1911. 
Quality in Land Rollers. 
A. II., Flushing, N. Y .—I would like to 
learn from some experienced student of agri¬ 
culture (not a manufacturer) having partic¬ 
ular knowledge of the subject, what are the 
chief considerations that govern in the ma- 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
to 2.67 inches to 3.34 inches of rainfall 
on one acre, where the values of the 
inch are those stated. If three-eighths 
of a miner's inch flowing continuously 
15 days gives to one acre the equiva- 
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terial and construction of a land roller for lent of 2.67 to 3.34 inches of rainfall, 
best results in use and lasting quality. 
Ans. —There are two kinds of land 
rollers on the market to-day and the 
inquirer should select the kind suited to 
his soil and needs. The kind in most 
common use is a plain two or three sec¬ 
tion roller, the sections consisting of 
cast drum heads covered with a sheet 
steel drum riveted to the drum heads, 
and the two or three sections compos- 
to apply the same amount to the acre 
in three days, continuous flow, would 
require five times three-eighths inch 
of water, or one and seven-eighths. 
F. H. KING. 
The Corn Harvester Necessary. 
In regard to the work of the corn 
harvester, I hardly see how the farmers 
in this section could get along without 
them. With ground in reasonably good 
Pull Your f Stumps 30 Days 
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ing the roller are hung on a large steel £ j lape t h ey w jh cut c]oser on the aver age 
shaft running the full length of the than the average man will, also cut the 
roller. Such rollers have a smooth face, grass a „d weeds in row, which makes 
turn easily and give good satisfaction. g00 ci silage. The binding of the corn 
Other styles of rollers in less common ma kes it handle nearly 50 per cent, easier 
use are the various pulverizing rollers, and faster, which means a great deal in 
Some have the face of the roller cov- the rush of work and shortage of help, 
ered with iron rods or pipes riveted on i t would be impossible to get help to 
the drum heads and spaced about two cut the corn by hand, as filling silos 
inches apart instead of the sheet steel and apple picking come at about the 
of the roller described above. Another 
kind is made up of narrow cast sections 
about six inches wide and with scalloped 
faces. The pulverizing roller is espe¬ 
cially recommended for the preparation 
of wheat land, but they are tip-top on 
corn ground also. Land rollers should 
be about two feet in diameter and con¬ 
sist of two or more sections for easy 
same time. A good working gang for 
silo work is one man and three horses on 
harvester, three drivers and teams to 
draw, one man to feed cutter, and one 
or two men in silo, two men in lot to 
pitch on. I filled for myself and neigh¬ 
bors about 900 tons this past Fall and 
there were three or four others who did 
as much or more, while a good many 
400ft 
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turning, and for two horses may be six have their own rigs and only fill two 
feet long. Land rollers being made of or three silos. Our best day’s work 
steel and iron and provided with oiling 
devices, if properly housed when not in 
use, should last as long or longer than 
a disk harrow. Not many rollers are 
used in this section, the plank drag 
largely taking the place of the roller, 
but for late-plowed sod the heavy roller 
seems almost indispensable and on such 
fields their use should prove quite profit¬ 
able. For the heavier soils the pulver¬ 
izing roller is possibly the proper tool 
to use, as it packs the soil without pack¬ 
ing down all the surface, but for lighter 
soils, and where a fine, smooth surface 
is needed, and for use in general, the 
smooth surfaced roller is the proper 
tool. W. E. DUCKWALL. 
Ohio. 
Flow of Irrigation. 
D., Oregon .—Given four second feet of 
water for three days, 72 hours, irrigates 00 
acres of land. How many inches of water 
that we kept track of was 42 loads in 
nine hours of l'/i to two tons each, cut 
to half-inch, elevated 35 feet with blower, 
and run by a six horse-power engine. 
Vermont. g. m. h. 
Green Film in Spring 
F. E. G., Worcester, Mass .—I have a nice 
boiling spring about 30 feet from my house. 
In former years there lias been a barrel 
set in the ground, but this barrel has given 
me considerable trouble, so last Spring I 
dug around the barrel, taking it out and 
cleaning everything away until I got a 
good gravel bottom. Then I took a 24- 
inch by 3-foot glazed cement pipe and put 
it in where the barrel was. It works fine, 
but it is constantly filling up with a green¬ 
ish film, such as is found on the edge of 
small ponds. Is there anything I can do to 
get rid of this film? It is very annoying. 
Ans. —It might be worth while to try 
inserting a galvanized iron cylinder 
made fairly to fit closely the inside of 
the tile, reaching above the water,.form- 
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would it require per acre continuous flow in S ^ fapP e d seams without soldering, 
for 15 days to furnish the four second the manner of. stovepipes. It is 
feet for the three days, giving a period of barely possible that the vegetable growth 
may not attach itself to the metal sur¬ 
face. F. H. KING. 
12 days between irrigations? Oregon has 
taken control of the waters of the State 
and in adjudicating the water rights it has 
asked us, the original appropriators, how 
much water we require. A corporation has 
contested our claims and their expert claims 
that three-eighths of an inch of water, con¬ 
tinuous flow, is the solution to the above 
problem. We are sceptical. 
Ans. —Four second feet of water for 
72 hours, applied to 60 acres of land 
would cover it to a depth of 4.76 inches, 
and is equal to 1,036,800 cubic feet. We 
do not know the value of a legal 
inch of water for Oregon. For Cali¬ 
fornia one inch of water is defined as 
equal to one-fiftieth of a second foot. 
Court decision sets it at one-fortieth of 
a second foot for Arizona. Colorado 
specifies 38.4 miner’s inches in one sec¬ 
ond foot. It the inch is taken at one- 
fortieth of a second foot it would re¬ 
quire four times 40, or 160 inches, flow¬ 
ing continuously three days, or 72 hours, 
to equal four second feet continuous 
flow for 72 hours. Three-eighths of a 
miner’s inch flowing continuously 15 
days is only 9,720 cubic feet, or .044 
inch of rainfall on 60 acres, at the 
California value, and but 12,150 cubic 
feet or .055 inch of rainfall on 60 acres 
at the Arizona value. If applied to one 
acre instead of to 60 acres the depth of 
water, expressed as rainfall, would be 
60 times the values just given, or 2.67 
inches, where the California inch is the 
standard, and 3.34 inches if the Arizona 
value of the inch is taken. In other 
A’ords, three-eighths of a miner’s inch 
continuous flow for 15 days is equivalent 
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