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THE RURAL, NEW-YORKER 
January 0, 
A CONCRETE FLOOR “WRINKLE.” 
The following little “wrinkle” in con¬ 
crete stable floor construction, while not 
exactly new, does not seem to be widely 
used. A depression one inch deep and 
12 to 15 inches wide is made in the con¬ 
crete next to the stanchions. This is 
done by sinking an inch board of the 
desired width in the concrete when it 
is first laid, and removing the board as 
soon as the concrete has set a little, 
which will be but a few minutes. This 
depression becomes filled with bedding, 
so that it makes no objectionable ir¬ 
regularity in the floor, and will keep 
the cows’ forefeet from slipping when 
they reach out after feed. 
CHESTER L. MILLS. 
DOES THIS MEAN YOU? 
It seems to be pretty well admitted 
that the right bower of the dairy busi¬ 
ness is a silo, calling Alfalfa the left, 
but Alfalfa cannot be grown in every 
section. Questions? How can a man 
play his right bower? By building one 
of course! “But I can’t, they cost 
money.” “I haven’t any lumber, pine 
is all gone.” Yes, but there are silos 
and silos. What is a silo? It is an air¬ 
tight box, barrel, bin, stone jug, any¬ 
thing that will keep green corn fodder 
from drying. Now you haven't any pine, 
I admit, but you have a lot of scrub 
hemlocks and some useless elms down 
in the pasture, and you have a team, and 
there is a mill three miles off, and you 
have a sled and a cross-cut saw and your 
parents gave you muscles! Just have 
those hemlocks sawed into 2 x 4s even 
if they are as knotty as sin. Then cut 
those elm trunks up into suitable size 
and have them sawed into four-inch 
plank, and then resawed into one-half¬ 
inch by 4-inch battens. Get them home 
and allowed to dry a little. Then make 
a concrete foundation, set up your studs 
16 inches on centers, and tack your 
first layer of battens on the inside, 
breaking joints with every one, mean¬ 
while wrapping a reel of fence wire 
around the outside. Put on a coat of 
hot gas tar to the face of the battens 
and tack on another layer lapping the 
cracks. Ditto with the third layer. 
Then you have an impervious veneered 
circular wall bound with hoops of wire 
outside and stronger than a beer keg. 
Bend bevel-edged light-weight siding 
around the silo over the wires, paint it 
with kerosene and Venetian red, and 
there you are. Now what did this cost 
you? Your time to get the stuff out, 
the saw bill, a few bags of cement, the 
nails and the tar and the wire, the sid¬ 
ing and a carpenter’s time for a couple 
of days plus yours. Now if you are 
the man minus the silo and plus the 
scrub hemlocks and the elms, just put 
on your thinking cap and get a move on 
in time for next year! Just think you 
can do it and it’s half done. j. d. 
COMING FARMERS’ MEETINGS. 
Winter Short Courses, Cornell University, 
Ithaca, N. Y„ November 28-February 23. 
Farmers’ Short Course, Burlington, Vt., 
December 26-February 24. 
Farmers’ Short Course, Ames, Iowa, Jan¬ 
uary 2-13. 
Ayrshire Breeders’ Meetings, New York, 
January 11. 
Farmers’ Short Course, Columbus, O., Jan¬ 
uary 2-February 23. 
Farmers’ Short Course, Amherst, Mass., 
January 2-March 8. 
Farmers’ Short Course, Durham, N. H., 
January 4-Mnrch 8. 
Farmers’ Week, Purdue University, La¬ 
fayette, Indiana, January 8-13. 
Virginia Horticultural Society, Harrison¬ 
burg, January 10. 
Vermont Dairymen’s Ass'n, Burlington, 
January 9-11. 
Farmers’ Week, College Park, Md., Janu¬ 
ary 8-15. 
Corn Growers’ and Stockmen’s Conven¬ 
tion. Urbana, Ill., January 15-27. 
Live Stock Week, East Lansing, Mich., 
January 16-18. 
New Hampshire Dairymen’s Ass’n, Jan¬ 
uary 17-18. 
Connecticut Dairymen’s Ass'n, Unity Hall, 
Hartford, January 17-18. 
Conventions, Pennsylvania Live Stock and 
Horticultural Associations, Duquesne Gar¬ 
den. Pittsburgh, January 15-20. 
Livingston County, N. Y., Poultry Show, 
January 16-19. 
School for Housekeepers, Urbana, Ill., 
January 15-27. 
N. J. State Board of Agriculture, Tren¬ 
ton, N. J., January 17-19. 
Farmers’ Week. Canton. N. Y„ School of 
Agriculture, January 22-27. 
Alabama Horticultural Society, Jasper, 
Ala., January 25-27. 
Ohio Apple Show, Marietta, O., January, 
23-26. 
Minnesota Short Course, Minneapolis, 
Minn., January 23-February 17. 
Farmers’ Week, Durham, N. II., January 
20-February 3. 
St. Lawrence Poultry Show. Ogdensburg, 
N. Y., January 30-February 2. 
N. Y. State Grange, Auburn, N. Y., Feb¬ 
ruary 6-9. 
Ohio Dairymen’s Ass’n, Columbus, Feb¬ 
ruary 8-9. 
Connecticut Pomological Society, Hart¬ 
ford. February 7. 
Farmers’ Special Course, Morgantown, W. 
Va.. February 1-16. 
Poultry Week, East Lansing, Mich., Feb¬ 
ruary 12-17. 
Farmers’ Week. State School, Lyndon Ctr., 
Vt.. February 12-17. 
Farmers’ Week, Cornell University, 
Ithaca, N. Y„ February 19-24. 
Farmers’ Week, Burlington, Vt., February 
19-24. 
Poultry Convention, Amherst, Mass., 
March 5-8. 
Farmers’ Week, Amherst, Mass., March 
11-15. 
Farmers’ Short Course, Madison, Wis., 
January 30-Februar.v 9. 
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