1908. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
80S 
RACK FOR CURING COARSE HAY. 
Many of our readers have planted 
cow peas or Soy beans as a green manur¬ 
ing crop. They did not expect to use the 
growth for forage, yet when they saw 
the extent of it, they tried to make the 
material into hay. In many cases this 
proved a failure, as the pea vines 
moulded or rotted, so that the fodder 
was very largely spoiled; this was be¬ 
cause these farmers did not understand 
the art of curing the pea vines. They 
are ready to cut in the North during 
usually the hardest season for curing 
hay. They are full of sap, and must 
be handled in a different manner from 
most of other forage plants. A good 
many methods have been given for cur¬ 
ing the vines. The best practice is found 
at the South, where the pea vines form 
a large part of the forage. Fig. 37S 
shows a device or rack used at the 
Tennessee Experiment Station for cur¬ 
ing Alfalfa or cow-pea hay. This rack 
consists of two triangular frames which 
hook or lock together. In the stack at 
the left is a load of nearly 2000 pounds 
of green Alfalfa hay. The rack on the 
inside of the pile permits the air to pass 
under and up through the stack, thus 
giving the material a good chance to dry 
out. Farmers in the North who want 
to try to cure cow-pea vines might well 
use this device. In our own experience 
we have seldom found it advisable to 
pense in building it. I would advise 
placing the hoops not more than four 
feet apart at the bottom and gradually 
increasing the distance to about six feet 
apart at the top. Of course a silo must 
have a solid foundation which cannot 
oc moved by freezing. The inside of 
the silo must be finished perfectly 
smooth, or the silage cannot be properly 
packed so as to settle evenly and solidly. 
If there is any danger of air getting 
in around the door or where the 4x4s 
meet the wall it can be prevented by 
tacking two thicknesses of tarred paper 
over the whole door so it laps over on 
the wall a few inches. When this is 
done just before filling the silo the sil¬ 
age presses the paper against the door, 
making it perfectly airtight. 
_C. S. GREENE. 
POWER FOR IRRIGATING PUMP. 
On page 749 L. L. L., Brooklyn, N. Y., 
makes inquiry about a windmill or 
Ericsson hot-air engine for pumping 
water for domestic and irrigation pur¬ 
poses. After more than 40 years of 
practical experience in that line I would 
say for domestic purposes either is all 
right, but for irrigating neither would 
answer the purpose except for a very 
small plot of ground. In the hot dry 
weather of Summer when water is 
needed most, as a general thing the 
windmill goes on strike for want of 
wind. The hot-air engine will run at all 
RACK FOR CURING COW PEAS AND ALFALFA. Fig. 37S. 
make cow-pea vines into hay. We be¬ 
lieve that in most northern situations it 
is better either to plow them under as 
green manure or cut them for green 
forage. _ 
BUILDING A STONE SILO. 
I am thinking of building a stone silo. Sup¬ 
pose I made the walls 15 inches thick and 
point them inside and out with mortar, 
and make a thin mixture of sand and ce¬ 
ment, say one of the latter and three of 
the former, to pour in the inside of the 
wall as it went up, say every foot or so, 
so that it would run down to make a solid 
wall; have 4x4 door frame to run from bot¬ 
tom to top, with 4x4 pieces across for the 
doors to come against, and would build 
in, say about the middle of the wall, % 
round iron hoops every five or six feet in 
height. Do you think that would make 
a good silo? I want it 10 feet inside and 
30 feet high. How many tons would such 
a silo hold, and how many cows would it 
keep say, six months? s. H. 
Gardenville, Pa. 
A silo such as you describe would 
hold about 60 tons of silage, or enough 
for 20 average cows for five and a 
half to six months. In building a silo 
of any material there is one principle 
which must be kept in mind, and that 
is the walls must be airtight or the 
silage will spoil. If you can build such 
a reinforced wall as you describe, and 
can make it airtight, there is no reason 
why it should not be satisfactory, al¬ 
though I have found masonry of this 
character much more expensive than 
lumber or even cement for building 
purposes. A stone silo would, no doubt, 
be more durable, but it would have to 
last a long time to pay for the ex¬ 
times, and is easy to manage, but the 
amount of water it pumps is entirely too 
small for irrigating. A good gasoline 
engine would answer the purpose better; 
it is cheaper and can be run with little 
expense, but it would not answer on a 
dug well; it would pump it dry in a very 
short time. The bored artesian wells arc 
expensive and must be sunk deep to give 
a sufficient supply of water. The U. S. 
Geological Survey consider the tile wells 
the simplest, cheapest and best they 
know of for domestic or irrigating pur¬ 
poses. The well produces from 3,000 
to 20,000 gallons of water per hour, ac¬ 
cording to depth and location, and needs 
no repairs. As L. L. L.’s well is 40 feet 
deep the cylinder of pump must be 
placed in the well, or no motive power 
can raise water from it, and the well 
being in the cellar the windmill is out of 
the question. j. E. 
Melville, N. Y. _ 
Peaches With Split Pits. 
Will you ask some of your peach special¬ 
ists what is the cause of split pits? I have 
a good many of them this year, mostly in 
the larger specimens in the Stevens -Rare¬ 
ripe and Smock, which spoils some of our 
best peaches for finest grade, l. c. m. 
I have made no special study of the split¬ 
ting of peach pits. From what I have spen 
of this trouble, however, I believe it to be 
entirely a physiological trouble and due 
first to an inherent tendency of certain 
varieties to the trouble and second to cer¬ 
tain weather conditions that develop the 
trouble more some seasons than others. A 
year that produces large fruit of excellent 
quality i should expect to develop the trou¬ 
ble more than one in which the fruit was 
smaller and less succulent. This year seems 
to have been a good year for split peaches. 
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