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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
April 3, 
ARTESIAN IRRIGATION IN TEXAS. unless specially ordered, but it costs 
On page 289, O. J. B. asks for in- no more. A variety is relished by them, 
formation on farming by irrigation as as, for instance, oats, cracked wheat, 
carried on in the West. Irrigation from barley or buckwheat, if they are on 
the artesian wells is the sole source of in- the farm. A few roots cut up small 
come to the vegetable growers in the are also good, as is fine, nice, early cut, 
Texas gulf coast country. The artesian or second crop clover hay. 
water flows from the ground at a tem¬ 
perature of about 81 degrees, always 
warmer than the air during the Winter 
months, when irrigation is practical. 
EDWARD VAN ALSTYNE. 
Government Whitewash. 
IF. A. U., Oceanside, X. Y .—I see that 
The water is collected and stored in ^ ou re Pcat the old Government whitewash 
earth tanks varying in capacity from 
800 to 10,000 cubic yards. From these 
recipe, which recipe lias been used as stock 
padding by agricultural papers for years. 
Every time I saw it I resolved to try it. 
tanks the water is conducted by means and accordingly did so this last Fall; made 
of underground conduits (sewer tile) 
to the head ditches, from which it is 
be graded according to the system of 
irrigation to be installed; this, in a 
it carefully according to directions, and 
applied it hot. Result: N. G. It looked 
, . . , well until it had a dash of rain on it, or 
put directly upon the land, one man vcry damp woa ther. At the present time, 
handling from 200 to 400 gallons per where well exposed to the elements, the 
minute. The air is warm, the water white coat is clean gone, 
always warm and no great discomfort Ans. —Our authority for printing the 
is experienced in connection with the whitewash recipe is contained in the 
operation. The land must, of course, following letter: 
I enclose herewith the whitewash recipe 
used by the Lighthouse Board of the De- 
. , , . , . , , partment of Commerce and Labor. The 
measure, is determined by the kind of direc tions are <o boil it as the supposition 
crops to be grown. A man in an arid is that it sticks better after boiling, it 
climate, with abundance of water and would probably be too expensive a wash 
adequate means of applying it, can grow f<n !1 nian use where lie is in the busi- 
_ / ,, . ’ . . noss for a living. Slake half a bushel of 
crops more successfully without rain uns]akod 1Ime with boiling water , keeping 
at all than with it, as far as the supply it covered during the process. Strain it 
of moisture to the soil is concerned, and add a P°ek of salt, dissolved in warm 
as heavy rains may come at times when water; t,iree pounds of ground rice put in 
•i • i j boiling water, and boiled to a thin paste: 
soil is already supplied by irrigation, half a pound of pmvdorod Spanish whitl 
and thus be injurious rather than ben- ing, and a pound of clear glue, dissolved 
eficial. Irrigation is the great problem in warm water. Mix these well together, 
and solution of the arid and semi-arid anfl lct t,)e nature stand for several days. 
sections of the United States, and is TT™* ‘Y Y-!* ° r 
. , / portable furnace, and when used put it on 
being practiced with much success in as hot as possible, with painters’ or white- 
many sections of the humid climate, wash brushes. 
During the last part of the Summer 
of 1908 the writer traveled through 
the row of States bordering on the 
Great Lakes and noticed many fields 
w. D. BIGELOW. 
Acting Chief, Bureau of Chemistry. 
Fertilizer for Corn. 
R. B., Glasuboro , A'. ./.— I have seven 
, , i ... , . acres of two-yoa:-old Timothy sod broad- 
of potatoes and other crops that could cast wlth ffianuro last Fall> and tWg Win . 
have been irrigated with very little ex- ter, as I made it, also four acres of 
pense from an adjoining creek or Timothy sod plowed last Summer and 
river, the results from which would io Crimson clover, also four acres 
i ,i , - , , , in potatoes last season sown to Crimson 
have more than doubled the rather ... ^ . ' ' 
rioter to be plowed under this Spring for 
light yield as the consequence of the corn. Do you think it would pay to use 
continued drought of the Summer and 1,300 pounds of acid phosphate and no 
Autumn of 1908. Some of our north- poun(ls of muriate of potash to the acre 
ern experiment stations have done vol- !’! oa(kast af,<>1 pI<1 " ias? Jlle soil is a 
, , .... kmd of clay, gravel and loam, 
unteer work along irrigation in a hu¬ 
mid climate. 
Falftirrias, Texas. 
w. G. Y. 
Ans. —We think this a good plan to 
use the acid phosphate and potash in 
addition to the stable manure. We be¬ 
lieve it will pay. 
OATS AND BRAN FOR HORSES. 
I have five horses on my farm. Three 
work all the time on the farm. The fourth German Ice Making. —Consul-General 
works and drives, the fifth does nothing Guenther, of Frankfort, reports the follow- 
but driving. I raise no kind of grain to ing method of making ice in Germany: 
feed but corn. Would it pay to buy some “A large wooden framework of two stories, 
oats or bran at the present price to feed each 10 feet high, is put up. Each story 
with tlie whole corn on the cob to some of has a cover of 18 parallel beams. Through 
the different horses? r. r. the center a pipe incased to prevent freez- 
Glassboro, N. J. ing runs up to the upper cover. This pipe 
At the present price of grain c ° nneated with tlla water supply. At 
we are satisfied that it pays us to buy disk so that u is dl8t ributed evenly in the 
oats and bran to feed with the corn, form of drizzling rain over the beams of 
The price of oats is high, and it might t,ie covor of both stories. The water drops 
not pay to buy this grain for working tini ' all - v from the beams and is changed 
, t~> , . . , . , nito icicles by the cold Winter temperature, 
horses. For drivers, a part of the feed These icicles grow until they reach from 
in whole oats gives our horses extra the top beams to the beams below and 
life. While experiments have shown b na, *y to the ground floor. At a sufficiently 
that work horses fed on ear corn with !° w tpniperatl . ,re 70 °. c “ bic feet of ice cau 
, ... , , , be produced in a single night from such 
hay containing some clover did well, a framework. The icicles assume and keep 
our experience is that wheat bran keeps the form of thick, separate columns, which 
the horse in better condition, especially can broken without difficulty.” 
when Timothy hay or -stalks are fed 
We grind one-third oats with the corn 
and add one-quarter bran to the mix¬ 
ture. For drivers we would use one-third 
by weight of whole oats and the re¬ 
mainder ear corn. 
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FATTENING LAMBS. 
What is tRe best kind of food to fatten 
young lambs, beside the milk from the 
mother? F n B 
Aniesbury, Mass. 
At the start, it will usually pay to 
use a little brown sugar on the other 
feed. Sometimes it will pay to continue 
it. There is no better feed than a 
ration made of 100 pounds cracked 
corn, 50 pounds wheat bran and 25 
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coarse meal preferred, it is not so- 
isticky, and the lambs like to chew it, 
as they do the cracked corn. Usually 
dealers do not keep the coarse meal, 
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