THE RURAL NEW-YORKEE 
246 
J913. 
THE GOOD OLD STEAM ENGINE. 
I have been very much interested for 
many months in the descriptions of the 
advantages of the gasoline engine on 
the farm, also in the opinion of the 
writers on house heating as applied to 
our country homes. On page 112 I find 
an article on the old style steam engine 
as applied to his conditions by C. W. 
Hall, Columbia Co., Ohio. My first 
contention would be that steam on the 
farm is more useful than the power. 
But if you can get both out of one rig, 
so much to your advantage. Also, if 
you can furnish your own fuel from 
the natural waste of wood about the 
farm you are at no money expense 
whatever. The gasoline engine is a 
modern development of mechanical 
WAITING. 
skill, and the best brains of our bright¬ 
est young men have worked for years 
to bring out a sure, steady, reliable 
gasoline engine; but yet it has its tricks. 
Without doubt the best designs are in¬ 
stalled in the flying machines, and yet 
they come down, owing, in a large ma¬ 
jority of cases, to engine trouble. As 
the gasoline engine is of recent birth, 
allow me to bring forward the modern 
high - speed automatic governor steam 
engine, backed up by the modern water- 
tube boiler with automatic draft and 
water-feed, dumping grates for coal or 
wood, so that it will make steam in 10 
minutes from cold water. The steam 
is always waiting for you, and never do 
you have to wait for it. You can bank 
your fire with coal and never let it go 
out the year round, or you can have 
steam in a very few minutes from wood 
as fuel, before you can get your belts 
on and oiled up. For 19 years I have 
used my steam engine and water-tube 
boiler on my farm, and in all this time 
it has never failed to respond promptly 
to fuel and water, and done for me a 
full day’s work without a skip. It has 
no tricks. 
Perhaps you would like to know what 
work I do on my farm. Without ques¬ 
tion I have sawed 1,500 cords of wood, 
done the thrashing, filled two silos for 
17 years, pitched on an average 100 
tons of hay into the barns each year. 
This is the principal power end of the 
belt on my farm. You could do all 
this with your gasoline engine if you 
have a good one and you are its master. 
But ask yourself how many hard-earned 
dollars would you have parted with in 
19 years of service in barrels of gaso¬ 
line and the time and expense going to 
town getting it, loss in evaporation, 
coupled with the constantly advancing 
price and poor quality of gasoline. 
The best is yet to be told for the 
steamer; for 17 years we have enjoyed, 
out of our modern steam engine and 
boiler, the best house-heating plant on 
earth, carrying heat to 11 rooms in our 
home; no dust from ashes or dirt from 
fuel as in using stoves.; only one fire 
to care for. This rig pumps the water 
into storage and in 30 minutes gives us 
a three weeks’ supply, creating for us 
perfect waterworks, enabling us to have 
our hot and cold water at every point 
of convenience, furnishing us with a 
complete bathroom heated, and hot and 
cold water. Of course our laundry 
plant goes by steam and power, no 
stove, no wash boiler, not even a dip¬ 
per needed for the family washing; 
water and steam piped into the washing 
machine and the sewer connected to it 
makes it unnecessary to handle a bit of 
water. All done with a little wood for 
fuel and opening and closing of valves. 
In this same laundry room is the grind¬ 
stone, bone cutter, turbine cream sep¬ 
arator and as many more appliances of 
power and steam as you may choose. 
We heat the water for butchering and 
dressing poultry, and all kinds of steri¬ 
lizing, cooking food for poultry, and I 
cook hundreds of barrels of lime and 
sulphur for spraying fruit trees. 
This little steamer is worth its weight 
in gold to me if I could not get another. 
It is mounted on small wheels, and by 
disconnecting one union from heating 
system one can roll it out of your cellar 
or basement and do all of your outside 
work and return it when cold weather 
comes to your house-heating plant. 
Perhaps you have an old-fashioned roll¬ 
way out of your cellar with wood or 
stone steps, making it impossible to take 
this rig in and out. Tear it out and 
build an incline with cement bottom and 
you will bless the day when you did it 
for the convenience of passage in and 
cut with all other material that is liable 
to be taken into any farm cellar. Don’t 
be afraid of spoiling your cellar for 
fruit and vegetables. Partition off your 
boiler room, ventilate the fruit and 
vegetable part and you will have dry, 
warm floors above and all complaints of 
cold feet will disappear. The cellar 
under a farm house should never be 
used as a storage for fruit and vege¬ 
tables. It certainly is not a sanitary 
method. Your boiler room will make 
an ideal place for making the best cider 
vinegar quickly, keeping squashes and 
many other things where a dry warm 
air is needed. The steam engine and 
boiler of the right design rightly ap¬ 
plied is the most useful and economical 
power plant on the farm to-day. There 
is no argument that can down the mod¬ 
ern steam plant, as coal and wood is the 
acknowledged motive power to-day on 
land and sea. The harnessing of our 
many water powers is the great future 
for power and heat. c. a. k. 
New Haven Co., Conn. 
APPLES FOR CENTRAL NEW JERSEY. 
When considering the varieties of apples 
to be used in the list of 10 best kinds for 
planting in Central New Jersey, the Will¬ 
iams Early Red and Smokehouse should be 
included as the best of their respective sea¬ 
sons. This would apply equally as well 
if the planting were to be for a commercial 
orchard, nearby markets or for home con¬ 
sumption. In this section, the Williams 
Early has proven to be the most profitable 
of the early apples, not only in the home 
markets but also in Philadelphia and.New 
York ; during the past season they brought 
the highest average price of any apple in 
the markets at the same time, for coming, 
as they do, early in July, there are really 
very few apples anywhere near their equal 
in size and color, to compete with them, 
'"’'lie some report the Williams not a very 
thrifty grower, our own trees are top- 
grafted on Ben Davis, and are making very 
satisfactory trees; in fact I think this a 
better method for this particular variety 
than to set the variety itself, as obtained 
from the nursery. The trees bear average 
crops yearly, not being inclined to over¬ 
load with fruit some years, causing a large 
amount of culls or else the expense of thin¬ 
ning. As grown on the sandy soils here a 
large proportion attain a beautiful solid 
red color, not striped as in specimens 1 
have seen that were grown on clay land, 
and it is really their fine coloring and gen¬ 
eral appearance that cause much of the de¬ 
mand for them iu the markets. Unlike 
some other handsome varieties, the buyer 
also gets his money's worth in quality. 
Thus everything considered I see no reason 
wbv the Williams Early Red should not 
stand first among the early apples. 
The Smokehouse is an old variety, hav¬ 
ing been grown for many years, and yet 
it seems to be unknown in a great many 
apple producing sections, but I think It 
has more commendable qualities than most 
of the newly introduced kinds. In habit of 
growth tlie tree is ideal, being very vigorous 
and healthy, forming wide, spreading, low- 
headed trees. Our own 12-year-old trees, 
standing 30 feet apart, in some instances 
meet across this space, something which no 
other variety in the orchard can anywhere 
near equal. About all the pruniug neces¬ 
sary is to thin out the interlacing branches, 
as the tree forms its own head naturally. 
It bears heavily and if it was to be picked 
all at one time, thinning would In most 
cases be necessary for best results. In our 
own case we begin picking about August 
25, selecting the apples that had begun to 
show color, and thus continued going over 
the trees every few days until the last 
were gathered about September 30. In 
this way the main part of the crop was of 
better size and color than if only one 
picking had been made. The fruit is usual¬ 
ly* of medium size, good color and I have 
never seen any apple of its season to sur¬ 
pass its cooking qualities, while they are 
also :. good eating apple when thoroughly 
ripe. In our home markets it is almost im¬ 
possible to sell other apples while the 
Smokehouse is for sale. And it is really 
the ultimate consumer who stamps a vari¬ 
ety with approval or disapproval as the 
case may be, for when the buyer inquires 
for a variety by name if there is a plenti¬ 
ful supply of other apples in the market, 
that variety is pretty sure to prove suc¬ 
cessful for the orehardist. k. s. 
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