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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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THAT STOVE-HEATED GREENHOUSE. 
In a previous article I described the 
making of a small greenhouse and the 
management of it, and additional sash 
on cold frames, and as I notice some in¬ 
quiry in regard to heating small green¬ 
houses, I would emphasize that where 
the object is simply to grow vegetable 
plants for early crops outdoors, and to 
grow them in boxes or flats, for sale, 
this simple method of using a wood 
burning stove for heating is inexpensive 
and altogether unsatisfactory. I have 
done it for years, and with different 
kinds of stoves. A coal stove is unsafe 
on account of danger to the plants 
from escaping gas. The most satis¬ 
factory one I have had was the last 
one, being almost airtight, with sheet- 
iron above the fire box and a slide near 
the bottom to regulate the draft, and 
the whole top lifting off, so one could 
put in large chunks. It takes a little 
practice and different kinds of wood 
to keep an even fire without frequent 
attention. When the fire would go 
down pretty low and it was a bit cool 
when I got out first thing in the morn¬ 
ing, I would use some small, rather 
dry wood, and open the draft, and 
immediately I would have a roaring 
fire. Then when it looked like a bright 
sunshiny day, and little fire might be 
required, I would calculate so the fire 
would go down about the time the sun 
would warm up the house sufficiently; 
but if cold I would keep the stove pretty 
well filled, using large chunks and regu¬ 
lating the draft as required. I always 
calculated to have a good fire in the 
evening, so I could check the draft on 
leaving, after filling the stove pretty 
well, and then before going to bed I 
would fill the stove with some knots and 
green wood clear to the top, and shut 
the draft almost entirely. I can only 
recall a few extremely cold nights when 
I got up about 2 o’clock to look after 
the fire. 
With 30 feet of stove pipe carried 
along under the benches there is 
enough radiation so that ordinarily 
there is not much heat wasted. To 
avoid danger from fire one has to be 
sure to have good stovepipe, well fitted 
together, and securely wired to both 
those eggplants below grown from 
seed sown late in February, now in 
four-inch boxes ready to go to the 
field. Aside from sash there was 
practically no cash outlay required, 
either in the making or heating of the 
house, except that for the cheap stove 
used, and the stovepipe. Our sash 
were all 3 x 6 feet, three rows of 10- 
inch glass. The wider ones are very 
objectionable to my mind. After handl¬ 
to me as though they would last a life¬ 
time used as I used those, and to pay 
for their first cost once a year. I used 
a putty machine to put on the putty, 
but made the putty myself, using whit¬ 
ing with an admixture of white lead 
and linseed oil, thinned so it would 
work through the machine. I bought 
10 x 12-A glass direct from the factory 
at $1.95 per box, one box glazing about 
five sash. c. weckesser. 
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EGGPLANTS IN STOVE-HEATED GREENHOUSE. 
sides, so there is no possibility of its 
getting out of place. Also to put the 
stove down in a hole so the pipe can 
rise a foot or so till it gets to the 
chimney, and so the stove is away from 
all woodwork. The pipe will need to 
be taken down once or twice in a sea¬ 
son to empty the soot. 
If anyone doubts that good plants 
can be grown with so simple an ar¬ 
rangement, then let them take a look at 
ing the 3 x 6-inch size, if you will try. 
alone, to handle the 3j4 x 6-inch size, 
and manipulate them in various ways 
as required, I think you will soon show 
a similar preference unless you have 
some extra length of arms. 
We got one lot of sash for $1.05 each. 
These were painted one coat, probably 
to cover up the poor material used. 
Another firm charged us $15 per dozen, 
unpainted and certainly used the very 
best of material, clear cypress, and after 
being well painted and glazed they look 
MARYLAND MILLERS’ RIGHTS. 
E. F. M., Howard Co., Md .—Has a man 
who runs a country milling business and 
also crushes grain at so much a hundred 
pounds the right to dispose of cob corn 
left there to be ground without notifying 
the owner? When calling for same after a 
lapse of from two to three months his clerk 
stated the corn became moldy, the bags 
were all torn by rats and mice, so they 
threw the feed out. 
Ans. — I think that under the law the 
miller in the case may be held liable 
for the value of the grain destroyed. 
The usual practice in this part of the 
country, however, is to call for the grain 
as soon after it is ground as possible. 
Most of our local mills have little extra 
storage room for keeping grain any 
length of time. They also are not pro¬ 
vided against destruction from rats or 
dampness. I realize that the above 
instance may seem a very careless way 
of doing business, but I have found 
from experience that if you want things 
of this sort well attended to, you look 
after it yourself. Most of our millers 
do not send notice when they have 
finished grinding for you but do expect 
that it will be done within a reasonable 
time and that you will call for it at 
your earliest convenience. As to throw- 
ing the stuff out, that was going pretty 
far, but I expect was justified by cus¬ 
tomary practice if not by the law. I 
would advise in the future that. you 
have some understanding with the mil¬ 
ler as to when grain would be ready 
for delivery and call for the same 
promptly. Under the circumstances, to 
leave grain on the hands of the miller 
for two or three months was quite as 
bad practice as the miller’s throwing the 
spoiled grain away without due notice. 
Neither party was justified from a busi¬ 
ness point of view, no matter what the 
law is in the matter. r. b. 
THE TIME FOR CORN PLANTING IS AT HAND 
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CORN MANURE 
You will remember that in the great Corn Contest of The American Agriculturist, open to the entire 
country, the largest crop grown by fertilizers alone, 213 bushels shelled Corn, was grown with Mapes Corn 
Manure, 800 pounds to the acre. 
FIFTY YEARS’ UNPARALLELED RECORD, BOTH IN THE FIELD AND WITH THE EXPERIMENT STATIONS 
THE MAPES MANURES 
ABSOLUTELY CHOICEST OF MATERIALS, SEASONING, AND BEST METHODS OF MANUFACTURE 
AVAILABILITY WITHOUT ACIDITY NO ROCK OR ACID PHOSPHATES USED 
IN THE FIELD 
The record of The Mapes Manures in tlie field is too well known among our thousands of customers and friends, and with us we are a-lad to sir the tprm< in* nrartiraii-cr 
interchangeable, as most of our good old customers have become our friends to require more than a reference to it, s - 1110 terms> are pracncaliy 
WITH THE EXPERIMENT STATIONS 
We are equally proud of our Record with the Stations. There may at times have been an occasional chance analysis which was not quite what we would have liked to 
have seen, and not as we believe fairly representative of our goods, but with the grand average we have no fault to find. 
This is in spite of the fact that Station methods and valuations from the very nature of the ease must be broadly general to applv to the general average of the class of 
goods examined, and can therefore never be expected to do entire justice to the user of particularly choice materials and unusual methods' of manufacture. " 
From the Annual Report of the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, FERTILIZERS. 1912: 
. . V MAPES FORMULA AND PERUVIAN GUANO CO.’S fifteen brands all fully meet their guarantees, with the exception of No. 553, in which a deficiency of 0.37 per cent of 
Potash is tully offset by an overrun of 0.7 per cent. Nitrogen.” J * 
So strong a statement is not and could not be made of any firm which had an equal or greater number of brands. 
From Annual Bulletin No. 143, December, 1912, Massachusetts Agricultural Experiment Station. Inspection of Commercial Fertilizers: 
(It publishes a table giving summary of results of analysis of complete fertilizers as compared with manufacturers’ guarantees). 
“ MAPES FORMULA AND PERUVIAN GUANO CO. Number of brands analyzed, 13; number equal to guarantee in commercial value, 18.” 
brandsTanVliis^he^said 16 Mapes Brands are found to be equal to their guarantee in commercial value, and of no other company having an equal or a greater number of 
. It publishes another table bearing on the Nitrogen in the different brands analyzed. The Mapes F. & P. G. Co. show 90.26* as their percentage Activity of Total Nitrogen, 
\ men is the essential point. No other concern having an equal number or greater number of brands analyzed has anything like so high a percentage Activity of Total Nitrogen. 
offered^fo'r necessary say Hiat Ihe Mapes Manures have always been, and will always continue to be, while under the same management, far above the average of fertilizers 
management, it is certainly interesting that not onlv have the Maposes continued successively in the business for three generations, grandfather, father 
‘ p‘ . ,u ‘ s - who have been associated with the Mapeses from the start, follow the same identical record in the business, grandfather, father and son, successively, and 
» U j neiids and customers have a better guarantee than this familv management that everything has been done and will continue to he done to make the Mapes 
manures as good as the present knowledge of fertilizer science permits for the crops for which they are intended. 
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