1911. 
U'HiC RURAb NEW-YORKEH 
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HOW TO DIG A POST. 
The other day I moved my mail box. 
It was fastened to the top of a cedar 
post, and the post had been set three 
feet deep into hard clay loam. Rain 
has been a very scarce commodity for a 
month back, and I had to use a crow¬ 
bar to loosen up the dry, hard-packed 
soil around the post. Notice, I say 
“around the post,” and I imagine nine 
out of ten “suburban farmers” would 
go at the job just as I did, by digging 
and prying and sweating around the 
post. After more than half an hour of 
the hardest kind of work my ^ather-in- 
law visited the job and commented 
quietly by saying: “I generally dig out 
a post by starting in at one side and 
digging a trench the width of the post 
so that it will extend from the surface, 
two or three feet away, down to the bot¬ 
tom of the post, then pull the post over 
and there you are.” I listened, with 
sweat dripping from every pore and an¬ 
swered—“Sure, Father B, your plan is 
all right, but why didn’t you happen 
around half an hour ago?” j. B. B. 
Portland Cement in Place of Lime. 
G. P., Yaphank, N. Y .—Has anyone used 
Portland cement for liming land? Com¬ 
pared with land lime by the ton the price 
is about the same, but you can buy cement 
almost anywhere near by, but the lime has 
to come from a distance. Last year I got a 
barrel of lime for building purposes; was 
not lumpy, but more like grains of wheat. 
It was very easy to slake. It strikes me 
this would be a nice lime to apply to land; 
could be put on the land as it is, without 
much dust, harrowed in and left to the 
soil to slake it. 
Ans.— In relation to the question 
whether Portland cement can be used 
in place of lime, I should under no cir¬ 
cumstances think of using it, for it 
would have a bad effect upon the soil 
under many conditions. The kind of 
lime to which G. P. refers was unques¬ 
tionably ground burned lime. Some 
manufacturers grind it and keep it 
stored in large tanks so that it is free 
from air, and yet it is so fine that when 
it is worked into the soil it would slake 
there and would require no preliminary 
treatment. H. j. wheeler. 
Rhode Island. 
Clay vs. Cement Tiles. 
E. B. C., Princess Anne, N. Y.—Which 
would be cheaper, four-inch clay tile at $18 
per 1,000, six-inch at $30, or to make ce¬ 
ment tile, with cement at $1.85 per barrel? 
Either would have to be hauled two miles. 
We have plenty of good, sharp sand on 
the place. I have about 30 acres that need 
tiling. I can get a cement tile machine 
with a capacity of 200 tiles per day for 
$12. What proportion of sand and cement 
should be used for best success? 
Ans.— With good clay tile at the 
prices named they‘would be the cheaper 
for me. These prices are about 25 per 
cent, below what we can get the tiles we 
are using for, and that in large quanti¬ 
ties (about 200,000 last season and this). 
I know a cement block manufacturer 
who says he could not make it pay to 
make four-inch cement tile for $24 per 
1,000. Suppose we juggle these figures: 
Clay tile at $18 per 1,000; a man. buys a 
$12 hand machine that has a capacity of 
200 tile per day. These represent $3.60 
in the clay article and will take about 
one-half yard of sand and nearly a bar¬ 
rel of cement to make; $2 would be 
reasonable for this; this would mostly 
go for cement and leave a little for 
drawing the sand. Now we have $1.6Q 
left for a hard day’s work shoveling 
and tamping, and a few weelcs’ fussing 
to keep them moistened while they are 
curing, and they should have a place 
away from sun or frost during the cur¬ 
ing period. Fill a three-gallon pail with 
sand and measure the water it takes to 
run it over and you will have the pro¬ 
portion. Grains of sand vary in size, 
and good concrete is insured by having 
just enough cement to fill the voids in 
the sand. j. f. van schoonhoven. 
A Little Farm Well Tilled. 
I was interested in reading an arti¬ 
cle on what can be kept upon a country 
place, and perhaps you will bo interested in 
a list of the stock kept on my place of 11% 
acres, which is as follows: A horse, three 
cows, three pigs «\ith two litters, 100 lens 
and 200 chickens, 40 ducks, 10 geese, 25 
guinea fowls, about three dozen pigeons 
raising squabs, a few turkeys, a few Bel¬ 
gian hares and two hives of oees. For 
fruit I have aoont 50 apple trres *u good 
bearing condition about 35 years old ; also 
about one doz >u eaen of pear, peaches, 
plums, quinces and chevies, wth taspi < r- 
ries, blackberries, strawberries, grapes, rhu¬ 
barb, asparagus, chestnut, walnut, hazelnut, 
almond, persimmon and all kinds of vege¬ 
tables thrown in to make good measure. 
Also wo have lots of flower gardens, shrub¬ 
bery and trees and a lawn of about an acre 
or so. Sometimes we buy meat only once 
a month and our food bills will not aver¬ 
age over $15 a month for five adults and 
three small children. My grain bills 
amount to $30 a month, however, which 
tells a different story, although $45 a 
month isn’t expensive living “off the top of 
the land.” I do not raise anythiug to sell, 
although as a matter of fact we seil about 
$250 worth of surplus things each year. I 
have raised all of these things with success 
except the turkeys and hares. 1 started 
with 13 little turkeys this Spring, but only 
raised one of them to about tne size of a 
hen when one morning he disappeared with¬ 
out any notice, and I can only think that 
a hawk must have gotten hln.. The hares 
don’t seem to breed very well in confine¬ 
ment. Can anyone suggest a suitable meth¬ 
od of keeping the hares in confinement so 
that they will breed? While running at 
large they are a nuisance. I just started 
in with one hive of bees this Spring and 
saved the swarm and now have two strong 
hives and took out about eight pounds of 
honey. Can anyone suggest anything which 
I ought to raise or grow which I haven’t? 
Connecticut. s. n. d. 
It. N.-Y.—Under the above heading we 
would like to print statements like this of 
what people actually do on small places. 
Do not try to tell “big stories,” but give 
facts. 
Tile Your Farm With a 
Cyclone Ditching Machine 
S AVE its coil in ten days* operation. 
This is a big claim; make us prove it 
before you settle for the machine. 
We guarantee 300 rods of ditch per day 
with six horses. 
One customer writes : ' Saved 
its cost in a few days;” another, 
“Saved $45 to $60 per day;” 
another, "Saved $100 in four 
days;” another, “Saved $200 in 
tiling 12 acres.” 
It will do the same for you. Don’t delay— 
don’t wait for contractors—do your own tiling. 
Write today for catalog 
The Jeachke Manufacturing Co. 
Box 113, Bellevue, Ohio 
Preparing for Vegetables. 
I have a small piece of ground 40x50, 
Jersey clay, now in llower beds and grass 
walk. I am going to start and experiment 
for vegetables next Spring. What shall I 
plant now? R- b. 
What is the experiment for? It may be 
to test different varieties or to test the soil 
for fertilizers. To make it as uniform as 
possible we should spade 'or plow and sow 
a mixture of vetch and rye—at the rate of 
40 pounds vetch seed and half a bushel of 
rye per acre. Let this grow till planting 
time next Spring, and then plow or spade 
under and pack firmly. Then plant. 
Raising Fruits and Vegetables. 
Frcm the Peanut Fields of VIRGINIA 
To the Orange Groves of FLORIDA 
The 6 Sou. States traversed by S. A. L. Ry. 
offers special inducements. Land cheap. Ideal 
climate, water plentiful. Quick transporta¬ 
tion to big markets. In Land of Manatee on 
West Coast of Florida, raise 2 to 3 crops a 
yeat—net $500 to $1000 per acre. 
J. A. PRIDE, Gen. lnd. Agt, 
Sea-oard Air Line Railway. 
Suite 606 Norfolk, Va. 
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The Strongest Rubber in the World 
Don’t Pay Tribute 
To A Trust. 
RUBBER BEACON FALLS shoSds 
CENTURY BOOTS 
■ are made of the strongest rubber in the world. They’re made 
on honor by people wiio know how, on a special plan of construction that 
experience has demonstrated a success. The duck vamps are made by 
forcing the highest grade rubber into the best quality of canvas duck 
by powerful hydraulic pressure instead of by hand. Asa precaution 
against cracking at tbo ankle, we use an extra ankle reinforcement 
of pure gum, while others use a strip or doth. Cloth is cheaper. 
Century Soles are made from the toughest compound known, 
and will outwear the soles of the average rubber boot two to 
one. Here wo reinforced again by running a strip ot pure gum all the way 
around tho edge of tho so|e, making a connection so firm and lasting as to 
absolutely prevent breaking. It » not easy to ten a good rubber boot / 
More / 
' easy 
_ . representation of 
some smooth salesman that “it’s just as good' as tiie Century Why take 
Chances on goods of doubtful quality when you can have Century Boots, 
backed by years of success a* no greater cost? it has paid thousanas 
■ ct people who insist on having the Century Beaeon Falls Rubber 
Footwear is “always tho best for tho money' —best for wear—best 
tor style and fit. Ask your dealer for it. If 
he can't supply you, write ts, giving his 1 
name. Wo will see that you are fitted out. 
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HARLEY-DAVIDSON 
At Home 
motorcycles 
are the greatest pleasure givers and 
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They travel lOmlles for a cent and cost noth¬ 
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machine has won more competitive con¬ 
tests than any other stock machine made. 
Send for illustrated booklet. The Harley- 
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HARLEY-DAVIDSON MOTOR CO. 
109 B St. Milwaukee, 
Wls. 
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Fruit, Alfalfa, Grain,Vegetables, Stock, Poul¬ 
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with a KODAK 
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on home picture making that not 
only shows whatj you can do in picture 
making by the Kodak system, but 
shows how it is done. Free, at your 
Kodak dealers or direct by mail. 
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Virginia] 
Farms 
Buy a farm in Virginia. Wo have 
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Stock, Fruit, Trucking and Poultry 
Farms. Write for list, describing 
kind of farm you want. 
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Comparison of the Distance Traveled by Earth and Bell Telephone Messages 
The Orbit of 
Universal Service 
In one year the earth on its 
orbit around the sun travels 584,- 
000,000 miles; in the same time 
telephone messages travel 23,- 
600,000,000 miles over the path¬ 
ways provided by the Bell system. 
That means that the 7,175,000,000 
Bell conversations cover a distance 
forty times that traveled by the 
earth. 
When it is considered that each 
telephone connection includes re¬ 
plies as well as messages, the 
mileage of talk becomes even 
greater. 
These aggregate distances, which 
exceed in their total the limits of 
the Solar system, are actually con¬ 
fined within the boundaries of the 
United States. They show the 
progress that has been made to¬ 
wards universal service and the 
intensive intercommunication be¬ 
tween 90,000,000 people. 
No such mileage of talk could 
be possible in such a limited area 
were it not that each telephone 
is the center of one universal 
system. 
American Telephone and Telegraph Company 
And Associated Companies: 
One Po ticy One System Universal Service 
