673 
1913. 
RURAT> NEW-YORKER 
CONCRETE BLOCK HOUSE SUCCESSFUL. 
Seven years ago I built a house of 
concrete blocks, and have lived in it 
ever since. As the construction of my 
house is a little out of the ordinary I 
will have to go somewhat into details. 
The blocks I used are the ordinary hol¬ 
low blocks 8 x 8 x 16 inches, and were 
laid in mortar composed of lime, 
cement and sand. The walls of the 
whole house from the bottom of the 
cellar to the roof are composed of 
these blocks. The house is T-shaped, 
the main part being 32 x 38 feet, and 
the stem 20 x 32 feet. The roof is 
what is called half pitch, and slants in 
four directions, there being no gable 
end whatever. This makes a very 
large garret, which is utilized in rooms 
that are very complete and as good as 
if the house was two-story. Against 
the outer wall all round the inside the 
house, I caused to be placed studding, 
2x4 inches, flat side to the wall, and 
these are lathed and plastered just as 
if the house were frame. The studs 
are long enough so that they are spiked 
at the bottom on to the sides of the 
floor joists, and they run up to the 
rafters and are securely spiked to them. 
The object of this was twofold; first 
to make sure that I had no damp walls 
in the house; second to make as sure as 
might be that the roof was not carried 
off by a fierce windstorm which we 
sometimes have here. About 10 days 
ago it had a trial of this kind, as we 
had a regular tornado of considerable 
proportion, but the house was not 
shaken nor the roof moved the slightest. 
Of course I have had no damp walls 
inside. The extra cost of this plan is 
so little that it is not worth consider¬ 
ing, certainly not more than forty dol¬ 
lars. 
Now do not think that had I not 
done this I would have surely had damp 
FERTILIZER FOR NEW ENGLAND FIELD 
CORN. 
The question is often asked whether 
field corn can be successfully raised on fer¬ 
tilizer alone in New England, and satis¬ 
factory results obtained from the invest¬ 
ment. I believe it can, and many have 
done and are doing it at the present time. 
I know of one grower whose place was 
about a mile distant who grew year after 
year for many years several acres of corn 
with the application of 800 to 1,200 pounds 
per acre of commercial fertilizer. His 
yield per acre I do not know, but I do 
know that he considered it a profitable one, 
and he always knew whether a crop paid 
or not on his farm. We have further 
proof on the question from P. E. Davis, 
of Granby, one of the prize winners at the 
Boston corn show last November. Mr. Davis 
informs us that he uses fertilizer alone to 
the amount of from 1,500 to 1,900 pounds 
per acre, and 1,000 pounds per aero with 
stable manure. His yields for 1909-1910 
and 1911 were, shelled corn per acre, 105, 
127 and 110 bushels. He sells his stover 
for .$8 and .$10 per ton, and this year sold 
tons from one acre. His sped was 
obtained from a cross some 20 years ago, 
and has been bred and kept pure ever 
since. lie sells large quantities for seed, 
and certainly thinks there is money in rais¬ 
ing field corn in New England. 
Another example of profitable field corn 
grown on commercial fertilizer is Mr. N. 
I. Bowditch, of Framingham, who took the 
lion’s share of the prizes at the corn show ; 
among these, the best ear at the show, the 
best 10 ears and several special prizes. 
The originator of Mr. Bowditch’s corn 
was a very patient and careful grower. 
Selecting the best ears, he set a standard, 
and every seed ear had to be up to that 
standard. He spent the greater part of 
his life perfecting this strain of field corn 
and I believe the result worth the care and 
Tabor. Mr. Bowditch uses the stover for 
his cows, but sells the corn to a Boston 
seed house at a good profit. He is strongly 
thinking, however, of starting a direct 
trade with the New England farmers, and 
getting all the profit instead of dividing 
with the middleman as at present. These 
few instances show what can be done if 
we try. They also show that field corn 
can be grown by anyone who wants to do 
so in New England, if he only will try. 
Stable manure will grow splendid corn, 
but as many of us have other uses for this, 
or have not enough to go round to plant 
what acreage we would like to corn, it 
would seem to be to our advantage to buy 
a few tons, or whatever amount we would 
or can afford to buy, and use for just 
this purpose to grow our own corn in¬ 
stead of buying from the West not as 
good an article as we can produce our- 
selves, and use the money we have spent 
for this Western corn for other things 
we need, things which perhaps we need 
badly, but cannot afford under our present 
system of farm management. a. e. p. 
Massachusetts. 
walls. I am quite sure I would not. 
We have just been having one of the 
longest and most profuse rainy spells 
I ever saw, and I just now have ex¬ 
amined the walls outside the house 
R. N.-l.—That is all right, but why de¬ 
pend on fertilizer alone even if the manure 
is needed elsewhere? Our corn ground 
for this season is now green with r\'e tur- 
nips and clover. This was seeded last Fall 
without interfering with last Summer’s 
crops. 
and also in the cellar, where certainly 
if the walls would be wet anywhere 
it would be there. This storm of rain 
and wind has lasted some four days 
and the records show there has been 
between five and six inches of rain. 
The wind has constantly driven the rain 
against the west and southwest sides 
of the house and there is no sign of 
moisture anywhere. Indeed my base¬ 
ment is so dry that I keep seasoned 
lumber in it all the time, and a me¬ 
chanic who has a bench there and does 
a great deal of fine woodwork there 
declares that it is the best place in 
which to keep lumber dry he has ever 
seen. The house is heated with hot 
water from a central plant some half 
mile away, and this necessitates there 
being hot-water pipes overhead in the 
basement which helps to keep the base¬ 
ment dry, but this would not prevent 
the blocks from absorbing the water 
on the outside. There are in this town 
some 10 houses built of concrete blocks, 
one of them being our largest business 
house, and a two-story dwelling is now 
being built. This shows pretty well 
what our people think of block houses. 
No better building material for dwell¬ 
ing houses in my opinion exists. 
Illinois. A. W. FOREMAN. 
A colored man was brought befi 
a P° 1,ce judge charged with steal 
chickens. He pleaded guilty and 
ceived sentence, and the judge asl 
now it was he managed to lift tin 
<- uchens right under the window 
l . le owner’s house when there was 
hog m the yard. “Hit wouldn’t be 
no ,use, judge,” said the'man, “to 
to splane dis thing to you all. Ef j 
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Tea is just as harmful, because it con¬ 
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