1909. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
266 
CARE OF ENGINE. 
Here is a picture of the connecting 
rod of a six horse power gasoline engine 
which broke by allowing the bolts in 
the piston to work loose and pound, and 
consequently the flying balance wheels 
with rod attached broke the main engine 
protecting the chess and the ■ latter 
grows. Chess seeds are lifriit and blow 
around during Winter, growing to ma¬ 
turity when conditions are right. This 
often follows a Winter unfavorable for 
wheat—thus giving the impression that 
the wheat turned into chess. In our 
country soil is filled with Timothy seeds. 
Let the soil alone after any crops and 
in a year or two there is a fair sod 
of Timothy. We have planted a potato 
crop with such a poor yield that it was 
not even dug. A year later the field 
was well covered with Timothy, yet 
this was not evidence that the potatoes 
turned to grass. 
AN ILL-USED CONNECTING ROD. 
frame, necessitating $75 worth of repairs. 
I am sending the photograph hoping to 
teach other owners of engines to keep 
their eyes and ears open. w. 
Greene, N. Y. 
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Wheat and Chess. 
L. B. C., Mendota, 111 :—The following 
propositions have been laid down to me re¬ 
cently : That chess follows and succeeds 
Winter wheat by operation of natural laws 
•—a sort of degenerate wheat. That Win¬ 
ter wheat, when blown down or wasted, 
seeds the ground to what is known a£ chess. 
That in making a sort of round through 
a field of Winter wheat the track could be 
traced br a well-defined line of “chess.” 
That a crop of Winter wheat blown down 
and wasted was followed by a prosperous 
crop of the aforesaid “chess.” That the 
next crop, i. e., the third from the wheat, 
was a full rampant growth of Timothy hay. 
All this as naturally following and suc¬ 
ceeding the wheat, without seeding to any¬ 
thing. This is asserted by a farmer of 
wealth, mature years and large experience. 
How far do the “wise men of the East” ac¬ 
cord with this? To what extent does 
science agree? This is stated by my in¬ 
formant as actual experience on his own 
farm.. 
Axs.—Chess and wheat can no more 
change into each other than a cow can 
change into a horse. Chess is one of 
the brome grasses, Bromus Secalinus. 
Cultivated wheat is Triticum sativa, each 
is the same under all conditions. Wheat 
holds its botanical character under all 
conditions of growth. A finely-bred 
Jersey cow might “degenerate” through 
abuse until she looked like the poorest 
scrub, but she would not change into 
a broncho horse. It would be just as 
impossible for wheat to “degenerate” into 
chess. We have had farmers bring us 
plants pulled up with dirt around the 
roots, with chess and wheat apparently 
growing on the same plant. In every 
case we were able to wash away the 
dirt and convince these farmers that the 
chess and the wheat started each from 
its own seed, and were growing side 
by side—close together. 
The fact that one crop follows an¬ 
other on a certain treatment of the soil 
is not always sure evidence. In one 
case an old farmer had a piece of land 
on which clover had not grown for 
several years. He put on a dressing of 
ashes from a furnace in which both 
wood and coal were burned. Then he 
had a fair stand of clover. He argued 
from this that there were clover seeds 
in the ashes and that burning had not 
destroyed them but multiplied the germs. 
He ought to have burned all his seeds 
if he believes that evidence. The 
truth was that the clover seeds were 
in the soil. The ashes gave just the condi¬ 
tions needed to make the clover grow 
—and it grew! Seedlings of chess, 
like, many weeds, are everywhere in 
grain countries. When the wheat lodges 
or is blown down it gives a mulch for 
You will be responsible 
AT HARD EST TIME 
If thing's dorit go right 
R IGHT then at harvest time are you to know 
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