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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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THE KING ROAD DRAG. 
We have been asked to reprint a pic¬ 
ture of the “King drag” or road scrap¬ 
er. The cut is taken from a recent 
drawing in “The Dakota Farmer,” and 
shows how the drag works. It is made 
of heavy plank or a split log. As 
shown in the picture these are attached 
three feet apart and dragged diagonally 
along the road. In this way they do 
the good work of a road scraper with¬ 
out its faults. They do not plow, as 
the road machine often does, but scrape 
and level. Roads are ruined by leaving 
ruts and rough places for the water to 
stand. Tf these are levelled this water 
drains oft" and the road dries. The 
“King drag” has proved very useful in 
many sections where farmers use it 
regularly to keep the surface of the 
road smooth._ 
SHEEP ON SHARES. 
I would like to have some iuformation 
as to wool from "Jo sheep. I sold my farm 
last Fall. The purchaser wants a one-half 
Interest In my sheep, so I sold him one- 
half interest for one-half increase, and I 
was to feed and care for them while I 
carry said farm this Summer. I fed *50 
bushels oats and corn ground. Is it right 
for me to give half of wool, or is it mine? 
Princess Anne, Md. r. C. M. 
If I understand your question cor¬ 
rectly, you sold your farm last Fall, but 
the produce on it was yours, which you 
fed to the sheep, a half interest in 
which you sold the purchaser for a 
half interest in the increase, after the 
farm becomes his, and the sheep are 
fed on his stuff. You carry on the 
farm for him this Summer as his em¬ 
ployee. If this is correct, then this clip 
of wool should be yours, for it was 
made from your stuff, the present owner 
of the farm having returned you noth¬ 
ing as yet as an equivalent. On the 
other hand, if the man who bought the 
farm got the produce on it with it, 
the half the wool should be his, un¬ 
less you purchased, and paid for the 
oats and corn fed. 
EDWARD VAN ALSTYNE. 
SHUN THE ARTICHOKE CROP. 
I planted last Spring two bushels of arti¬ 
chokes, as recommended by the United 
States Department of Agriculture, and they 
grew about as large as eggs. Can you tell 
me if it is caused by rite dry season or is 
it caused by poor seed V I ordered Jerusa¬ 
lem artichoke roots for seed. We cared for 
them the same as potatoes. We did not 
have a day's rain the whole growing 
season. a. j. t. 
Elmira. X. Y. 
Thirty-three years ago the writer 
had a bad turn with artichoke fever, a 
disease that cures itself and runs its 
course long before the crop runs out. 
I do not know how long A. J. T. has 
been tickling the earth for a livelihood, 
but not too long yet to lay by a store 
of experience. His crop has doubtless 
to some extent fallen short of his ex¬ 
pectations on account of dry weather, 
not on account of poor seed. In the 
generation that has passed by since I 
planted my first and last crop. I have 
noted carefully comments or articles in 
the press regarding the crop, and have 
never known of any complaint regard¬ 
ing the quality of seed. The seed used 
in planting the above-mentioned crop 
came. I think, from one of the North¬ 
west States, where the smallest yield 
mentioned was 300 bushels per acre, 
and from that up to 2,500 hushe’s. They 
were boomed as a crop for hogs, and as 
I was particularly interested in hogs, 
a success with artichokes meant healthy 
hogs and dollars. They were shipped 
in burlap sacks, and I think had just 
been dug before sacking; at any rate, 
they heated before they could be 
planted. Hence I concluded not to dig 
a crop until wanted for seed. They 
will keep in the ground without loss 
or damage. This is what I found out 
about the crop Tlngy grew remarkably 
well the first year, and yielded as near 
as I could tell at the rate of 300 bush¬ 
els. per acre, on land that would at that 
time produce 50 bushels of corn pep 
acre. The tubers almost filled the space 
between the rows planted as potatoes. 
There was much pleasure in seeing this 
supposed minimum yield. The land is 
mainly clay. The hogs needed them 
most when Winter was on, but then 
they were locked so tightly in the 
ground that only dynamite would raise 
them—or else the abundance of mud 
made the hogs weary to root for them. 
If you want the life taken out of land, 
grow a crop of artichokes, and then 
winter the brood sows and their fol¬ 
lowing on the land. 
On this first crop a lot of hogs ran 
most of the Winter. Next Spring there 
was an abundance of tubers in the soil, 
but the ground was so solid the hogs 
would not root for them, so the plow 
must be used to secure their life-giving 
succulence for the hogs. The story is 
that they will go on reproducing them¬ 
selves for years. All the farmer has 
to do is to define the rows with a plow 
and give cultivation. This is easier 
written about than done. Every eye 
left by the hogs will sprout sure. As 
I understand it, they are a warm 
weather plant, hence in the cooler cli¬ 
mates are slow to start in the Spring. 
Consequently the weeds and grasses 
come first. Then the only way to get 
clean cultivation is to hoe out the rows. 
It will require a more attractive crop 
than artichokes after one year’s expe¬ 
rience to cause the farmer to take to 
the hoe handle kindly. Result, the arti¬ 
choke field grows up to artichokes, and 
all kinds of weeds, a very light crop 
of the former, and the latter a maxi¬ 
mum crop. The third year it will be 
hard to tell what is intended, artichokes 
or weeds. 
1 f it is desired to leave the children 
an inheritance, allow a few tubers to 
find place in a fence line, and the chil¬ 
dren will be amazed at the thrift and 
forehandedness of their ancestors when 
they cut them off each year when clean¬ 
ing the weeds out of the fence row. 
A few years ago I saw a very thrifty 
patch; the tops must have been near 
eight feet high. The owner had 
a lot of steers on short pasture. As 
he had doubtless read that the tops 
made good forage, a load was hauled 
and scattered in the pasture field. I do 
not suppose the steers ever consumed 
a stalk. The one season’s trial put that 
grower out of business. It was a fine 
crop, but utterly disappointing in re¬ 
sults. The man who has seed to sell 
tells a big story, but does not practice 
the Golden Rule. 
ROSS CO., O. JOHN M. JAMISON. 
Quick Churning. —Believing that a 
method of obtaining certain results with 
the least amount of physical exertion 
should be passed on to our fellow work¬ 
ers, I will try to explain an easy meth¬ 
od of obtaining butter from a small 
amount of cream. Of course I assume 
that the cream has been obtained and 
ripened under favorable conditions, and 
raised to the proper temperature. Then 
p’ace in a covered pail or can. and place 
on the extreme back edge of the treadle 
of the sewing machine and while the 
housewife does a little of the verv nec¬ 
essary sewing required for the familv, 
the cream will he rapidly turned into 
blitter without extra labor. Of course 
you will see that this method is only 
desirable with a very small amount of 
cream. M. B. 
Michigan. 
Most Valuable Stock Living Today Raised On 
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Future I Ieutl «r Herd of The Stevens lirothers—Hastings Co., I.iverpool, X. V. 
Tho accompanying photograph shows King Pontiac Champion, as be appeared last July at five 
momhs old. Schumacher Cn If Meal has entered largely Into his daily rations with what success 
may be judged from his weight today at just past eleven months old, which Is U(J0 lbs. His owners 
say that In their judgment he is worth the most money of any Holstein bull of his age living. 
First prize calves at the leading state and County fairs last fall. Including champion bull and 
champion heifer Holstein Friesian at the New York state fair, were raised on Schumacher calf 
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East Hampton, Conn. 
