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VHli RURAL NEW-YORKER 
February 17 
What About Subsoiling? 
In line with J. S. Pierce's article, on 
page 117, “Good Results from Subsoil¬ 
ing.” I would like to ask if you con¬ 
sider subsoiling under the following 
conditions profitable? 
Three acres of side-hill land near 
the crest of the hill has underlying 
hardpan. Plowing under a good sod 
last year corn was planted the Spring 
of 1911 and yielded an average crop. 
Having top-dressed the stubble with a 
light dressing of manure I wish to 
plow under in the Spring and plant po¬ 
tatoes, adding phosphoric acid and pot¬ 
ash in commercial form to supplement 
nitrogen in the manure. Will it pay me 
to subsoil this field when I plow in the 
Spring? If so, what will subsoil, plow 
and labor cost—approximately? Do you 
know anything about the value of dyna¬ 
mite for breaking the subsoil? One 
powder company advertises advantages 
of its use in your publication. Is not 
the poorer subsoil mixed with the bet¬ 
ter top soil by the explosion to the det¬ 
riment of the crop which follows? 
Carmel. N. Y. j. l. l. 
R. N.-Y.—Here is a good chance for 
our people who have tried subsoiling 
in dynamite. Give us experience—not 
theory. _ 
HAULING LOGS. 
Fig. 60 shows what is going on in 
the lumber woods in Michigan. Men 
with good teams have work hauling 
fish got larger later in the season I feed 
them corn chop or bread and sometimes 
bread scraps from the table. The fish are 
very fond of most any kind of bread, but it 
is rather expensive food and I do not advise 
feeding it to them to any great extent. 
“In the Fall of the year I remove the 
wire screen fence and feed the fish, for 
the most part on cracked corn. In this 
pond I have channel catfish, river cats, bull¬ 
head cats and German carp. 
“It will be four years next Fall since my 
last pond was stocked. I have channel 
cat that weigh two pounds, river catfish 
that weigh four pounds, bullhead catfish 
that weigh from one-half to one and a half 
pounds and carp that weigh six pounds. 
There are also plenty of young fish in the 
pond, enough to stock two or more ponds 
like the .one I have already described. 
“I have a large box in the pond in which 
I keep live fish. I catch what fish 1 want 
to last for one or two weeks and place them 
in this box and feed them. This enables 
us to have fresh fish whenever we want 
them, and I must say that the corn-fed cat¬ 
fish are fine. They get very fat and it is 
not as much trouble to raise fish of this 
kind as it is to raise hogs. 
“We have a cement wall around this 
pond, which is two feet deep. 18 inches in 
the ground and six inches above the ground. 
This wall keeps all polluted surface water 
out of the pond. The pond is supplied with 
water by a windmill." 
COMING FARMERS’ MEETINGS. 
Winter Short Courses, Cornell University, 
Ithaca, N. Y., November 28-February 28. * 
Farmers’ Short Course, Burlington, Vt., 
December 26-February 24. 
Farmers’ Short Course, Columbus, O., Jan¬ 
uary 2-February 28. 
Farmers’ Short Course, Amherst, Mass., 
January 2-March 8. 
Farmers' Short Course. Durham, X. II., 
January 4-March 8. 
the logs out of the woods to the rail¬ 
road or river for shipment, or for 
floating down when the ice melts. Note 
the comparative size of the load and 
the team hauling it. With good sled¬ 
ding a tremendous weight can be haul¬ 
ed, but it requires nice judgment to 
load these logs so they will hang to¬ 
gether. With a load packed wrong it 
would be suicide to ride at the top. 
A Kansas Farmer’s Fish Ponds. 
The Topeka Capital gives the story of a 
fish farmer. Frank Bridgeman, a farmer of 
Bentley in Sedgwick county, says it is not 
as much trouble to raise fish in ponds as 
it is to raise hogs. He says this in a letter 
to Prof. L. L. Dyche, State Fish and Game 
Warden, and the latter thinks it is a pretty 
good answer to the fellows who have been 
declaring that fish could not be raised suc¬ 
cessfully in ponds. Mr. Bridgeman has 
been raising them successfully. He raises 
them for his own table just as he would 
porkers. He has fresh water fish whenever 
his family wants them. He fattens them 
just as ho would hogs. 
“I have a pond now,” Mr. Bridgeman 
says, “that is 50 by 200 feet and which is 
from one to five feet in depth. The shallow 
water is used by the young fish where they 
feed and where I frequently feed them. I 
have a netting or wire screen fence that 
extends across the pond and divides it so 
that the young fish can go through into 
the shallow water where they get their 
food. 
“I put bran, meal or fine chop in a very 
coarse porous or burlap sack and place it in 
the water where the little fish can come by 
hundreds and suck or work out this feed, 
and they seem to do well on it. Food suffi¬ 
cient for only about 24 hours should be 
placed in the water; if left for a very 
much longer time it will sour. When the 
Minnesota Short Course, Minneapolis, 
Minn., January 23-February 17. 
Farmers’ Special Course, Morgantown, W. 
Ya„ February 1-16. 
Poultry Week, East Lansing, Mich.. Feb¬ 
ruary 12-17. 
Farmers’ Week. State School, Lyndon Ctr., 
\’t., February 12-17. 
Farmers’ Week, Cornell University, 
Ithaca, N. Y., February 19-24. 
Farmers’ Week, Burlington, Vt., February 
19-24. 
Eastern Meeting N. Y. State Fruit Grow¬ 
ers, Poughkeepsie, N. Y., Feb. 22-28. 
Poultry Convention, Amherst, Mass., 
March 5-8. 
Farmers’ Week. Amherst, Mass., March 
11-15. 
January was a furious month for cold, 
icy zero weather. We have had no old- 
fashioned January thaw that we are accus¬ 
tomed to have, but just zero all the time, 
until at present it has moderated some. 
It has been an exceptionally good time 
to harvest ice, of which a large quantity 
has been secured. Wheat is quite well cov¬ 
ered with snow and a thin cover of sleet. 
Stock have had ravenous appetites through 
the cold weather, also the furnaces and 
stoves. Farmers are busy drawing wood 
for Summer and some are hauling stone to- 
be crushed and put on the road in the 
Spring. A large number of farmers at¬ 
tended the Western N. Y T . Horticultural 
convention at Rochester. They report it a 
good meeting. Farmers’ institute at Canan¬ 
daigua was poorly attended on account of 
zero weather. Land selling at remarkably 
high prices. Western horses are being sold 
here at high prices considering what they 
send down here for us to use. Would It 
not be better to raise our own horses, and 
get what we wanted, than to pay them such 
a margin on what we do not want? The 
following are the prices of farm products: 
Wheat. 95 cents; oats, 50; barley, $1.10; 
corn, 70; Timothy hay, $20; Alfalfa, $22; 
cabbage, $25 a ton for Danish; potatoes, 
90 cents; pork 5%; lambs, six; veal, 8%; 
fat cattle, five; cows, $50, and upward ac¬ 
cording to quality; butter, 30; eggs, 30. 
Apples in some of the cold storages have 
not kept well; one man it is said will lose 
$3,000 on amount stored. E. T. B. 
Canandaigua, N. \ r . 
How Your Peculiarities 
Affect Your Watch 
U ought to write us for the 
Y FREE book, “How Good 
Watches Are Made.” It tells 
a lot of interesting things 
about watches. Did you 
know, if you bend over a 
151 * great deal in your work, or 
ride in a jolting farm wagon 
more than other people, or 
in an auto, or walk faster 
or take life easier—all those things— 
that it makes your watch run differ¬ 
ently than the watches of your 
friends, who do things differently? 
And do you know the reason poor 
watches and most mail order watches 
don’t keep time for many people is 
that these watches are not sensitive 
enough to be perfectly regulated, to 
your personality by an expert retail 
jeweler in your town? 
It’s true. You must get a watch so 
well made that it is sensitive to good 
regulation and you must have it 
regulated by an expert retail jew¬ 
eler. The South Bend Watch irsuch 
a watch and it is sold only by expert 
jewelers. If your jeweler hasn’t a 
South Bend we’ll name one near you 
whohas. A South Bend Watch is often 
a full year in the factory before it is 
ready to stand its final inspection. 
It gets 411 inspections, and must run 
right in a 700-hour test for accuracy. 
Regulate such a watch to your per¬ 
sonality and it will keep perfect time 
for you for a lifetime; you’ll be proud 
to wear and show it. 
It’s because we know how impor¬ 
tant this jeweler regulation is that we 
don’t sell through mail order houses; 
mail order houses can’t get good 
regulation for their watches. 
You shouldn’t buy a watch until you 
know all about this. Write us for the 
free book. We’ll tell you all about it. 
^{ outh R end 
-■ / Watch, 
ft 
The South Bend Watch, you know, Is the famous watch that 
keeps perfect time even when frozen tight in a cake of ice. You 
can get one at $7.50 or up to $75 (in solid gold case). 
THE SOUTH BEND WATCH COMPANY 
" 2 Rowley Street, SOUTH BEND, IND. (89) 
Double-Glass 
Double Profits 
The old single layer hot-bed gash are better than 
none, but they must be covered; and boards, mats or 
shutters are pure waste. 
The new Sunlight Double Glass Sash with two 
layers of glass enclosing an air space, are 
Complete in Themselves 
They eliminate covers and half the labor; they admit 
all the light to store warmth in the bed and then save 
the warmth at night. They make plants strong and 
early. They double net profits. Every practical gar¬ 
dener or florist will see the 
value of this. 
It is good business for you 
to get our free catalog. 
Write your address plainly 
and send it today. The hot¬ 
bed season is not far off. 
Prof. Massey’s booklet on 
Hot-beds sent for 4c. 
Sunlight Double Glass Sash Co. 
924 East Broadway, Louisville, Ky. 
Drain Your Land 
for 4 cents a Rod 
We guarantee this horse' 
r power Cyclone Tile Ditching I 
' Machine cuts tile ditch, 10 in-\ 
r ches wide, 24 inches deep, afl 
'rate of 300 rods a day. Finished! 
ditch cut, tile laid and covered, for 1 
3 or 4 cents a rod in average soil. 
Read our free book giving information,! 
from U.S. Govt, authorities on Drainage 1 
Cyclone Tile Ditching Machine] 
pays for Itself in first 20 to 40 acres you 
drain, according to spacing of laterals. 
Increased crops all profit. Make hun¬ 
dreds of dollars on your own ditching, 
and cutting ditches for neighbors. 
Anyone who can plow can oper- 
erate successfully. Write for free 
book showing, The Money Making Way 
of Draining Land. 
Jeschke Manufacturing Co. 
Box 113 Ohio 
Plant Potatoes 
You can make large profits from growing pota¬ 
toes. They thrive in practically every stale in the 
Union, and, since they are used universalh^Ks 
food, the average market price in thedMr of 
quickly increasing population is bounc^rbJTiigh. 
Any intelligent farmer can grow JS l^up^bith 
good profit. The old time drudalry^SFj^ijed. 
Modern implements for planting, cuyffling, 
spraying, digging, etc. have made^Kctor/sasy to' 
handle. They have also given ^suran^p ol yield. 
We wish to lay especial emphasiWitkJh the im¬ 
portance of the planter to securing sttfMa, and con¬ 
sequently a big crop. Also, spraying, as it effects 
both quality and yield. Farmers! get busy on the 
potato growing. 
MAKE MORE MONEY 
Grow more potatoes per acre by having a 
perfect stand. In other words, use a planter 
you can depend upon—one that will drop a 
seed piece absolutely every time. It makes a differ¬ 
ence of 10 to 57 bushels per acre, With an Iron Arc 
Planter you can secure a 100 per cent, stand. 
Isn’t that the planter you want? It 
makes no misses, no doubles, 
injures no seed. Let us 
tell you what the Iron 
Age has done for its 
users. Ask for Mr. 
Lambing's letter. You 
are the loser if you 
don’t. Write for plan 
booklet today. 
BATEMAN M’F’G CO., Box 102 FGrenloch, N. J. 
