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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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KEEP THEM AT HOME! 
The following members of the New York 
Senate voted against Governor Hughes in 
his efforts to remove Hie Superintendent 
of Insurance. Some of them have done so 
twice—others are backsliders. All have 
proved unworthy In a fair test. All are in 
districts where the votes of farmers can 
defeat them. It should be the duty of 
every farmer to blacklist them and keep 
them away from Albany. Vote them out! 
JOTITAM P. ALLDS.Norwich. N. Y. 
S PERCY HOOKER.I.eRoy, N. Y. 
JOHN RAINES .Canandaigua, N. Y. 
SANEORI) W. SMITH.Chatham, N. Y. 
HORACE WHITE .Syracuse, N. Y. 
BENI M. WILCOX.Auburn, N. Y. 
JOSEPH ACKROYD .Utica, N. Y. 
FRANK M BOYCE... East Sehodack, N. Y. 
FRANCIS H. GATES. .. Chittenango, N. Y. 
WM. W. WEMI'LE.Schenectady, N. Y. 
WM T. O’NEIL.St. Regis Falls, N. Y. 
OWEN CASSIDY .Watkins, N. Y. 
THE VALUE OF THE WEEDER. 
I have just been reading the article 
by F. D. Squiers on page 487. I notice 
that he says, “For everything but quack, 
if I could have but one tool in a corn¬ 
field, I would say, ‘Give me a weeder.’ ” 
For our soil, if we had to do without 
any one tool in our cornfield, I should 
say, “Let it be the weeder.” Pos¬ 
sibly Mr. Squiers works a different 
type of land from what we have. Some 
of our land is of such a nature that it 
forms clods of such a texture that it 
would take a stone-hammer and point 
in the hands of a skillful stonecutter to 
make any visible impression on them. 
On such clods the weeder will hardly 
make a scratch big enough for an ant 
to walk down. A smoothing harrow is 
the better implement here. The weeder 
is valuable for light scratching work, 
but is practically worthless in hard or 
heavily-crusted ground. In this neigh¬ 
borhood it is often fastened to a roller, 
so that a man and a team can perform 
two operations at once. I believe that 
Mr. Squiers minimizes too much the 
damage a weeder does in a cornfield. 
My observation has shown me that if 
a weeder tooth hits or even comes near 
a stalk of corn, it is just as hard on 
that stalk of corn as it is on any weed 
in the field, and also that it does hit 
many stalks of corn. It may be that it 
does not make any great difference in 
the stand, but if we would raise a full 
crop of corn we must have a full stand. 
His directions for its use are admir¬ 
able except that I would quit using it 
much sooner, say about the time the 
corn is two or three inches high. I 
have tried here to point out some of 
the limitations of the weeder. I would 
point out some of the strong points but 
I do not think I could improve on Mr. 
Squiers’ statement. Remember, though, 
the weeder is a valuable tool only in 
loose, mellow soil. C. A. U 
Indiana. __ 
Ram for Water Supply. 
J. G., No Address .—I have a house situ¬ 
ated about 70 feet above nearby water 
which consists of a spring running about 
three gallons a minute. About 10 feet 
from this is a branch which runs in the 
neighborhood of 20 gallons per minute. 
Can a ram be used here successfully? Then 
I have ample roof shed to save rain water 
for cistern, and spring on a neighbor’s farm 
that is nearly three-quarters of a mile off 
and above the house. Which of these 
sources would be the best water supply for 
family use? 
Ans. —It is not possible to answer the 
correspondent’s question specifically for 
the reason that the distance the water has 
to be carried is not stated, neither is the 
amount of water desired at the house 
stated. Speaking generally, a hydraulic 
ram will elevate one-seventh of the sup¬ 
ply volume of water to a height five 
times the fall, or one-fourteenth part 
of the water to a height 10 times the 
fall. If the available fall for working 
the ram is five feet the three-gallon 
spring could not be expected to elevate, 
through 70 feet, more than one-twentieth 
part of the three gallons per minute, 
and if the 20-gallon stream were used, 
with the same amount of fall for driv¬ 
ing head, the amount of water lifted 
per minute could not exceed one gallon. 
Gen. Haupt found that a small ram, 
working under a head of 8.8 feet 
through a drive pipe of 1.5 inches 15 
feet long and discharging water through 
a three-fourth inch pipe 200 feet long to 
a height of 63.3 feet, was able to de¬ 
liver 48 cubic inches per minute, and 
the water which worked the ram was 
3.31 gallons per minute. Three-quarters 
of a mile is a long distance to carry 
water in a small pipe, but if the head is 
sufficient more water would be obtained 
from such a source, but at a greater 
cost of installation. Tf the distance 
which the ram must drive the water is 
long the amount of water which can be 
forced through the pipe will be dimin¬ 
ished in proportion to the length of the 
discharge pipe. f. h. king. 
Apples for Southern Michigan. 
IT. T., St. Joseph, Mich .—I expect to set an 
orchard of about 200 apple trees for strictly 
commercial purposes, and will greatly 
appreciate your opinion on the most profit¬ 
able varieties, which I am advised should 
not exceed four or five in number. I 
should also be glad to have your opinion 
on the Y T ellow Transparent as a variety 
suitable for planting with a view to graft¬ 
ing. Another matter regarding varieties, 
or rather one variety, Canada Red, has 
given me some trouble. The United States 
Government bulletin does not indicate that 
variety as a profitable one for this locality, 
southern Michigan, but Trof. Bailey in “The 
Principles of Fruit Growing’’ mentions it 
as one that should have been set in place 
of Baldwins, and I know of some orchard- 
ists in this vicinity who consider the Can¬ 
ada Red their most valuable variety. Is 
that variety largely set now in New York? 
Ans. —Yellow Transparent is a very 
slow grower, and I would not choose it 
to plant as a stock upon which to graft 
other varieties. It would be very good 
as a filler between late bearing kinds. 
Northern Spy, Ben Davis or some other 
strong grower would be much better for 
grafting on. There is considerable con¬ 
fusion regarding the Red Canada apple. 
The variety that is properly entitled to 
the name is one of excellent quality, but 
the tree is lacking in vigor and the 
fruit is inclined to scab, which points 
are against it. It does well in some 
places, but is by no means dependable 
as a market variety. There is another 
variety that is often called Red Canada, 
but more often Steele’s Red, that is a 
good grower and bearer, and the fruit 
looks well, but is not of high quality, 
being coarse in flesh and not very agree¬ 
able in flavor. It is grown in Michi¬ 
gan, New York and Canada for market 
and is thought well of for market. I 
would prefer Sutton to this apple, how¬ 
ever, for any purpose, and I like it bet¬ 
ter than Baldwin for that northern 
region or anywhere that the latter is 
profitably grown. It might be well to 
plant some of all three of these vari¬ 
eties, for one might do better than an¬ 
other in certain years. I would be 
guided largely by the experience of 
good fruit growers in that section as 
to what I would plant. 
H. E. VAN DEMAN. 
VETCH AND QUACK GRASS. 
Farmers should not try to smother quack 
grass, or, for that matter, any other weed 
with a crop, because nine times out of 10 
it will be a failure. We must not overlook 
the point that a weed will only overrun a 
soil if the conditions are favorable for its 
propagation. If the conditions are not 
equal, or we should rather say more favor¬ 
able, for the crop intended to smother the 
weed, the crop will be under a disadvantage 
from the very start. The soil which O. C. 
farms is an ideal soil for the multiplication 
of all kinds of weeds, but will only be 
favorable for a strong growth of the Spring 
vetch, if it is well manured, if the climate 
is moist, or if the soil has a high ground 
water level. I have grown vetches for 20 
years, but have never seen them to smother 
any kind of weed, even where the conditions 
were ideal for the vetch. Spring vetches 
are seldom grown by themselves, but gen¬ 
erally as a mixed crop, in combination with 
Canada peas, oats, barley or Spring rye. I 
would not advise O. C. to try the experi¬ 
ment. If the quack gnfss has taken such 
a hold on the soil that it cannot be exter¬ 
minated with hoed crops, the soil should be 
fallowed. H. winkelman. 
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