1912. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
VERY EXPENSIVE DEER. 
You can never judge the size of a 
circus by the bill posters on the fence. 
The same refers to my orchard and the 
letter-head on this paper. My two 
brothers and myself, about two years 
ago, set out 20 acres to apples and 
peaches, and were getting along fine un¬ 
til July 6, when lightning came along 
and struck the barn and burnt up the 
whole shooting match, house and all; 
we saved nothing. Still our courage is 
good. There is only one thing that 
makes us downhearted, and that is the 
deer. Unlike our friend from Connec¬ 
ticut, it is not the talk about them that 
makes us tired, it is the deer them¬ 
selves. We have placed five strands of 
telephone wire above our stone walls a 
foot apart which makes about seven or 
eight feet from the ground. Still the 
deer come in and help themselves. That 
is the only thing that makes us discour¬ 
aged. . We cannot fight the State, and 
there is no redress. I would advise your 
readers not to start an orchard in New 
Hampshire until the State is willing to 
protect you from the deer. We are 
now going back to the city to earn 
some money to see this thing through. 
New Hampshire. j. w. f. 
A CANADIAN FOUR-HORSE HITCH. 
I have noticed the four-horse line 
hitch as given in a late R. N.-Y. by 
Eastern men. Here is the way I learned 
how in Western Canada, where three, 
four and five horses are driven abreast. 
I think it is simpler than those given, 
and it is effective, I know. Put line on 
a span in usual way. Just back of cross- 
line buckles put on short pieces, say 
eight inches long, with buckles on main 
line and ring on end of pieces. Get two 
PLAN OF FOUR-HORSE HITCH. 
eight-foot outside lines and fasten to 
rings with snap and to bits'on outside 
horses. Connect outside horses by short 
bit lines to inside horses. See cut above. 
Connect center horses if found neces¬ 
sary. If a three-horse rig is wanted, 
unsnap two snaps and lead outside 
iiorse away. Take off the other outside 
horse and leave center horses all ready 
to hitch to a two-horse outfit. In pic¬ 
ture, aa, extra lines eight feet long; 
bb, short pieces, eight inches, buckled to 
main line and rings in end. E. j. R. 
Greenville, Mich. 
POOR SUCCESS WITH HAIRY VETCH. 
In Fall of 1911 I arranged with the De¬ 
partment of Agriculture to sow one acre of 
Hairy vetch for experiment purposes. On 
account of correspondence making arrange¬ 
ments for seed, etc., seed was not received 
until about September 17; soil, light red 
sand. Part of it had been planted to corn 
in 1910, most of it not planted to anything 
in five or six years, covered with rag weed, 
Summer grass and goldenrod. Plowed Sep¬ 
tember 21 and 22 with one-horse plow with 
cutter and chain ; everything turned under 
well. Harrowed once, then planked across 
furrows, seed sown September 22 and har¬ 
rowed in both ways, soil rather wet on 
account of showers September 21 : tempera¬ 
ture about 70. We had only one light frost 
and that was September 12, weather warm 
up to September 20; heavy showers morn¬ 
ing of September 26. A few plants showed 
September 20, seed up fairly October 5. On 
October 8 and 9 bad frosts. On April 4. 
1912, I looked field over and found very 
few plants alive. They seemed to have 
been frozen out, as I pulled some up and 
found them dead and stalk dried up. Now 
and then a plant was found green and 
growing, but there was not enough to make 
a test, as they were few and far between. 
We had quite a little snow, but ground 
was bare almost all Winter. On May 4 
I found indications of nodules on roots 
of the live plants. 1 sowed one acre in ad¬ 
dition to above with seed purchased and 
soil inoculated with soil from the State ex¬ 
periment farm at New Brunswick. This 
was sown later than the first acre and did 
not come up at all last Fall and very few 
plants showed this Spring. 
I credit my failure to get a good stand 
to late seeding and not giving plants 
enough start to Winter over, also poor soil, 
but as this plant is said to be especially 
adapted to sandy soil I expected it to take 
hold in good shape. I shall seed same 
ground to vetch again Fall of 1912 as 1 
am after something to put humus in soil 
and make the growth so as not to interfere 
with the regular Summer crops. 1 feel 
that I would have obtained better results 
from rye. E . M T 
So. Plainfield, N. J. 
Reo the Fifth 
$1,055 
30-35 
Horsepower 
Wheel Base— 
112 inchea 
Wheels— 
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Demountable 
Rims 
Speed- 
45 Miles 
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Made with 
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Passenger 
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The Center Control 
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By R . E . Olds , Designer 
. Nearly every builder of high grade cars is design¬ 
ing a center control. 
In another year, cars with side levers which block 
a front door will be so out-of-date as to hardly be 
salable. 
Bear this in mind in selecting a car. The side lever 
car is now a back number, as every maker knows. 
Left Side Drive 
In some cars the side levers are merely moved to 
the center. That idea won’t do. Men want to get 
rid of the reaching. They want the front of the car 
to be clear. 
In Reo the Fifth there is only one lever, and that 
is placed close to the seat. All the gear shifting is 
done by moving this lever only three inches in each 
of four directions. 
There are no brake levers, for both the brakes are 
operated by foot pedals. 
This arrangement permits of the left side drive, as 
in electric cars. The driver sits close to the cars 
which he passes. He is on the up side of the road. 
In making any turn which crosses a road he is sitting 
where he can look back. 
That is the greatest reason for the center control— 
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to it as fast as models can be changed. The side 
levers an! :he right side_drive are going out at once. 
This Year’s Sensation 
Reo the Fifth, with the center control, has been this 
year’s sensation. Our spring output was five times 
oversold. 
In all the 25 years I have spent in this industry, I 
have never seen such a popular car. 
It is this amazing demand which has driven makers 
to the immediate adoption of center-control. 
But That Isn’t All 
There are other reasons beside center control for 
this car’s immense popularity. 
It is the final result of my 25 years spent in car 
building. In every detail it marks the best I know. 
The cars are built under my supervision. And I 
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The steel is twice analyzed, before and after treating. 
The gears are tested in a crushing machine of 50 
tons’ capacity. 
Parts are ground over and over to get utter exactness. 
The parts in each car pass a thousand inspections. 
Engines are put through five severe tests—48 hours 
in all. 
Finished cars are tested over and over. 
There are in this car 15 roller bearings. Ball bear¬ 
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The bodies are finished in 17 coats. The seats are 
luxurious. The tonneau is roomy. 
With a lifetime’s reputation at stake on this car 
men know I am mighty careful. 
Then the Price of $1,055 
And the underprice has been another sensation. 
We fixed the initial price at $1,055, which is $200 
below any car in its class. 
The price of this car must soon be advanced, be¬ 
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materials last. 
Reo the Fifth is sold by dealers in a thousand 
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