1911. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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Ant Hill in a Grave. 
IF. 0., Mt. Washington, Md .—Tell me 
how to kill large black ants with red heads 
in a grave. They have made a large bed. 
Ans.— Bisulphide of carbon, poured 
into the entrance to the nest, which is 
then stopped up with earth, will send its 
poisonous fumes all through the un¬ 
derground workings and destroy the in¬ 
sects. If the nest appears extensive, 
make several holes with a stout stick, 
and pour in the chemical, closing them 
up immediately. Bisulphide of carbon 
is highly inflammable and explosive, and 
care must be taken to avoid bringing a 
lighted pipe, cigar or match near it. 
Sometimes, in destroying ants, the 
chemical is fired after being put in the 
hole, the explosion driving the poison¬ 
ous vapors all through the ants’ nest, 
but this needs great care, or the op¬ 
erator may be caught in the flash. 
Forestry Tax Exemption in Pennsylvania. 
Does a farmer in this States receive any 
benefit from the State for woodland or for¬ 
est on his farm? s. R. 
Pennsylvania. 
Pennsylvania law of May 7, 1897, pro¬ 
vides as follows. We do not think it has 
been repealed : 
“In consideration of the public benefit to 
be derived from the retention of forest or 
timber trees, the owner or owners of land 
in this commonwealth having on it forest or 
timber trees of not less than 50 trees to the 
acre, and each of said trees to measure at 
least eight inches in diameter at a height 
of six feet above the surface of the ground, 
with no portion of the said land absolutely 
cleared of the said trees, shall, on making 
due proof thereof, be entitled to receive 
annually fi*bm the commissioners of their 
respective counties during the period that 
the said trees are maintained in sound con¬ 
dition upon the said land, a sum equal to 
80 per centum of all taxes annually assessed 
and paid upon the said land, or so much of 
the said 80 per centum as shall not exceed 
the sum of 45 cents per acre. Provided, how¬ 
ever, that no one property owner shall be 
entitled to receive said sum on more than 
50 acres. 1807, May 25.” 
Winter Use of Lime. 
Some time ago the Chas. Warner Co. 
asked for experience in the use of lime in 
Winter. Large quantities of lime are 
handled in this section of Pennsylvania in 
Winter, where it is put on the land : plow¬ 
ing is done in the Fall. The lime is put 
in small piles, according to the amount to 
be used per acre. A little figuring T’ill 
readily show how much to the pile, and 
distance from pile to pile. Another way 
that is used is to pile in large piles 100 
bushels or more, reload in wagon or 
manure spreader when slaked. The lime 
is spread on the plowed surface in either 
method, and thoroughly mixed with the so!’, 
by harrowing, the spreading not being done 
until Spring, and only a short time before 
harrowing. The results are equally as 
good as when applied at other seasons of 
the year. Personally I incline to the small 
pile method as being less work and giving 
equally as good results. The advantage of 
this season is to get the work out of the 
way when the time of seeding comes in 
Spring, which is quite a help to both men 
and teams. F - E - B - 
Itunnesford, Fa. 
Stirring the Water. —Mr. F. H. King s 
answer to inquiry about how to get rid of a 
bad odor in cistern water reminds me of a 
similar experience many years ago. My 
house cistern was well ventilated and had 
quantities of lime, charcoal and other things 
put into it to purify the water, but without 
results, when I happened to think of aerat¬ 
ing the water. With 10 feet of small rub¬ 
ber hose and a bicycle pump I did the trick 
effectually. We tied a stone to the end of 
the hose to keep it down, and after pumping 
air into that water 15 minutes there was 
no odor left. A - C. w. 
New York. 
Using the Road Drag. —Popular Me¬ 
chanics tells of some new uses of a road 
drag—in Missouri. “One man has used his 
road drag for carrying produce to town, 
thus improving the road and at the same 
time saving the wear on his "wagon. An¬ 
other farmer has gone a step further and 
combined business with pleasure. His 
wife wished to visit a neighbor living about 
a mile away. As he was using his team to 
haul a road drag, he made a seat on the 
drag and hauled his wife to the neighbor’s 
and later brought her home in the same 
way. A still further use for the road drag 
has been suggested. This is the requiring 
of all joy-riding motor cars to tow road 
drags, thus improving the roads and at the 
same time reducing the speed of the cars. 
It might also be suggested that road over¬ 
seers who neglect the roads in their charge, 
should be required to ride on the road 
drags attached to the joy-riding cars. This 
would add the ballast necessary to make 
,the road drag hit the ground occasionally.” 
Killing Crows. —In answer to G. M. S. 
Will tell my experience in dealing with 
crows. We had a piece of corn where they 
were working. I took some sweet corn 
and soaked it in a solution of strychnine 
and dropped a few kernels near the ears 
they were working on. The next morning 
the crows held a convention but ate no 
more corn. Last Spring they started in 
to pull our corn. I took two eggs and 
made a small hole in the shells and pricked 
in a little strychnine and put them where 
they commenced, and there was no more 
corn pulled. wm. H. gray. 
Massachusetts. 
Lifting Stakes. —On page 983 .T. B. B. 
gives a plan for digging a post out of the 
ground, which is very good for heavy posts, 
but where posts or stakes are not too heavy 
to handle they may be lifted out of the 
ground by fastening a heavy chain around 
the post at the surface of the ground by 
means of a running noose. Then the opera¬ 
tor takes hold of the other end of the 
chain, draws it out so as to have a little 
slack chain, and gives the chain a quick 
jerk upward. Two or three jerks will 
usually bring up heavy stakes that are in 
the ground two or three feet without any 
digging at all. A. J. legg. 
West Virginia. 
Roadside Trees. —Quite a good many 
years ago my father and myself set a row 
of forest trees along the roadside (170 
rods), setting them with the idea that 
some day we would use them to support 
fence. They were certainly beautiful, but 
there were serious objections, especially 
during the dry seasons. From two to four 
rods of ground was about worthless to 
raise crops, plowing was attended with 
broken whiffletrees, and if not very careful 
the plow, and a sunny disposition consider¬ 
ably soured. I am now removing them and 
would not have forest trees set out again 
for anything. When very tall and spread¬ 
ing they kept the road muddy long after it 
was dry in other places. They were a ser¬ 
ious objection when making or repairing 
the highway. If any contemplate setting 
roadside trees set them in the fence lines, 
so that you can remove them at any time 
you feel they have become a menace to your 
crops. With 45 years’ experience I would 
say, don’t do it. jr. s. w. 
Paying for “Sport/’ —Some months ago 
I sent The R. N.-Y. a short story about 
the plan nof Illiois farmers to compel 
projectors of so-called sports who invaded 
farm lands, to pay for such invasion. 
After that was held a series of automobile 
road races in Kane County at which great 
crowds of people tramped on farm land and 
sat on fences. Peddlers set up stands on 
the land abutting the road and did a land 
office business. The automobile people re¬ 
cently settled with the farmers to whom was 
paid a sum of money that averaged $200 to 
each farmer whose land was used. This 
ought to stand out as an example for other 
soil tillers whose land often is invaded 
without let or hindrance, and after the 
excitement has passed, the farmer has had 
the work of restoring his broken fence, 
cleaning up the litter and doing other 
things that he should not be called on 
to do without recompense. If sport pro¬ 
jectors will make a playground of the prop¬ 
erty of a farm owner, let them pay for 
the privilege. j. l. graff. 
Illinois. 
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