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THE RURAt, NEW-YORKER 
February 3. 
FLAN FOR A CONCRETE WALL. 
My fond hope is to one day own a 
farm and have it equipped with such 
conveniences as ice and cold storage 
houses for home use if nothing more. 
Therefore I have been much interested 
in recent articles discussing these build¬ 
ings. I have for some time had in 
mind building a double concrete wall 
which I would like to have discussed, 
criticised and reported on by any readers 
who may feel disposed to do so. 
In the accompanying sketch A shows 
a top view of a section of the mould 
which may be built of six-inch ship 
lap pine boards nailed lightly to the 
inside of 2x4-inch uprights, c, which are 
to be held securely in place by braces b; 
also the core, a, in place. The core is 
to be centered in the mould by the use 
of loose blocks, d, of a length equal 
to the width of the core. When suffi¬ 
cient concrete has been filled in to hold 
the core in place these blocks may be 
removed and the filling, to the top of 
the core, completed. Aifter the first 
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course of concrete, which should be well 
roughened on top to insure good 'con¬ 
tact with the next course, has set, the 
core is to be withdrawn and ties, f, 
made of one-sixteenth of one inch strap 
iron bent as shown at D, placed across 
the two walls, the core replaced and the 
operation repeated. B shows a side view 
of the core and C an end view. As 
seen at C the core is one-half-inth nar¬ 
rower on the bottom than on top, thus 
allowing for draught. Some of the 
points I would like to have discussed 
are: Are the tie irons heavy and long 
enough? How far apart should they be 
placed? Is the core deep enough to 
allow for sufficient rapidity of building? 
How wide can it be made and yet be 
conveniently withdrawn? Is a double 
four-inch wall heavy enough for an ice 
house for the average farm ? G. I. b. 
New York. 
ANOTHER SIDE OF THE LAND TAX. 
I have read the article by Mr. Doubleday 
under the heading ‘‘A Victim and the Land 
Game,” on page 1234, and while I think 
lie is right in part, there is much with 
which 1 cannot agree. There is no ques- 
tiou about the fact that “A Victim's” fail¬ 
ures were in a measure due to his own bad 
judgment and a failure to inform himself 
of real conditions, but Mr. Doubleday's 
analysis of this fact does not prove his 
remedy to be correct. We mention some fac¬ 
tors that contributed to "A Victim's" fail¬ 
ures, but like those whom he criticises for 
not digging deep enough, lie ignores other 
factors of as much or more importance. 
The banker can tell the farmer how to farm, 
the railroad man can do the. same, and 
many newspaper men know so much about 
farming and let other people know it that 
thousands of men in the cities who have 
learned farming from the newspapers, feel 
as though they want to go into the country 
and by their own success make farmers 
ashamed of themselves. But the stubborn 
fact remains that many who can tell how 
to farm, or rather think they can. cannot 
do it themselves, and as “A Victim" said 
of his engineers: “I could not help but ob¬ 
serve that most everybody else had fared 
about the same way, and many of my fail¬ 
ing neighbors were better workers, bettor 
managers,” than himself. To show that 
good crops of beans had been raised in the 
neighborhood does not prove that the same 
persons could produce as good crops again. 
Mr. Doubleday does not show us that to 
use good judgment in all these things, we 
must exercise the judgment of a soil ex¬ 
pert. an expert on irrigation, have a good I 
knowledge of transportation and markets, 
have considerable mechanical knowledge, 
understand agriculture and horticulture, 
know something about gardening and what 
to do for the bean weevil, the tomato worm, 
the web-worm, the melon aphis, the cab¬ 
bage aphis, the radish maggot, the onion 
tlirips and a host of other insects, as well 
as a lot about varieties of vegetables. He 
speaks about the shrinking price of water¬ 
melons as being a matter of history, but be 
does not tell us that every kind of crop 
has had its price shrink below the point of 
profitable production, and that even the 
now high-priced beef and pork, if you have 
them to buy, have had their low periods. 
And yet there has never been so much of 
these things, not even the watermelons, that 
they could not have been used by people 
who had none, if they could have been 
brought to those people at a reasonable 
cost. 
Mr. Doubleday appears to he awe 
stricken at the idea of a man sending egg¬ 
plant from southwest Texas to Pittsburg, 
Pa., but to the man whose market is over¬ 
stocked and a crop on his hands, he gives 
nothing better than trying to find new 
markets. And though it takes more labor 
to raise a barrel of eggplant and deliver 
it to the station than its share of the 
labor required to transport it to Pitts¬ 
burg, Pa., would be. he gives no reason 
why the express company should get nearly 
seven times as much for what it does as 
the grower gets for what he does. To say 
that a tax on land alone would remedy the 
matter is more than I can sec. There is 
no doubt about the fact that some of the 
unreasonable profit should be taken out of 
land speculation, but T fear that just a tax 
on land would not lie that “simple proposal 
of public policy to stop that sort of thing— 
by making it unprofitable." that Mr. Double¬ 
day thinks it would be. Will men be more 
honest in collecting taxes than in selling 
land? Profit in land is not the only cause 
of people moving from one part of the 
country to another, and yet thousands of 
men become discouraged with what they 
are doing from reading boom literature and 
pull up and move only to do worse. It is 
the misrepresentations and lies, fraud and 
dishonesty, in whatever line, that should bo 
punished. But the fact that many rogues 
now go unpunished is only another evidence 
that a tax on land alone would not be a 
complete remedy. There is a great differ¬ 
ence in the producing power of land as well 
as there is of individuals. On some land a 
man can give half of what it will pro¬ 
duce and still make more than the whole 
crop on other land. How can you apply 
a rent or tax on land so as to equalize 
its value to the individual? If you cannot 
do this the advantage of being in possession 
of one piece of land over that of another 
would supply a chance for speculation un¬ 
less you apply a penalty. And as long as 
rogues find a way to get around a penalty 
it will be necessary to teach people how 
to see the hook beneath the bait. 
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Good Crops of Oafs were Formerly the Rule; 
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One reason, is starvation — the lack of the rlprht kinds of 
plant food in the rirjht form, available at the right time. 
The result is weak plants that grow slowly, yield light 
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