1912. 
Local Cold Storage. 
At this time there are probably more 
farmers weighing the merits of home 
storage than ever before, owing largely 
to the difficulty o*f securing ample city 
storage for the crops of 1911. On the 
William Fisher estate, Center Co., Pa., 
• is a private storage house built many 
years ago by Mr. Fisher. The house is 
a square frame structure, very similar to 
the old square grist mill. It is double 
walled; the studding space, which is 14 
or more inches, is filled with sawdust or 
spent tanbark. On the top of the stor¬ 
age space is a large ice pan where a few 
tons of ice are kept during the apple¬ 
picking season, and in the Spring, if 
the apples are held for late market. 
Air circulation is kept under control 
and the influence of the cold air from 
the ice is augmented by the drip water 
from the ice being conducted around the 
walls in pipes to the ground floor. This 
house has a capacity of several thousand 
bushels. A profitable side line is a vine- 
. gar plant close by the storage house, 
where all windfalls and culls are util¬ 
ized. W. W. Farnsworth, of Ohio, has 
a house very similar to the one de¬ 
scribed, but his is constructed of one 
thickness concrete blocks. Mr. Farns¬ 
worth says he would now build two 
thicknesses of blocks. The writer has 
used a small, double-walled storage 
room for several years but has not 
used ice, relying entirely on trapping 
cold air on the first cold nights of Fall 
to keep the temperature down fairly 
well. This room was made by convert¬ 
ing an unneeded hay mow, by double 
walling and filling the space with saw¬ 
dust. A foot of dust is on the ceiling 
above and about six inches on the floor; 
over this we have laid loosely some old 
fencing boards to facilitate in handling 
the barrels, etc. A ventilator is pro¬ 
vided in the ceiling, which can be opened 
at will. Since it often happens that at 
a time we would like to move a crop 
the roads are nearly impassable a coop¬ 
erative storage house at or near the 
shipping point or market would be a 
good investment. D. H. watts. 
Pennsylvania. 
THE RURATv NEW-YORKER 
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FARM FORESTRY. 
How to Grow Hardwood Seedlings. 
Part II. 
Yellow poplar seed, which can be 
gathered in September and October, 
should be planted at once. If sown in 
the Spring the seeds have a tendency to 
lie in the ground a year before germin¬ 
ating. Seed from young trees is worth¬ 
less. The percentage of germination 
is very low—5 to 10 per cent—but for¬ 
tunately the seed is usually plentiful. 
Depth of planting seeds and culture 
same as White ash. 
Basswood produces seed freely. In 
the latitude of the writer (northeast¬ 
ern Pennsylvania) the large wings or 
bracts to which the seed is attached 
had turned yellow and the seeds were 
ready to gather on September 10, 1911. 
Seed should be collected from the trees 
and sown as soon as gathered, as alter¬ 
nate freezing and thawing during the 
Winter loosens the seed coat and causes 
early germination. If it is impracti¬ 
cable to plant in the Fall it may be 
kept over Winter by stratifying. The 
percentage of germination is very low 
—five to 25 per cent. Cover seeds one- 
half an inch. 
Red oak surpasses other oaks in rap¬ 
idity of growth. The acorns, which 
are quite bitter and not relished by 
squirrels, can be planted in the field 
where the trees are wanted with less 
risk than White oak acorns. Seed is 
kept, planted, and given same culture 
as walnuts and hickories. Acorns of 
the White and chestnut oak will sprout 
in a few days after falling if the 
weather is damp or rainy, and Fall 
planting is therefore usually recom¬ 
mended. The seeds of Red and Silver 
maples should be collected in May 
or June and sown at once. Sugar 
maple seed can be collected in October 
and sown at once or buried in sand 
for Spring planting. White elm seeds 
ripen in May and should be collected 
and planted as soon as possible, since 
they retain their vitality but a short 
time. Purchased seed is usually worth¬ 
less. Seeds can be swept from the 
ground or shaken from the trees into a 
canvas spread out below. Do not cover 
with more than one-eighth of an inch 
of fine soil, “firm’’ the surface with a 
light roller or board and mulch until 
seedlings appear. One pound, planting 
60 to 80 seeds to the foot, will produce 
about 25,000 seedlings. Black cherry seed 
can be gathered in late August or early 
September. If carefully dried the pulp 
need not be removed. Seed can be 
stored in a cool, dry place and should 
be covered about an inch when planted. 
Willows and poplars are best propa¬ 
gated from cuttings, which can be made 
from any time after the fall of leaves 
to just before the Spring growth be¬ 
gins. 
Where the Winters are severe a heavy 
mulching of leaves or straw should be 
given all seedlings if they are not re¬ 
moved from the nursery rows or seed 
beds the first season. This mulch should 
of course be removed as soon as growth 
begins in the Spring. It is not claimed 
that the foregoing list of trees is com¬ 
plete, but it includes the best hard 
woods for northeastern United States. 
The prospective planter should first con¬ 
sult the forester of his State experi¬ 
ment station. That official can prob¬ 
ably tell the inquirer of groves or plan¬ 
tations not far away. A visit to them 
will prove interesting and educational 
and a chat with the owners will do 
more toward convincing a man of the 
practicability of forest-tree planting on 
waste land than a dozen articles on 
farm forestry. What varieties to plant, 
the distances apart the trees should be 
set, what cultivation should be given, 
how fast they will grow—these and 
many other questions can be easily an¬ 
swered by visiting other plantations. 
S. K. MADDEN. 
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Agricultural Buildings 
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Agriculture doesn’t buy ma¬ 
terials for its own use by 
guesswork. The skilled ex¬ 
perts in its laboratories get 
at the facts. 
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