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Worth 
The 
Price! 
Model 5A — Five-pas¬ 
senger Touring Car, 
with electric starting 
and lighting system and 
complete equipment— 
Price f. o. b. Pontiac 
$1700. 
Model 5B— A big classy 
Roadster—with electric 
starting and lighting 
system and complete- 
equipment—Price f .o.b. 
Pontiac $1600._ 
Yes, worth every cent. Your Carter- 
car will give you a dollar’s worth of 
perfect service for every one hun¬ 
dred cents you invest It has un¬ 
limited speeds—power to climb steep 
hills and travel through mud and 
sand—that’s efficiency. A Cartercar 
has a two unit transmission, with¬ 
out gears or clutch, that’s simplic¬ 
ity, making it trouble-proof. And 
with a powerful motor, strong, rigid 
construction throughout this car is reliable, 
absolutely reliable under the most trying 
wear. This is the car you’ll buy, if you are 
after the best value for your money. 
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A Price Easy 
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Hilly Country— 
Simple—Few Parts 
— Medium Power 
LIGHT- STRONG - BIG CAPACITY 
It will soon pay for itself, Mr. Thresherman. It will serve you faithfully. 
II';'''/ Don’t invest in one of the bridge-breakets, the kind that cost so much to haul and 
operate. Figure on a Gray and compare the big saving in first cost. You’ll get 
W the same capacity and durability In a lighter machine if you buy one of our 
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SONS, 14 South Street, Middletown Springs. Vermont 
Gray Threshers 
Gray Horse Powers 
Gray Saw Machines 
Gray Ensilage Cutters 
Gray Gasoline Elngines 
A. W. GRAY’S 
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FRUIT BASKETS AND CRATES 
OF ALL KIIS/OS 
Write for free Circular 
and Price-List. 
WEBSTER BASKET CO., 
Box 20, Webster, Monroe Co., N.Y 
409 Pearl Street New York City 
B0R0WAX 
(Keg. U. S. Pat. Off.) 
Keeps borers out of peach and all other 
Fruit Trees. Why wait two or three 
years to learn of its value and during the 
interval lose a lot of money by borer in¬ 
jury. Better send for a booklet at once 
that tells all about it—mailed free. May, 
June and July are best months for apply¬ 
ing Borowax. Liberal terms to agents 
to Introduce Borowax—the Fruit Grower’s 
Friend—to fruit growers. 
Borowax Manufacturing Co., 
Box 262, Little Silver, N. J. 
Profit 
Get Free Book. Banish disease and blight 
— kill insects. Use sprayer that does most 
wo u r £ Brown’s Auto Spray N i° 
Has Auto Pop Nozzle. Most powerful, 
efficient, economical for light work. 40 
mzes and styles—hand and power outfits. _ 
B tows'I Non-Clog Atomic Nozile for larger spray era. 
THE E. C. BROWN CO. 
<8 Jay Street_Rochester. N. Y. 
STANDARD QT. BASKET 
AND BERRY CRATE 
Bushel ami Half Bushel Banket*, FLe. 
Shipments made promptly on receipt 
of order. Catalogue free. Addrean 
H. H. AULTFATHER, Minerva, O. 
EES for the FARM 
Need little attention and pay Mr profits. If you are 
Interested in them »end for a sample copy of Glean¬ 
ings In Bee Culture. Also a bee supply catalog 
THE A. L ROOT CO.. Box 350, Medina. Ohio 
SLUG-SHOT 
USED FROM OCEAN TO OCEAN FOR 29 YEARS 
Sold by Seed Dealers of America 
Saves Currants, Potatoes, Cabbage, Melons, FTowers, Trees and 
Shrubs from Insects. Put up in popular packages at popular 
prices. Write for free pamphlet on Bugs and Blights, etc., to 
B. HAMMOND, • Fishkill-on-Hudson, New York 
Leveling and Grading Ditches. 
J. T. II., Mullica Hill, N. J .—Would you 
give some device for leveling and grading 
land, where the grade or fall is irregular? 
Ans. —Fig. 246 shows a combination 
leveling and plumbing device for grad¬ 
ing the bottom of a ditch, according to 
any grade for laying tile. No. I is a 
straight piece of wood 2x4x48 inches 
long. Nos. 2, 3, 4 and 5 are uprights, 
four of them, 1x3x79)4 inches. No. 6 
is a triangular block at top of uprights. 
At top of the four uprights they are 
halved together, both sides, with block 6 
between, and all are securely held to¬ 
gether with four machine bolts i 5 nx4 t 4 
inches. At the bottom the four uprights 
2, 3, 4 and 5 are placed each side of No. 
1, at ends and held in position by eight 
machine bolts -i 5 sx4)4 inches and form 
an isosceles triangle. No. 7 is a piece 
of steel J4x2x60 inches, attached with 
countersunk screws to bottom of No. 1 
to prevent wear. No. 7 should he point¬ 
ed and sharp at ends, also curved for 
cutting a round groove for tile. No. 8 
is a screw eye. No. 9 is cord with plumb 
bob shown at 10. No. 11 is a steel seg¬ 
ment (circular) and scale graduated 
(full size to illustrate) by A inch up to 
one inch, each side of (0) zero. Also a 
reliable carpenter’s or mason’s level, 
shown at 12, can be placed on No. 1 and 
held in position by blocks and clamps. 
Level bubble is shown at 13. No. 14 
illustrates an adjusting block to be placed 
under level at 15 or 16 for whatever tile 
grade may be desired. 
It should be noticed that No. 1 with 
cutters is 60 inches long or 1-20 of 100 
feet. Cord and plumb bob together are 
also 60 inches long. If a )4-inch block 
is placed under end of steel cutters A or 
B, the plumb bob will register the same 
amount )4 inch, but on the opposite side 
of segment scale B or A, respectively, 
from zero. One-half inch rise in five 
feet would be two inches rise in 20 feet 
or 10 inches rise in 100 feet, or a grade 
of ,008)4- The adjusting block must be 
specially fitted and adapted to the length 
of level for registering and determining 
various grades. Adjusting block . lould 
hold level bubble at center when running 
grades. With a little studying, figuring 
and practicing any ordinary grade can 
he worked out by either the plumb bob 
or level and run fairly accurate. By plac¬ 
ing level 2'/ 2 feet higher, on uprights, 
the level can be seen and watched better, 
and is more serviceable. With only a 
little dirt to take out of bottom of ditch 
the device can be pulled up grade, leav¬ 
ing ditch clean and ready for tile. 
T. E .MARTIN. 
Crimson Clover With Wheat. 
C. W. K., Lacey Spring, Va .—Will Crim¬ 
son clover sown with wheat on corn ground 
in the Fall injure the wheat crop before 
it can be harvested? I want something to 
turn under with the wheat stubble the next 
Fall and then sow to wheat and grass. 
Ans. —Crimson .iover is very com¬ 
monly sown here with wheat for a hay 
crop to cut when the clover is in bloom 
without regard to the condition of the 
wheat, the idea being that the wheat will 
help the curing of the clover. At pres¬ 
ent I see this wheat thriving a around 
me and looking well, while on fields of 
wheat intended for grain, and in which 
there is no clover, have been turning red 
in the cooi wet weather, and it looks 
as though the clover is doing no harm 
to the wheat. I have never sown the 
Crimson clover with wheat intended for 
grain, but in North Carolina the ordi¬ 
nary Red clover, sown with wheat in the 
Fall, will often be in bloom before the 
wheat is harvested, and I have never 
seen any damage done. While I know 
of no carefully conducted comparative 
experiments with Crimson clover and 
without, I do not believe that any se¬ 
rious damage will be done to- the wheat. 
The clover will probably he dead by the 
time the wheat is harvested. If I had 
that field I would turn the dead clover 
as soon as the wheat has been taken off, 
and would sow cow peas on the land in 
preparation for the wheat again. Mow 
these for hay, and then do not replow 
for the wheat, for the plowing for the 
peas will be equal to the usual fallow, 
but disk the land finely three or four 
inches deep and you will get better re¬ 
sults than by replowing that late. Give 
the peas a dressing of 300 pounds an 
acre of acid phosphate and put them in 
with a wheat drill set to sow two bush¬ 
els of wheat an acre and you will get a 
better and more uniform stand, and the 
growing of the peas will greatly improve 
the chances for another wheat crop. 
W. F. MASSEY. 
Who Owns the Fence ? 
F. Kew York.—A sells B a farm on a 
contract adjoining A. The contract spec! 
lies that B shall build and maintain a lin • 
fence the entire length between A and I!, 
as long as grass grows and water runs! 
When B paid for his farm A had this 
fence clause put in the deed, and it has 
been on record for over 30 years. Now 
there has been a public highway built, 
which runs the entire length of La farm, 
just as close to the fence ns they couki 
work without getting their horse hurt on 
the wire fence. Since the road has been 
built B says tile fence does not belong 
to him, and can A make him still keep 
the fence up? 
. Ans. —A can still compel B to main¬ 
tain the fence. The building of the new 
highway does not change B’s covenant 
to keep the line fence in repair. Tile 
road having been built wholly on B’s 
land, the original fence still remains the 
line fence. However, B can recover the 
expense he is put to in building and 
maintaining the additional fence, under 
Sec. 227 of the Highway Law of New 
York, which reads as follows: “When¬ 
ever a highway or private road shall he 
laid along the division line between lands 
of two or more persons, and wholly 
upon one side of the line, and the land 
upon both sides is cultivated or im¬ 
proved, the person owning or occupying 
the lands adjoining such highway or 
road shall be paid for building and * 
maintaining such additional fence as 
they may be required to build or main¬ 
tain, by reason of the laying out and 
opening such highway or road; which 
damages shall he ascertained and de¬ 
termined in the same manner that other 
damages are ascertained and determined 
in the laying out of highways or private 
roads.” 
Size of Acre; Value of Hay. 
IIow many feet each way constitute one 
acre of land outside measurement, and what 
is hay wortli per acre standing in field? 
Brooklyn, N. Y. j. h. 
An acre of land contains 43.560 square 
feet. A field approximately 208 feet eight 
inches square is an acre. In surveying land 
is measured by level chain, so that a sld 
hill field yields “more land to the acre" 
than a level one. The value of an acre of 
standing grass depends on the quality, 
quantity and accessibility of the field. From 
$8 to .$10 per acre would cover the field 
value of many meadows. 
THE CULTURE OF SOY BEANS. 
t notice a good deal in farm papers about 
sowing Soy benns in with silo corn. Will 
you advise how much of the beans to mix 
with 12 quarts of silo corn per acre, and 
will the beans stand up to be cut by corn 
harvester? I wisli to try drilling corn this 
year, two rows together; that is. two drill 
tubes open together, and 40 iuehes apart 
two more. I saw this advised in some 
farm paper recently as being better for 
growing larger tonnage per acre. 
s. L. P. 
Genoa, N. Y. 
I cannot do better than repeat the ad¬ 
vice given on page 640: Use one peek 
of beans to one bushel of corn, mix them 
thoroughly on tile floor, then place them 
in a seven-tooth drill, stopping all hut 
tlie first, center and last holes. This makes 
tile rows 28 inches apart. Proceed to plant 
the mixture the same as you would were 
it all corn. Care for it the same, harvest 
and cut the same, then you have the 
beaus thoroughly mixed through the silage. 
Do not get the mistaken idea that the beau 
is going to run up the corn or lie on the 
ground. The nature of the Soy bean is to 
stand erect, and it is self-supporting. 1 
never had any experience in planting in 
rows two drill tubes together, then skip 
40 inches, but it may he all right. There 
will be no trouble about harvesting the 
beans witli the corn harvester. Sow the 
same amount of the corn and bean mixture 
you would if it were all corn. 
A. COLI.SOX. 
Farm Management by G. F. War¬ 
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business principles as applied to farmin'; 
Among the subjects discussed are types oi 
farming, diversified and specialized farmin'-, 
intensive and extensive farming, maintain¬ 
ing fertility, etc. The chapters on farm 
records and accounts will be found e«pe< ■ 
ally interesting, and there is much t«> i" 
terest thinking men in what is said about 
farm lay-out, and the question of buy n . 
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