1912. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
1167 
SOY BEANS AT THE N. J. STATION. 
Considerable interest is being mani¬ 
fested all over the country in the 40 
acres of Soy beans at the New Jersey 
State Farm in New Brunswick. Fig. 479 
shows the same field shown on page 811, 
July 27 issue. This latter picture was 
taken August 25. The rows are 2^4 
feet apart, but the growth is so lux¬ 
uriant that even with no runners the 
field presents this mottled appearance. 
This field planted June 1 was harvested 
September 15. The vines were cocked 
up that same afternoon and left a week 
SOV BEANS—SHOWING NODULES. 
Fio. 478. 
instance had any more effect on me than 
had I been piling and burning cornstalks. 
I have a son who is now 40 years old 
who never could touch a plant of ivy 
without being poisoned. As a physician I 
have treated many cases of ivy poisoning 
and until recent years never found any 
remedy that in any sense was specific. 
Not so now. I do not hesitate to say 
there is at least one drug which is sure 
remedy if properly used. The drug is 
creolin, a coal tar product manufactured 
exclusively in Germany. It is not in any 
sense poisonous, and is an excellent remedy 
for worms in domestic animals if admin¬ 
istered internally. The proper way to use 
it is to dilute it so the solution will be 
about five per cent creolin, then take suf¬ 
ficient absorbent cotton to cover the in¬ 
flamed part and saturate it wtith the 
dilute creolin and cover the affected part. 
As it dries out pour carefully more of the 
solution on the cotton, so as to keep it 
constantly wet. The pain and burning will 
cease in a short time, the inflammation 
soon subside and the patient will be well. 
I want to add that it is just as efficient 
in case of burns of every description, but 
should not be so strong, usually two or 
three per cent is sufficient. Use it for 
burns just the same way as for ivy poison¬ 
ing. I no longer use anything but this 
remedy for either burns or ivy poisoning. 
Try it, you who need it. It is also cheap, 
a pint bottle costing but a few dimes. 
Illinois. A. w. FOREMAN, M. D. 
Rat-proof Corncrib. 
After being bothered for years with rats 
in my crib, I finally built one this way: 
Get some old hot-water boilers, set them 
in the ground, head end down, about half 
their length: put a flat piece of boiler 
plate about two feet square on top. Lay 
the sills on these and you will not be 
troubled. Keep everything away from 
around it so they will have no chance to 
get in. I have only four boilers, as mine 
is a small crib. C. a. f. 
Connecticut. 
II. N.-Y.-—-Most farmers could not buy 
the old boilers, but large, smooth drain 
tile would answer. The scheme is to make 
it impossible for the rats to crawl up, and 
then remove everything nearby that would 
give them a chance to jump into the crib. 
or 10 days. Heretofore much trouble 
lias been experienced from the beans 
shelling, but it is doubtful if the loss 
was two per cent, from this field. A 
two-row bean harvester made in Wes¬ 
tern New York was used, and the plants 
were laid entirely loose in a windrow, 
without any trouble. Before planting 
the land was limed and inoculated, and 
the roots show an abundant growth of 
nodules. The beans have not been 
thrashed, but it expected that a yield 
of 20 or 25 bushels per acre will be 
secured. The market price for these 
beans has usually been from $3 to $4 
A Small Icehouse. 
Is it feasible and practical to build a 
small icehouse, say 10 by 15 feet? My 
neighbors tell me an icehouse that size will 
not hold the ice; it will melt before we 
really get ready to use it. Have you any 
information at hand telling what the best 
and most economical way is to build an 
icehouse; I mean as to the lining or filling 
in of the walls, figuring on a double wall, 
of course? Is concrete to be recommended 
for the floor? E. s. 
New York. 
I want to build an icehouse as small as 
possible. We use about 250 pounds of ice 
per week, say from May 1 until October 
15; more or less number of pounds as the 
weather calls for. I can pick up enough 
second-hand lumber for posts and inside 
A FIELD OF SOY BEANS IN NEW JERSEY. Fig. 479. 
per bushel when well cleaned and sold 
for seed. 
An interesting fact about Soy beans 
is that although they will not thrive or 
make a profitable crop the first year 
unless the soil is inoculated, the second 
year the crop becomes inoculated from 
the first crop, and nodules appear 
abundantly. The variety of the main 
crop is Ito San. Several other varieties 
are being tested out. a. l. clark. 
REMEDY FOR POISON IVY. 
The following is prompted by the query 
and answer in The K. N.-Y. for October 19 
about eating poison ivy to cure the poison 
from touching it. I happen to know of a 
trial of the remedy which had been recom¬ 
mended to a man who was very susceptible 
to the poison of the plant, and wno had 
tried nearly everything else. IIis survival 
of the test was little short of a miracle, 
for the poisoning of the tender mucous 
membrane of the mouth and throat was 
much worse than anything of the kind on 
the skin. I would not advise your cor¬ 
respondent to try the remedy. The idea 
of the reputed cure possibly came from the 
homoeopathic principle of “like cures like.” 
and, indeed, Rhus tox., or the tincture of 
poison ivy, is a hoimepathic specific, but 
it is given in a very diluted form, too weak 
to have any effect on a well organism. 
Manchester, N. H. w. h. h. 
I have had much experience with the 
poison ivy as a physician, having practised 
medicine for 47 years in a locality where 
the ivy grows abundantly and luxuriously. 
It is wonderful what a difference there is 
in the powers of resistance in different in¬ 
dividuals. When I was a youth of 18 
years I took a job of grubbing which lasted 
all Rummer. During that time T grubbed 
up, piled up with my hands, and burned up 
many tons of ivy, and it never in any 
lining, but I have nothing good enough for 
the outside, and I can only go about 18 
inches down in the ground, owing to a 
water ditch in close proximity. I would 
like to have it as low as possible, so as 
not to be seen any more than was neces¬ 
sary from the street. I can buy ice at 
30 cents per double load in Winter; in 
Summer I pay 60 cents per 100 pounds. 
Massachusetts. j. m’g. 
R. N.-Y .—This question of building a 
small icehouse comes more frequently than 
ever this Fall. We would like to have our 
readers tell us how small a building can be 
safely used for preserving ice and how best 
to construct it. 
Air-Pressure Tank. 
Intending to install an air pressure 
water system with buried air pressure tank 
I write you for information concerning the 
same. Can I dig into the earth say eight 
feet and build a concrete tank of six-foot 
side walls, floor and flat roof of the same 
thickness, reinforcing the roof with steel 
and making a man-hole in top with pipe 
connected through cover? Will the tank 
constructed of above description be air and 
water-tight and withstand a pressure of 
100 pounds if the proper mixture of cement 
and gravel be used? g. w. l. 
Milerton, N. Y. 
It is difficult for an expert to build a 
concrete tank that is water-tight and it 
is only possible when built of one piece— 
that is. when the whole tank is made with¬ 
out stopping the work. Even then, there 
is a good chance of its leaking. It would 
he altogether impossible to build the tank 
airtight under a pressure of 100 pounds. 
It might be made airtight for a short time 
by coating the walls with some material 
such as tar or asphaltum, but that would 
not last. For the purpose you suggest really 
the only practical thing is to use a metal 
tank. Paint it well with asphaltum before 
burying it and put it below the frost line 
for safety. 
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