o 64 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
MAKING A CEMENT PIPE. 
A. T. G., Erin, N. Y .—I would like ad¬ 
vice regarding building a cement pipe to 
conduct water from spring to building, 
there being a fall of at least one foot to 
the rod. The method proposed is to dig 
a ditch with a trough about five inches 
square in bottom; then fill trough with 
cement a few feet at a time, using a rub¬ 
ber hose five or six feet long in center of 
cement to keep hole open, and drawing 
hose forward' as cement hardened and 
work progressed. Will the cement stick to 
hose to bother about drawing forward? 
Ans.—I have had no personal experi¬ 
ence in this kind of work, but have read 
accounts of cement pipes being con¬ 
structed sucessfully along those same 
lines, a rubber hose being used to keep 
the hole open, but if I were to build one 
I would try a piece of galvanized pipe, 
instead of the rubber hose, if I had a 
straight line to work in. I would have 
the hole threaded at one end and a short 
rod about eight inches long screwed in. 
The handle, I will call it, should be 
bent up squarely; then when you wished 
to move it you could take hold of the 
handle, work the pipe back and forth a 
few times, which would loosen it up so 
that it could be drawn along readily and 
would insure a perfect hole through, 
while a rubber hose would have to be 
pulled out regardless of consequences. 
w. A. B. 
CHEMICAL FERTILIZER FOR PASTURE, 
In England they have a popular way of 
testing chemicals for improving a pasture. 
The plan is to divide a field in two parts. 
On one part they use a combination of 
chemicals, while they leave the other part 
alone. They then turn an equal number of 
cows as nearly matched as possible into 
each side of the field. These cows are 
handled and fed grain as nearly alike as 
possible, and a close record is kept of their 
milk. In order to make the experiment fair 
the cows are transferred back and forth 
from one side of the pasture to the other. 
Any gain of milk under this arrangement is 
credited to the chemicals, on the theory 
that they produce more grass and thus 
make more food for the cattle. This seems 
like a fair proposition, and it ought to be 
tried more in this country. Two years ago 
an experiment of this kind was tried at the 
Midland College in England. A field was 
divided in two parts. On one side a mix¬ 
ture of chemicals consisting of 400 pounds 
of acid phosphate, and 150 pounds of sul¬ 
phate of potash was scattered over the 
grass. Nothing was put on the other side 
of the pasture. It was found that the first 
year each fertilized acre gained an increase 
of 84 gallons of milk as a result of this 
fertilizing, and the next year the gain was 
86 gallons. This made a profit over the 
cost of the fertilizer during the two years 
of $14. A similar experiment was started 
last year; 500 pounds of the mixture de¬ 
scribed above was used on an acre. As the 
result of this fertilizing, the total gain for 
12 weeks was about 65 gallons of milk, 
which gave a good profit. The gain is likely 
to continue for two years mox - e. In that 
country phosphoric acid and potash alone 
would probably be sufficient to build up the 
pastures. On most American pastures, how¬ 
ever, the soil is drier, and has not been so 
well kept up. It would be necessary there¬ 
fore in most cases, to add some form of 
nitrogen. A small quantity of nitrate of 
soda added to the phosphate and potash 
would without doubt greatly improve the 
pasture. We would like to see our Ameri¬ 
can experiment stations conduct this kind of 
an experiment in a dozen different parts of 
the dairy section of New York State. 
SELLING THOSE OKLAHOMA PEACHES. 
On page 432 a reader in Oklahoma asked 
for advice in disposing of a crop of canned 
peaches. You might think this would stump 
our people, but nearly a dozen of them 
have come in to help. Here are two sug¬ 
gestions from the Far West: 
Would Sell Good Dried Peaches. 
I am inclosing portion of a label of a 
can of California peaches. The peaches in 
these cans are as large or larger than those 
shown on the label, are very uniform and 
extra flavor for California fruit. We pay 
20 cents apiece for these cans of peaches 
here at retail. I see no reason why grow¬ 
ers should destroy orchards at that price. 
I remember 35 or 40 years -ago in New 
England we used to be able to buy what 
were called evaporated peaches. They were 
ripe (but not soft) peaches, peeled, sliced 
and evaporated. Some of them, of course, 
were treated with sulphur to make them 
white, but even that could not destroy all 
the good taste. A pound would make a 
number of pies that were hard to beat. I 
have not seen for the last 20 years any¬ 
thing in the line of dried or evaporated 
■peaches but the California kind, which are 
merely green peaches halved and the hide 
and wool left on. For my part I would 
rather have no peaches at all than to buy 
them, but could I get Eastern peaches 
evaporated without the use of sulphur and 
retaining the Eastern peach flavor, I should 
keep a supply on hand at all times, and 
if I owned a 20-acre Elberta peach orchard 
in Arkansas or anywhere else east of the 
Roey Mountains, I should put in an evap¬ 
orator, and sell woolless dried peaches 
till the cows came home. Ah ! It makes 
my mouth water as I write. J. n. p. 
Newport, Wash. 
Selling Fancy Stock. 
If W. M. will put up a fancy pack 
he need have no fear of not finding a 
market for his peaches, and as a possible 
solution to his problem I suggest that when 
his orchard begins to bear he thin the fruit 
on his trees, take at least half of the fruit 
set off the trees. This will give him the 
size and uniformity that is essential for a 
fancy pack. When the fruit matures let it 
ripen on the trees until it can be eaten 
out of hand. As it begins to ripen go over 
the orchard each day, picking all well 
ripened fruit and pack it at once in stan¬ 
dard cans such as are used by the canning 
establishments, putting full weight into 
every can. Then label his cans with an 
attractive trade-marked label, something 
like this. “Talihina Farm Elberta Teaches; 
packed direct from the orchard in heavy 
cane sirup; by W. M. This can is guar¬ 
anteed to contain — pounds of fruit.” 
When this crop has been packed, look about 
for a convenient distributing point; and 
make a contract with a reliable commis¬ 
sion house to handle the goods. As soon 
as he has made his selling arrangements 
invest in some printers’ ink in his local 
paper and in a paper at his distributing 
point. As to the price ho should put upon 
his goods, the cost will include growing the 
crop, picking and packing, transportation 
charges, to which must be added his per¬ 
centage of profit. W. M. must remem¬ 
ber that raw fruit cooked or sterilized in 
the can will shrink, and that is why I 
mention the fact that he must put full 
weight in each can when he fills it. Also 
that he must not expect to build up a trade 
in a day; that an honest pack with a trade- 
marked label will in a very few years build 
up a profitable business, and he must also 
expect to have to carry more or less stock 
until he gets a trade established. However, 
I doubt not that he can find reliable com¬ 
mission men in Kansas City. St. Louis, 
Chicago, and in fact in any of the large 
cities, who will buy his goods at a profit¬ 
able price, or make him an advance on 
his consignments, but it matters not how 
he disposes of his goods, he must not be 
afraid to advertise his wares. This applies 
to the whole farming community if they 
want their share of “the consumers’ dollar.” 
Idaho. h. s. h. 
EASTERN SHORE LANDS. 
Mr. Barnhart recently had something to 
say in regard to lands on the Eastern 
Shore of Maryland. He. said that the chief 
defect is the lack of grass. Now the lack 
of grass is not because grass will not 
grow there, but to the general neglect of 
grass. The Maryland farmers are either 
grain farmers in the upper counties or truck 
farmers in the lower section. The grain 
farmers practice a short rotation of crops, 
and their sale crops are wheat and corn; 
their lands are kept up with clover mainly, 
aided by applications of acid phosphate. 
They are not to any great extent stock 
farmers, though some attention is given to 
all classes of live stock. In the grain 
growing sections there are few parts of 
the country where better crops of wheat 
and corn are grown. But that grass will 
grow well here is shown by an example I 
can see from my windows here. This part 
of the shore is largely devoted to truck 
crops, such as early potatoes and sweet 
potatoes, melons, cucumbers, etc., and large 
quantities of New York stable manure have 
been brought here for years past. Right 
across the road from my house is a sandy 
ridge, sandy down several feet before the 
hard clay is reached. This land was for¬ 
merly used as a market garden, and was 
manured and limed, but for years past it 
has lain out, belonging to a real estate 
opex-ator who sells lots for building pur¬ 
poses. This sandy ridge has sodded over 
with Blue grass till there is a sod that 
Kentucky cannot excel. The grass has sim¬ 
ply been allowed to grow uncut, and to¬ 
day it is difficult to walk through the 
mass of last year’s grass. I was familiar 
with this section in my boyhood, and it 
was then thought that grass would not 
grow in this sandy soil. Where the land 
has been manured and used for truck 
crops if it is left lie out it sods over 
soon with Blue grass. In the upper grain¬ 
growing counties where the land is natur¬ 
ally better and more suited to grass, the 
best of gi’ass can be gi-own if a longer ro¬ 
tation was practiced, but whether it would 
be wiser or not I cannot say. Grain grow¬ 
ing with a short rotation has been success¬ 
ful, and the crops have impx-oved year after 
year, and with plenty of legumes in the 
shape of cow peas and Crimson clover we 
do not need grass. Then as to the value 
of land. One would have to go ’way back 
in the back woods to find any ten-dollar 
land on the Eastern Shore. Right around 
Salisbury it is up in the hundreds per 
acre, and four miles out a farm that my 
mother and her sisters sold to their 
brother many years ago for $6 an acre, or 
$2400 for the farm, was sold recently for 
$14,000, and sold to a man who already 
owns land that he would not take $400 an 
acre for, which in my remembrance could 
have been bought for $10 or less. With 
abundant transportation by water and rail 
to the lai-ge cities the day of low land 
prices on the Eastern Shore is past. 
w. F. MASSEY. 
Spray Mixture and Cattle. —Will a 
spray of Bordeaux and arsenate of lead, or 
other sprays with arsenic, be dangerous for 
cattle grazing under ti'ees which have been 
sprayed? The orchard is used as a pasture. 
1 use two pounds of the arsenate for 50 
gallons. p. F. B. 
Northport, L. I. 
We should not hesitate to pastui’e stock 
in such a sprayed orchard, after letting it 
stand two or three days after spraying. 
The gi-ass would not be dangerous if you use 
reasonable care. There ai-e some imports of 
ti'ouble where orchards were spi’ayed when 
the grass was high and where hay was 
made from the grass. In these cases the 
spraying was so heavy that it dripped 
upon the grass and there was no rain to 
wash it off. Hay wetted in this way will 
be more dangerous than grass. 
French Fried Potatoes. —Many of our 
readers have heard of “French fried pota¬ 
toes,” which are tubers cut into oblong 
cubes and fried in fat. The restaurant 
keepers prefer for this purpose what they 
call “soggy” potatoes, that is, those which 
do not crumble up or become mealy in 
cooking. In France these potatoes are sold 
everywhere. Little stoves or cookers are 
located on the streets and the potatoes are 
cooked and sold l'apidly. The device con¬ 
sists of a small stove or brazier with char¬ 
coal for fuel. Over this is placed an iron 
kettle containing boiling fat. Raw pota¬ 
toes after being pared are cut in pieces 
and put into this boiling fat, where they 
are thoi'oughly cooked, then taken out and 
salted and sold in small paper bags. In 
France these take the place of the popcorn 
or peanuts largely sold in American cities. 
The potatoes provide a good food; as they 
are served hot they are very palatable. 
Thousands of bushels of potatoes are 
worked off in this way, and in France 
the trade is growing rapidly and driving 
out the sales of other so-called foods. 
This picture from an actual photo shows 
Louden Balance Grapple Fork 
lilting a third of a ton of dry clover hay. 
How’s that for a winner? 
There isn’t another fork in the world 
in its class. It’s the only one that can 
handle clover, alfalfa and threshed straw as success¬ 
fully as timothy. No dribbling or scattering, with 
long stuff or short, large load or small. 
LoucJen’s o a ra™l c I Fork 
has a patented arch support that gives perfect bal¬ 
ance. It takes hold or releases its load at the slight¬ 
est touch. Simple in design, made of steel with 
heavy malleable connections. Will lift hall a Ion 
without bend or break. 
Get the Louden, the best hay fork in the 
world. Seeit at your dealer’s. If he hasn’t it don’t 
run chances with any other—write us direct. 
Get our complete Free Catalog of Louden Barn 
Tools, Feed and Litter Carriers, Flexible Bird Proof 
Door Hangers, Hay Tools, etc. Also booklet “Some 
Interesting Facts on a ^^Homcly Subject. Write 
now. 
601 Broadway, 
Fairfield, 
Iowa. 
Louden 
Machinery 
Co. 
WISHER STEEL HAND CART 
Platform hangs low jridos level. 
Will hold four 40-qt. milk cans. 
Tips forward like warehouse 
truck. Will turn clear over to 
dump load. Fitted with large 
body for farmers. 
. . . Write for Prices . . . 
WISNER MFG. CO., 
230 Greenwich St., New York 
—99_%o % Pure— 
American Ingot Iron Roofting 
Guaranteed For 30 Years 
Without Painting 
The Only Guaranteed Metal Roofing ever put on the 
market. Samples free. Write for a free book showing 
remarkable tests. A way out of your roof troubles. 
THE AMERICAN IRON ROOFING CO., Dept. 0, ELTRIA, OHIO 
We have been very busy with Spring 
work, and at the present time (April 13) 
are a mouth or more ahead of last year. 
We have our grain all in and up; early 
garden planted and up, and our silage corn 
ground covered with a fresh coat of manure 
as well as about six inches of grass, when 
along came something I never heard of or 
saw in my 25 years here—a snowstorm, 
April 10. It melted here as fast as it fell, 
but on the bills they bad as high as six 
inches. Much of the early fruit was in 
bloom or nearly so, and I fear that the 
last few frosty nights will do some damage. 
Sherwood, Ore. c. h. h. 
DO YOU NEED FARM HELP? 
The Jewish Agricultural and Industrial Aid 
Society has on its lists men wishing to obtain em¬ 
ployment upon farms. Most of them are without 
experience, but they are able-bodied and willing 
to work. They speak little or no English, although 
many of them speak German. If you can make 
use of such help, please communicate with us, 
stating what you will pay, whether the work is 
permanent, and whether you prefer a single or a 
married man. We are a philanthropic organiza¬ 
tion, whose object it is to assist and encourage 
Jews to become farmers. We charge no commis¬ 
sion to employer or employee. Address 
THE J. A. & I. A. S., 174 Second Avenue. NEW YORK CITY 
We are having a beautiful Spring for 
fruit buds; keeps very cold so that they 
have not started any * to speak of, do not 
show gi-een yet; that is, apples do not. 
Prospects are for a good crop of all kinds 
of fruit. No plowing to speak of lias been 
done and very little sowing done, but if 
we get better weather this week there will 
be a lot done, as the ground is in good 
shape to work. Onion growers are about 
ready to sow, and the average will be 
about normal. A great deal more celery 
will be planted than ever before if the 
plants are plenty. w. p. r. 
Wayne Co., New York. 
Do Your 
Buildings 
Need Paint? 
Examine your buildings and see if they 
need painting now. If they do, don’t put 
the work off because you believe linseed 
oil will drop in price. There is no hope 
of it. Besides, the price of paint made- 
to-order of 
“Dutch Boy Painter” 
White Lead and pure linseed oil is lower than 
you may think, if you have not actually figured it. 
Get prices from your dealer on the ingredients 
of this old-fashioned, long-wearing, pure white 
lead paint. You will find it cheaper than any 
other paint you’d think of using. 
Write for our free "Painting Helps No. 1608 
NATIONAL LEAD COMPANY 
An office in each of the following cities: 
lIT New York Cleveland Chicago 
III: St. Louis Boston Buffalo 
Cincinnati San Francisco 
(John T. Lewis & Bros. Co., 
Philadelphia) 
(National Lead and Oil Co.. 
Pittsburgh) 
FINE NEW YORK STATE FARM FOR SALE 
For a quick sale'I am offering my farm at a bargain. 
530 acres seven miles from heart of Syracuse, N. Y., 
outlie Utica-Syracuse trolley line, also the trunk 
line of State road east and west through the 
county. Buildings all in best of condition, many 
of them new. Price, $30,000.00. For furtlior par¬ 
ticulars address: 
M. CROUSE KL0CK, 200 W. Water Street, Syracuse, N. Y. 
I?OR SALE—Two N. J, Farms—116 and 54 acres. 
A Near R.R, station, school, etc.: both watered by 
springs and creek. Jos. R. Case, Everittstown, N. J. 
I Want 100 to 200 Acres SSSj 
buildings in good repair. NAT. L. ROWE, Union City,Mich. 
WANTED—GENERAL STOCK AND GRAIN FARM-200 or 300 
** acres, in Orange County, New York. Send 
description, R. It. folder, price and terms first 
letter, C. D. BARCLAY, Jefferson, Iowa. 
A Pfilll TRY PI ANT having breeding pen and 
m i uui.Mii i t-nil l necessary equipment to 
produce 1,500 pullets for Fall laying — 600 chicks 
already hatched — wants a man to put in some 
capital to increase business and take an active work¬ 
ing part in the management. Farm within 35 miles 
of New York City. Address Box A. H. A., The 
Rural New-Yorker. 
FLORIDA. CROWING 
ORANGES, 
GRAPEFRUIT AND 
VEGETABLES. 
Highest prices secured in 
Northern and b astern Mar¬ 
kets. Quick transportation 
—low freight rates via. S. 
A. L. Ry. Cheap lands 
—ideal climate—two and 
three crops a year—$500 to 
$ 1500 net per acre. Peo¬ 
ple who locate here are satis¬ 
fied. Write for free illus¬ 
trated booklet. Address: 
J. W. WHITE. 
GEN’L INDUSTRIAL AGENV, 
SEABOARD AIR LINE RY. 
DIPT, A NORFOLK. VA. 
