1911 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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COMBINATION HENHOUSE. 
I am interested in the poultry plant 
described on page 1106 by R. Thomas, of 
New Jersey. The cut shows only the yard, 
which I understand easily enough, but it 
describes three poultry houses each 4x4 
feet for roosting, laying and feeding. Are 
these houses joined together or separate? 
The article says the sections (of yards I 
suppose) could be placed end to end, but 
that each house should have one or more 
sections between them. How could they if 
the sections are end to end? I would like 
to have you explain how the houses are 
arranged and any other particulars that 
are not apparent in the article in ques¬ 
tion. T. A. H. 
Fergus Falls, Minn. 
In the diagram, A show run 4x16; 
B roosting houses, 4x4 ; C laying houses. 
Fertilizing Value of Flat Turnips. 
We sowed our first Cow-horn turnips this 
year in our early sweet corn; they were 
extra nice. We had five acres of Purple- 
tops, but the season was against them. 
There are about 300 bushels on the ground 
to the a'cre that are too small for sale. Ho 
you think they will do the land as much 
good as the Cow-horn? It makes me sick 
to read about high cost of living; the 
prices to farmers around Syracuse are not 
higher than they have been in 10 or 12 
years, except meat, but you can hive no 
one to work except Italians, and we have 
to draw them from the city. e. s. 
New York, 
The Cow-horn turnips are superior be¬ 
cause they make a long tap root and work 
the soil deeply. The flat turnips add con¬ 
siderable humus to the soil and help it. 
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4x4 ; D dry mash house, 4x4. Cut holes 
to admit fowls at X in each house. 
Each vertical line on the plan is the 
end of each run or house and each 
house or run can be moved as if the 
plan was a line of store boxes; they are 
not fastened in any way. The reason 
the houses are 4x4 is that they can be 
moved by one man or boy, or even a 
woman, and being built of one-inch 
boards would be too heavy if made 
larger. Also the beginner can start 
with 16 hens, one run, one roosting 
house and one laying house, and increase 
as he wishes. The outside shape and 
size of all houses are the same. E 
shows nests, F dry mash. Make hole, 
X, in diagram large enough to admit 
light, but not large enough to admit 
rain on the mash. r. thomas. 
New Jersey. 
KILLING OUT HORSERADISH. 
On page 1160 G. W. B., DeRuyter, 
N. Y., asks what will kill horseradish. 
I have a small field on my farm that 
had horseradish in it. I tried to ex¬ 
terminate it, but failed; tried to dig it 
out, but that only seemed to subdue it. 
Then I tried salt on the crown as recom¬ 
mended by T. M. White, and that did 
not kill it; then I used hot brine, which 
failed to kill it. Finally I bought a 
small flock of sheep. We pastured this 
field with the sheep because it was near 
the house and we could protect the 
sheep from dogs. I was surprised to 
see the sheep eat the horseradish; they 
kept it nipped off close to the ground. 
The next season we pastured the sheep 
in the same field, not knowing then the 
sheep would destroy horseradish, but 
they did; they kept it nipped off close 
to the ground. The second year the 
result was they killed every root of 
horseradish. j. f. e. 
Minaville, N. Y. • 
R. N.-Y.—Close pasturing with sheep 
will kill off many plants, including crab 
grass. 
Finish for Oak Floor. 
C. 8. B., Clifton Springs, N. Y .—Would 
you give me the best method and proper 
material used in filling and finishing new 
floors in natural wood, especially oak, both 
in preparing and varnishing and also in 
polishing? 
Ans. —Fill with a paste filler, allow 
same to stand one-half hour, or long 
enough to dry, then rub off with excel¬ 
sior or burlap. Be sure to rub off across 
the grain, so as not to pull the filler out 
of the pores of the wood. Let floor 
stand for 2.4 hours, putty holes and then 
apply a thin coat of white shellac. When 
hard face off with No. o sandpaper. Next 
'apply a coat of floor wax, let same stand 
until dry, and then polish with a twenty- 
live pound weighted floor brush. If high 
polish is desired put on second coat of 
wax, and after polishing with brush fin¬ 
ish by polishing with flannel or tapestry 
carpet placed under the brush. Paste 
tiller or floor wax can be obtained from 
any paint manufacturer or dealer. If 
a stain is desired color the filler to the 
required shade before applying. h. h. 
ROOST 
ROOST 
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COMBINATION HENHOUSE. Fig. 26. 
The chemists tell us that turnips contain 
but little actual plant food, but they show 
themselves in the following crops. 
Potash for Fruit. 
Some time ago I complained about my 
Campbell’s Early grapes. After that I dug 
out the worst and applied a heavy dress¬ 
ing of muriate of potash, and in spite of 
the fact that they suffered severely from 
late frosts, they made a great gain in 
wood growth over the previous season. All 
kinds of fruit (barring grapes) did well 
where the trees had proper care, and it 
seems to me from what I have learned 
the past two seasons, that plenty of potash 
is a very necessary adjunct. l. f. 
It depends much upon the soil. The 
lighter soils lack potash and also some 
heavier soils which have been cropped a 
long time. It is true that potash acts as a 
form of tonic or medicine for many plants, 
particularly trees, and such crops as po¬ 
tatoes or sugar beets. 
Sprouted Oats.— Little chickens like 
sprouted oats so much that if they have 
plenty of other feed before them, they will, 
upon the approach of any one, come out 
of the brooder in the dusk of evening and 
fill in on sprouted oats till their little 
crops are as hard as stone, and they cer¬ 
tainly grow, but there are difficulties in 
the work, as good quality oats are hard 
to get. and in cold weather it can’t be done. 
Milford, Conn. s. k. 
Sumach. —To exterminate sumach the 
sprouts must be cut every Fall. I find 
the best time is from August 15 to time of 
hard frosts. Last year I had some spare 
time the first of July, so cut some sprouts, 
but on that piece there are two sprouts 
where I cut one, about one foot high, ready 
to make a good growth next season. Had 
I waited till Fall the result would have 
been much better I think. Last Fall I 
went over 30 acres with corn knife. 
Where it was the fifth year I have been 
over the ground the sprouts were scatter¬ 
ing and small, but the sprouts on ground 
cut over last year for the first time were 
from three to six feet high, so it was 
about like cutting corn. I have had more 
trouble with sumach on new land than 
with any other shrub. Had I taken it in 
time before it got such a start I could 
have kept it down with much less work. 
Tioga Co., N. Y. m. d. c. 
It. N.-Y.—We have often explained the 
theory of this late cutting. The bushes 
grow until late Summer. Then the roots 
are exhausted, growth stops, and the roots 
lay in material for next season’s growth. 
If they are cut in August the roots start 
in to make a feeble growth, and cannot at 
the same time fit themselves for another 
season. 
Arch for Boiling Sat.— I would like in¬ 
formation regarding how to build an arch 
for boiling maple sap. Last year I 
purchased a complete boiling outfit, which 
proved a bad failure. This failure I 
think was due to the arch having sloping 
sides, the grate width being much less 
than the pan. Although we had good dry 
sound wood and slack coal and experienced 
firemen we could not evaporate more than 
about half as much water as claimed for 
it. With a brick furnace with the same 
pan surface we could nearly double the 
quantity. I have been told that an evapo¬ 
rator will not evaporate as fast as a plain 
pan. Is there any truth in this statement? 
The best arch I ever used was made of 
brick, and was two feet deep back of the 
grates. No fire blazed out of the top of 
the chimney, while the iron arch fire 
blazed out much of the time. We tried 
various ways of checking the draft, with 
the effect of checking the boiling. I pro¬ 
pose to build a new arch, and I want a 
good one. I have 400 good trees. Please 
give dimensions of pan. h. s. 
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How to Save Half on 
Your Tire Cost 
Here are tires which, until lately, cost 20% more than the ordinary. 
All because they can t rim-cut, and because they are oversize. Now 
these same tires, which save half on one’s tire bills, cost no extra price. 
We have sold half a million Good¬ 
year No-Rim-Cut tires at 20 per 
cent more than the price of other 
standard tires. Last year our tire 
sales trebled—jumped to $8,500,000. 
All because the tires can’t rim- 
cut, and because Goodyear tires are 
10 per cent oversize. 
Now these same tires—No-Rim- 
Cut tires—tires 10 per cent oversize 
—cost no extra price. Our multi¬ 
plied output has cut the cost of pro¬ 
duction. All motor car owners 
should insist on them now. 
We have run them flat in a hundred tests 
as far as 20 miles. Yet there has never 
been a single instance of rim-cutting. 
The Cause of Rim-Cutting 
The above picture shows how aa ordinary 
tire—a clincher tiro—fits this same standard 
rim. The removable rim flanges must be turned 
to face inward—to grasp hold of the hooks in 
the tire. That is how the tires are held on. 
Note how that thin edge of the rim flange 
digs into the # tire. That is what causes rim-cut- 
ting. That is how tires are wrecked beyond 
repair if you run them flat, even for a few 
hundred feet. 
That rim-cutting ruins more automobile tire* 
than any other single cause. 
How to Avoid It 
The difference is simply this: In the Good¬ 
year No-Rim-Cut tires there are 6iS braided 
piano wires run through the baso on each side. 
That makes the base unstretchable. The tire 
can’t creep on the rim, and nothing can pos¬ 
sibly force it over the rim. 
When these tires are inflated the braided 
wires contract. They are then held to the rim 
by a pressure of 131 pounds to the inch. 
That is why Goodyear No-Rim-Out tires don’t 
need to bo hooked to the rim. The rim (lunges 
can be turned to hook outward, and you can’t 
rim-cut the tire. 
Other makers, to meet our competition, run 
a single wire through the base. Or they use a 
hard rubber base. But neither plan will do. 
The braided wires, which contract under air 
pressure, are absolutely essential to a safo hook¬ 
less tiro. And we control that feuture. 
Goodyear Tires 10% Oversize 
They supply the tire size to support that'Ioad 
t they rarely leave any margin. They cannol 
The 63 Braided Wires 
No Rim-Cutting 
The picture shows how a Goodyear No- 
Rim-Cut tire fits any standard rim for 
quick-detachable tires. Also de¬ 
mountable rims. 
Note that the rim flanges — 
which are removable—are turned 
to hook outward with No-Rim- 
Cut tires. There are no hooks 
on the tire base to hook into this 
flange, as there are on other tires. 
The rounded flange comes 
next to the tire casing, and rim¬ 
cutting is made impossible. Half 
a million of these tires have been 
used. 
Here is another feature which, with the 
.average car, saves 25% on the tire bills. 
The Goodyear—while it fits the rim—gives yon 
10% more tire for your money. That means 
10% more carrying capacity. It means, with 
average conditions, 26% more mileage per tire. 
The reason is this: 
Motor car makers, in adopting tire sizes, fig¬ 
ure on the weight of tho car as they sell it and 
the weight of the passengers at 150 pounds each. 
but they rarely leave any margin.' They cannot 
afford to at the present prices for cars. 
You may udd a top, a glass front, gas lamps, 
gas tank, an extra tire, etc. And passengers 
may over-weigh. With nine cars in ten the ex¬ 
pected load is exceeded. The result is a blow¬ 
out—often while tho tire is new. Overloading, 
with the average car, odds 25% to the tire cost. 
We Save That 25% 
When you specify Goodyear No- 
Itim-Out tires you get 10% oversize 
without extra cost. That prevents 
overloading. It adds, on the average, 
one-fourth to the tire mileage. 
We give yon this extra size without 
extra cost to protect our reputation. 
When tires are wrecked by overload¬ 
ing. one naturally blames the tire 
maker. Wo wish to avoid that blame. 
Thero are many other things you 
gain when you specify Goodyear No- 
Rim-Cut tiros. Tbeyareall told inour 
book. "Hoiv to Select an Automobile 
Tire.” Ask us to send it to you. 
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WE MAKE ALL KINDS OF RUBBER TIRES 
Branches and Agencies in All the Principal Cities 
