thrashed. I have noticed brood 
sows 1 pull rye heads through their 
mouths, shelling out the grain to avoid 
eating the beards. This they do before 
the beards are softened with age. After 
a time in this climate the beards soften 
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