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THE GRAIN-BUYING PROBLEM. 
Regarding your inquiry as to buying 
and storing feed in car lots, would say 
the farmer can save money by following 
this method, not so much as in former 
years when financial systems were not 
in absolute control, but still enough to 
make it quite an object. The low price 
has not been fixed at this writing (June 
21) ; the jobbers are holding off to get 
a line on crop prospects before com¬ 
mitting themselves. Last year I secured 
through a neighboring Grange a car of 
sprouts of excellent quality to help out 
a short hay crop. The price delivered 
at my station was $18.75 per ton; later 
the price went up to $31 per ton, so you 
see at the end of the season I was sav- 
ing $12.25 per ton. My cows came 
through the Winter in good shape and 
I still have hay. Lack of working capi¬ 
tal will prevent many farmers from 
buying at wholesale. ' The local feed 
merchant extends credit to the patrons 
of the creamery in his neighborhood, 
and on pay day the largest share of the 
milk check is his. By cooperation and 
purchasing at the best advantage much 
can be saved, but the only refuge of the 
dairy farmer is the silo and higher pro¬ 
ducing cows; without these he cannot 
hope to combat high-priced feeds and a 
meddling board of health; once he gets 
in debt his doom is sealed. 
I wish to give the amounts I have 
expended for feed each year, and per¬ 
haps some grain raisers will tell how 
much per bushel they received for their 
gram, then probably the grain-consum¬ 
ing farmer and the grain-producing 
farmer can make a deal without the aid 
of the middleman. We use the grain 
here in the East, they grow it in the 
West; it would seem a simple matter to 
make a bargain: 1906, $1013.02; 1907 
$1447.55; 1908, $1664.11; 1909, $1788.98; 
1910, $1608.92; 1911, $1880; total for six 
years, $9402.58. Each acre of my farm 
must pay an average yearly tribute of 
$18.37. The farmers and poultry rais¬ 
ers of a section could combine and buy 
such grains as corn on the ear, oats and 
wheat, direct from the growers to the 
mutual advantage of both. 
Orange Co., N. Y. geo. e. howell. 
Vetch in South Michigan. 
M e little know what our neighbors in an¬ 
other line of agriculture are doing. I 
dipped the enclosed note by Mr. G. II. Ited- 
field, (.'ass Co., Mich., on page 721. 
"I have had no experience whatever with 
Hairy vetch or any cover crop, and know of 
no one in southwestern Michigan who has. 
Our spelt is of the beardless variety, very 
nice to handle, and if cut at the ‘ proper 
time clover catches very nicely to it. I will 
probably thrash 800 bushels this year.” 
Mr. Itedfield is an up-to-date dairyman 
and dealer in cream separators, and is well 
acquainted with men and conditions in Cass 
( ounty and in the dairy section, the south¬ 
ern and eastern part of Berrien, the adjoin¬ 
ing county. The northern and western part 
of Berrien County, however, is interested 
in fruit, and not over 50 miles from Mr. 
Redfield’s home the fruit growers expected 
to use last Fall in the neighborhood of a 
carload of vetch seed, or enough to sow be¬ 
tween 1,000 and 2,000 acres. p. t. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
A FOUR-HORSE HITCH. 
A few weeeks ago I noticed a query 
in The R. N.-Y. in regard to hitching 
a four-horse team. I have not seen an 
A FOUR-HORSE TEAM. Fig. 311. 
answer, so will try to send one. The 
way they drive the teams here is to 
drive the center horses and use a 
"jockey stick” on outside horses. Fol- 
DOUBLE AND SINGLE TREES. Fig. 312- 
lowing is a sketch of double and single 
trees. The small picture shows the 
team. Webster kapp. 
FOUR HORSES ABREAST. 
On page G47 I note inquiry for a plan 
for hitching four horses to a Syracuse drag. 
Such teams are quite generally used here, 
and I will try to illustrate by diagram the 
method of hitching up such a team. First 
MA/N EVENER 
{—COMMON TWO HORSE EVEyVERS^ 
WH/EEL £ TEE£S 
the whifllotroe (see above.) We take any 
ordinary sets of two-horse plow whiffletrees 
that we may have, and then make the main 
evener long enough so that the ends of the 
whiffletrees will not touch each other. In 
regard to lines for driving such a team, let 
four lines represent four horses. Line No. 
1 to represent the left hand horse (Fig. 
Sawdust in HorSe Manure. 
There is an inquiry about sawdust in 
manure on page 718. by M. F.. New York. 
I)o not bo afraid of the sawdust; it is bet¬ 
ter than straw for top-dressing. 1 know 
that by experience. One should see the 
amount the lumbermen use and put on 
their land ; there is one farmer here who 
had from 30 to 40 horses. They use all of 
their manure, you ought to see the grass 
grow; they cut about 150 tons per year; 
they have just haled 100 tons. I would 
rather have horse manure with sawdust for 
top-dressing, pound for pound, than cow 
manure. We keep 25 cows. 10 yearlings and 
five horses at present; cannot get sawdust 
enough. There are men around here who 
think the same as M. F. does, but I see 
their farms do not keep as much stock 
as they did 10 years ago. I bought a lot 
about six years ago that did not look good 
for anything, all fire-fanged. I top-dressed 
a wet piece and got good returns for same. 
Tell M. F. to draw that manure and pile 
up where he can wet it down ; then this 
Fall top-dress with it or anything you like 
and see if it is not as good as the straw. 
Lam oille C'o., Vt. e. m. h. 
above). The cross line which is usually at¬ 
tached to the main driving line should be 
hitched to the bit of horse No. 2. the same | 
as though only two horses were to be used. 
Next put on another cross line which I 
should pass through a ring fastened to the 1 
throat latch on the bridle of horse No. 2 
and be hitched to the bit of horse No. 3 
Next put on another cross line which should 
pass through a ring attached to the right 
hand ha me on horse No. 2. next through a 
second ring attached to the throat latch 
of horse No. 3, and be hitched to the bit of 
horse No. 4. _ It may be seen that there are 
three cross lines, the first one used in the 
ordinary manner, the second one held in 
place under the Jaw of horse No. 2 by n 
ring fastened to the bridle for that pur- ! 
pose, the third one kept in place bv a ring 
attached to horse No. 2. and a second ring 
under the jaw of horse No. 3. The other 
line is arranged on the same plan. a 
New York. 
In reply to ,T. F. P. he can use two com¬ 
mon sets of whiffletrees with extra clevises 
find rings on a long evonor, or ho 'can use 
a set as used on Syracuse gang plow with 
end or short eveners raised (see below). 
END /RONS ON LONG EVENER 
• 
Use lines just as you use them for two 
horses, with center horses fastened to¬ 
gether, taking right hand line from each 
wJV n T ight hand aud left hand lines in 
left hand. r n ! 
Michigan. 
As to a four-horse evener aud lines for 
the same, I arrange as follows: Four- 
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Farming Under Water.—I live on the 
bank of the big ditch, no levee here, and 
50 feet on the gauge at Vicksburg. I could 
land my skiff at my door and my cows 
had to swim to get to the house.' When 
the water got to the highest it was over 
a foot deep in the house, and the flat with 
two cows on floated free over the porch 
floor, so I could walk a plank laid on 
blocks from my bed to the flat to milk. 
I had about 15 cords of firewood piled 
between the house and henhouse covered 
with boards for the calves and chickens. 
The only baby chicks saved came out while 
the incubator stood in nearly a foot of 
water ; it just got up to the bottom of the 
lamp when the break checked the rise. I 
had 125 chicks in a brooder set up on 
blocks and one day while the water was 
the highest a strange cat opened the door 
and the babes all came out but instead of 
hitting the floor as they did before they 
dropped in the water. f. n. h. 
Kellogg's Landing, I,a. 
horse whiffletree (see above), beam 6 1 /. feet 
long, three feet from pole to staple. Tlook 
your two-horse whiffletrees in staples as 
7L 
shown. Use your four lines as two outside 
lines and couple them together in the mid- 
<110 . £ 
New Jersey. 
Tanner s Advice Wanted.— I would like 
ef the tanning process; perhaps some 
oi l he R. N.-Y readers can give some in¬ 
formation on this subject. I have two re¬ 
cipes tor tanning; both are to leave the 
hail oi wool on, but this does not come up 
to my requirements. I want to know the 
genuine process of tanning that will take 
the hair or wool off. with hemloek or oak 
bark. I have the hemlock bark and the 
hides, but lack the information, a j r 
Van Zandt, Wash. 
It is not an unusual record to saw 10 cords of wood on one gal¬ 
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Get a Frost King rig and save money on wood sawing. Also 
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