1913 . 
THE RTJRAb NEW-YORKER 
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Seeding Alfalfa with Rye. 
We are about 500 feet above salt water, 
between the Connecticut and Thames val¬ 
leys in Connecticut. We can obtain an ex¬ 
cellent catch of the clovers by sowing rye 
in the Fall and broadcasting the clover and 
grass seed on the muddy ground in March, 
or better after a light fall of snow. Would 
Alfalfa catch if sown in this way, pro¬ 
vided necessary lime and inoculation were 
supplied? w. e. a. 
No. Westchester, Conn. 
Not so well as clover. Alfalfa does not 
thrive so well with a Spring nurse crop. 
The young Alfalfa plants are not so strong 
as young clover. In your section late 
Summer seeding alone would pay better. 
We have some reports of seeding success¬ 
fully in this way but the majority who 
try it report failure. 
Keeping Ice. 
On page 1287 R. M. D. speaks of ice 
keeping badly. He does not state in what 
manner the ice wasted, whether greatly 
from the sides, bottom or top, which is 
the important point to consider in correct¬ 
ing the trouble. We had an old ice room 
with stone on two sides, and now have a 
concrete one—I described it last year— 
with bottom similar to that mentioned by 
R. M. D. The ice never kept very late, 
naturally it wasted from the sides, more 
from the stone than elsewhere, but that 
did not seem to he the source of failure. 
Three years ago I cleaned off the bottom 
of the present house, scraped it clean and 
gave it a thin coat of concrete, sloping 
the bottom to the drainage corner, the 
same as a carriage wash. The soil being 
gravel or hardpan. I put the concrete di¬ 
rectly on the soil after scraping and sweep¬ 
ing clean; then put about five to six 
inches of sawaust under the ice. Since 
then we have had ice to throw out before 
filing. Judging from what I have seeD 
and heard this treatment would improve 
many poor (?) houses. If R. M. D’s. ice 
had cracks opened in the middle as if air 
came up through, the bottom is the trouble 
—not air, but melting faster on the bot¬ 
tom at the edges than the center, dropping 
cakes as in cue. Walter garbrant. 
New Jersey. 
Waste from Sink; Iron Water Pipe. 
1. How can I dispose of wastes from a 
sink in the house, the ground being all 
on a level? 2. Would galvanized iron 
pipe be all right to pump water from a 
cistern in the house? w. g. k. 
Kenosha, Wis. 
1. The writer did this by digging a 
small pit about three feet deep and two 
feet across, stoning it up with flat field 
stone and covering with a large flagstone, 
after which the whole was covered with 
earth to the level of the surrounding 
ground. The waste from the kitchen sink 
was carried into this small cesspool 
through common black iron pipe laid under 
ground and with sufficient grade to prevent 
water from ever standing and freezing 
in it. The size of pit needed would de¬ 
pend upon the character of the soil; if 
this is a close loam or clay, the pit would 
need to be much larger, while in open 
gravel, a very small cesspool will care for 
the waste water from one sink. 
2. A galvanized iron pipe would be 
suitable for this purpose, though if the 
distance is short and sharp turns need to 
be made, lead pipe is more commonly 
used. M. B. D. 
beef and pork. The beef supply of Stark 
County is almost ruinPd by the vcaling of 
the calves. In spite of the high prices paid 
at home there are a few stock buyers ex¬ 
isting who ship their stock to Pittsburgh, 
and at the same time Chicago is shipping 
a large amount of stock here. It looks as 
though it was just to accommodate the rail¬ 
road company. A large amount of cream 
is shipped a long distance to creameries 
and butter shipped back to where it started 
from in many cases, which makes it high 
priced when it gets to the consumer. 
Stark Co., O. l. h. m. 
Seeding Oats and Peas. 
I desire to seed 10 acres to oats and 
Canada field peas next Spring, and cut for 
hay. What amount of seed of each per 
acre ought I to have? Will it do in our 
heavy subsoil to plow the peas under? 
It seems to me they would be apt to rot. 
Could I with any chance of success seed 
to Timothy in the oats and peas? 
Missouri. h. e. m. 
We use about five pecks of peas and 
three bushels of oats per acre when hay or 
green fodder is wanted. We should ' not 
plow the peas under deeply on such heavy 
soil—not over four inches. We have 
found a disk harrow better than a plow on 
such soil. There is a fair chance that 
Timothy will “catch” in such seeding. Wo 
have not had much success with it, but 
others often report a good stand of grass 
on such soil. 
COMING FARMERS’ MEETINGS. 
Peninsula Horticultural Society, twenty- 
sixth annual meeting, Wilmington, Dei.. 
January 14-16. 
Delaware Corn Growers’ Association. 
January 15-16, Wilmington, Del. 
Sixteenth exhibition Vermont State Poul¬ 
try Association, St. Albans, Va„ January 
14-17, 1913. 
New York State Fruit Growers’ Asso¬ 
ciation, Convention Hall, Rochester, N. Y.. 
January 15-17, 1913. 
New York State Sheep Breeders’ Asso¬ 
ciation, Utica, N. Y., January 22. 
Fourth Ohio State Apple Show, Zanes¬ 
ville, O., January 20-24, 1913. 
Cleveland, O., Fanciers’ Show, Januarv 
20- 25, 1913. 
Twenty-fourth annual meeting of the 
South Dakota State Horticultural Society, 
Redfield, S. D., January 21-23, 1913. 
Pennsylvania Dairy Union, Harrisburg, 
Pa., January 21-23. 
Connecticut Dairymen's Association, 
thirty-second annual convention, Meriden, 
Conn., January 21-23. 
New York State Breeders' Association, 
annual meeting, Utica, N. Y., January 
21- 23. 
West Virginia State Horticultural So¬ 
ciety, Charleston, W. Va., January 22-23. 
Genesee County Poultry Association, 
Batavia, N. Y., January 22-27. 
Massachusetts Agricultural College. Am¬ 
herst. Mass., school of apple packing. Jan¬ 
uary 23-29, 1913. 
American Breeders’ Association. Colum¬ 
bia, S. C., January 25-27, 1913. 
Northeastern Poultry and Pet Stock As¬ 
sociation, Inc., fourth annual show, Green 
Bay, Wis., January 30-31, Feb. 1-3. 
Fifth National Corn Exhibition, State 
Exposition Grounds, Columbia. S. C., Janu¬ 
ary 27 to February 8 , 1913. 
New York State Grange, Buffalo, N. Y., 
February 3-6. 
Farmers’ Course at Rhode Island State 
College, February 5-7. 
New York State Vegetable Growers' As¬ 
sociation, College of Agriculture, Ithaca, 
February 11-13, 1913. 
Farmers’ Week, N. Y., State College of 
Agriculture, Ithaca, February 10-15, 1913. 
A Perfect Fit 
The tractor for the 
moderate-sized farm from 
160 acres up is the 
15-30 h.p. 
It really fits any sized farm. 
You can count on a Gas- 
Pull all the time—there’s a 
job it can do every day in 
in the year. 
Plowing, baling, sawing, 
harvesting, threshing, hauling, 
etc. It does any kind of work. 
It s so light and handy—a boy 
can take it anywhere on the farm 
and run it without trouble. 
It s well built, all the working 
parts are protected and it’s inex¬ 
pensive to buy or to run. 
Data-Book No. 352, on the 
GasPull, will tell you a lot about 
this tractor. Send for it. 
RUMELY PRODUCTS CO. 
(Incorporated) 
Power-Farming Machinery 
LA PORTE, IND. 
_ 463. 
MORE POTATOES PER ACRE 
Think of finding one to eleven $s bills 
in the furrow, on every acre you . 
plant. _It’s been done many 
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andyou’vegotthe mon¬ 
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It costs no 
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ground, 
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cultivate, 
spray and 
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This 
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No injury to seed. Ask 
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JOHN DEERE 
SPREADER 
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Mounting the beater on the axle is the great¬ 
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A great many trouble-giving working parts 
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The John Deere Spreader has no clutches, no 
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The strain and stress of spreading is on the 
rear axle, the strongest part of the spreader— 
where it belongs—not on its eide. 
Roller bearings, few parts, the center of the 
load comparatively near the horses, and the 
weight distributed over four wheels, make the 
John Deere Spreader light draft. 
Only “Hip-High” 
The John Deere Spreader is only “hip-high” 
to the top of the box. The first, three feet you 
lilt manure are easiest of all. It’s 
hard work from 
there to the top 
of ordinary 
spreaders. 
You lift each 
forkful only 
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ALFALFA FOR SALE 
Fifty tons of first and twenty tons of second cutting 
of the finest Alfalfa, baled and ready to ship. Just 
what the dairyman must feed to get best results. 
$20 per ton, F. O. B. McLennan Farm, Fayetteville, N. Y. 
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Bees 
for the 
Farm 
If you are interested in them send for a 
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Medina, Ohio. 
THE SOURCE OF A GOOD MARKET. 
To have a good market it is necessary 
to have a large city and village population 
which requires abundance of work and good 
wages, and backed by wealth and brains, 
and this is certainly what Stark County, 
Ohio, possesses. Stark County is under¬ 
laid with several good veins of bituminous 
coal, ranging from two to five feet in 
thickness, and in some places more. Most 
of these, if not all, are underlaid with the 
famous “Ohio fire clay," which makes fine 
building brick; besides the building brick 
the very hard paving brick drain tile, 
sewer pipe, building blocks, stack blocks 
and silo blocks, and other forms of fire¬ 
proofing. Farmers can get drain tile at 
a very reasonable price. In a narrow val¬ 
ley running across the corners of Stark 
and Carroll counties there are 10 of these 
large works in nine miles’ distance. There 
are many iron works of various kinds, coal 
mines and many other shops and factories 
too numerous to mention. The city and 
village population of Stark County is near- 
1 y 90,000, with many country homes oc- 
eupied by people who are employed In the 
city, village or coal mines, who are con¬ 
sumers and not producers. These shops 
and factories with their short hours and 
long evenings attract too many farm boys 
and girls for the good of our country. 
Farm labor is very scarce and high priced. 
But there is one thing Stark Countv can¬ 
not boast of and that is her roads; the 
small word “mud” can hardly express the 
conditions, but the writer believes she has 
awakened to the fact, for she has built 
several miles of brick-paved roads in the 
last two or three years and contracts have 
been let for others, so we farmers are liv¬ 
ing in hopes of having something else to 
travel over in the future than we have 
bad in the past. A large part of the per¬ 
ishable crops are sold direct from the 
producers' wagon to the consumer, and the 
commission man and grocervman has no 
say in it. Eggs at present are 42 cents 
per dozen, and very scarce, due generally 
to a shortage in young stock and neglect 
of the flock on the part of the farmer. Too 
many of us forget about the lieu when we 
are feeding 10 Vi cents per pound hogs. 
I he small towns generally consume most 
of the pork and the larger towns have to 
depend on the West for their supply of 
IN THE FIELD 
Making 
money- 
Of* in the Barn Wasting it 
Whether your horses work or not, their feed costs you big money. When a horse is laid up you / '"-v.Vb, 
not only lose the cost of feed, but also the profit that the horse would have paid if able to work in the field. 
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Kendall’s Spavin Cure 
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for emergencies. You never can tell when you’ll need it, and when 
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