THE KUKAE NEW-YORKER 
1910. 
MACHINE FOR STUMP BORING. 
Farmers’ Bulletin No. 331 from the 
U. S. Department of Agriculture con¬ 
tains among other things an account of 
clearing land of stumps. Burning is 
MACHINE FOR STUMP BORING. Fig. 28. 
practiced with good results, especially 
with dry pine. The best way seems to be 
to bore holes into the stump and start 
fire inside. Or, these holes may be used 
for blasting. A machine shown at Figs. 
23 and 29 is used in Mississippi for 
boring the holes. It is a two-inch auger 
welded to a six-foot rod, and mounted 
FRONT VIEW OF STUMP BORER. Fig. 29. 
on a wheeled frame. A crank shaft 
geared to the rod gives power for turn¬ 
ing the auger, while the windlass can be 
used to pull the auger out. This machine 
could be easily made, and with it, a stout 
man can bore many stumps. 
THAT CORN CROP. 
Nothing in all my experience has excited 
greater interest than what I said in regard 
to the corn crop made last Summer by Mr. 
Batts in North Carolina. Betters have 
come to me by the hundred from all parts 
of the country, asking for the address of 
Mr. Batts, as the writers are anxious to 
get some of his corn. I have been obliged 
to reply that I cannot give bis address, as 
I have no right to load him with corre¬ 
spondence. Mr. Batts has been for years 
breeding a selection from Cocke’s Pro¬ 
lific corn, a well-known southern variety, and 
he has a very prolific strain. But that it 
would be wise for people at a distance, espe¬ 
cially north of him, to plant this corn. I 
think is very doubtful, for I believe that it 
would result in disappointment. These let¬ 
ters show how a great many farmers are 
always on the lookout for something new 
instead of carefully breeding the corn they 
have to greater prolificacy. Far-fetched 
seed, especially of corn, will seldom do well 
in any locality. The way to get improved 
strains of corn is to breed them for your¬ 
self, for in getting corn from a distance 
it will take several years of careful breed¬ 
ing to get it acclimated to the locality, and 
the farmer would better take the corn that 
has long been grown in his locality and is 
acclimated there, and by careful selection 
and breeding toward an ideal corn plant 
for his section, get a corn that is better 
for him than any he can get from abroad, 
no matter how good it may be where it 
has been produced. One paper made me say 
that Mr. Batts made 326 bushels of corn 
per acre, and The It. N.-Y. says his crop 
was 226 2-3 bushels of ears. Now the re¬ 
port of the committee that measured the 
land and corn says that he made that many 
bushels of corn, and so says Mr. Batts in 
his published account of the crop. That 
amount of ears would not have been so 
very extraordinary for it has been excelled 
in many a locality. Never in the history 
of our American agriculture has there been 
such great interest in the corn crop. The 
farm papers are now printing pictures of 
the champion ear shown at the National 
Corn Show, and 10 beautiful ears are shown 
in one paper that were grown in Indiana 
and shown at the same show, and sold for 
8335. A good advertisement for the grower. 
But there has been no statement that I 
have seen of the amount of com per acre 
produced in the fields that made these 
champion ears. The ears are beautiful in 
the picture, but it would be more inter¬ 
esting to know how much corn they made, 
and what the cost of making it was. If 
this was demonstrated in regard to every 
specimen shown at the National Corn Show 
we could have learned a great deal in re¬ 
gard to whether the ears that meet the 
score card test have made the most corn 
per acre. Beautiful ears are all right, but 
large and profitable crops are of far more 
importance. Seed corn from a breeder who 
has won more prizes at the ear shows than 
anyone else in this State, made last Sum¬ 
mer big stalks and big ears, but I believe 
the corn bred to prolificacy like the south¬ 
ern prolific varieties would on the same 
land have made fully a third more corn 
with less stalk. The fault with the pretty 
ear breeders is that they have devoted their 
entire attention to the ear, and have got 
that at the expense of productiveness. 
_ W. F. MASSEY. 
ICE FACTORIES FOR COLD COUNTRIES. 
The thing we missed most when we 
moved from town on to our suburban four 
acres was “the ice man.” We. have better 
air, better water, better gas. but the lack 
of ice bothered us until by joining our 
forces with two or three neighbors we pre¬ 
vailed on one of the city ice companies to 
come out with a load on Sunday mornings, 
and by providing ourselves with a storage 
box in the cellar we again revelled in ice 
cream, fruit sherbets, etc., through the hot 
days of Summer, but during the winter we 
must shift for ourselves, so the philosopher 
of the household set his “think box” to 
work with the following result: Three gal¬ 
vanized iron pans were made, 16 inches long 
by 10 wide by seven deep, open on the 
16 by 10 side, with sides slightly flaring. 
When freezing weather comes we fill the 
pans with water and set them outdoors: 
24 hours of sharp weather will freeze them 
solid. To hasten the process, we fill the 
pan half full, and when this freezes we 
till the pans. When frozen hard we carry 
them into the house, turn them bottom side 
up, pour a quart of hot water over each, 
and we have three cakes of beautiful, clear, 
pure ice of perfect size to fit our refrigera¬ 
tor. With this number of pans we have 
no trouble in keeping a good advance stock 
in our storage box. ahead of the needs of 
our refrigerator, making of ice cream, etc. 
The process takes a minimum amount of 
time ; in fact the writer, being a business 
man who goes into town every morning, re¬ 
turning in the evening, needs but a few 
moments daily to run “the ice factory,” 
and from his experience along this line is 
not sure but that where the climate is suit¬ 
able, farmers or suburbanites who are un¬ 
able by other means to store a Summer’s 
supply of ice, could by this method and 
with no great amount of labor, store a suffi¬ 
cient amount to carry them through the 
Summer. Of course, in such case, a much 
larger supply of pans would be necessary, 
also an ice house in which to store the 
product. The reader, however, will find 
that a “three-pan factory,” such as de¬ 
scribed, will give-good returns on the small 
investment. 
Should you have no refrigerator, a stor¬ 
age box can be cheaply made which will 
afford a handy place in which to store the 
ice as made, and will also allow the stor¬ 
ing of meat, milk, butter, etc. My storage 
box is made from %-inch matched flooring, 
measuring outside 44x33x30 inches, inside 
of this is another box measuring 37x26x24 
inches, inside, the cover being also built 
double, with space inside of two to three 
Inches. Build the boxes separate, then place 
a layer of gravel or small stones in bottom 
of large box before placing inside box in 
position; fill space around sides, also space 
in cover, with tightly rammed sawdust or 
shavings. Attach cover strongly with 
hinges along one side, and to make it per¬ 
fect, fasten to front top edge of cover a 
good strong rope, which should run through 
two pulley blocks in the ceiling down to a 
pail properly weighted with stones or sand, 
so that the cover will just remain closed 
when brought down on the top of box. Raise 
the entire outfit a few inches from the floor 
by means of bricks or blocks: there will 
be some drip from melting ice, which should 
be provided for. If set on a sand floor 
probably nothing more than a few auger 
holes in the bottom of each box would be 
necessary. In making my outfit, as it sets 
on a cement floor, I provided a simple zinc 
pan of a size which just filled the bottom 
of the inside box, extending up on the sides 
about two inches, these sides being tacked 
at upper edge all the way around. About 
six inches from one corner was soldered a 
tube about an inch in diameter and of 
proper length to reach to bottom of outside 
box. By raising the opposite end of box 
slightly all drip flows out through pipe and 
is thence carried by means of a second 
longer pipe to adjacent drain. Pans for 
freezing ice slipuld be an inch or two 
shorter than the capacity of refrigerator. 
Michigan. J. b. b. 
“Is your occupation a sedentary one?” 
“No’m; ’tain’t nothin’ so hifalutin’. It’s 
just sittin’ down sewin’ by the day.”— 
Baltimore American. 
BOUGLASSVII.I.E SQUAB CO., DOUGLASSVII.LE, BA. 
After Five Years 
f I A HE success of any article de- 
pends upon the repeat or¬ 
ders, the orders which come be¬ 
cause the article has “ made 
good.” 
No manufacturer can succeed 
without these. 
Here is the kind of letters which 
we are constantly receiving re¬ 
garding Amatite roofing: 
Gentlemen: 
Five years ago we put our 
first roofs of Amatite on. 
Since that time we have 
roofed four other buildings 
with Amatite. 
We wish to say in apprecia¬ 
tion of your roofing that we 
never thought it was possible 
to procure a roofing of such 
quality for so little money. 
Amatite is all you claim for 
it, and in our opinion the best 
of modern roofing materials.} 
Very truly yours, 
DOUGLASSVILLK SQUAB CO. 
The success of Amatite is de¬ 
pendent entirely upon the well- 
known fact that it always proves 
satisfactory. The reasons are 
that it is made of Coal Tar Pitch 
—the greatest waterproofing com- 
pound known, and that it has a 
real mineral surface which needs 
no palnti/ng. 
You have no further expense 
or bother after Amatite is once 
laid. This means a great saving. 
A ready roofing which requires 
painting every two years will cost 
after a while as much for paint as 
for the original roofing. 
Free Sample 
The best argument we can offer 
in favor of Amatite is a sample 
of the goods themselves. When 
a practical man takes a piece of 
Amatite in his hand he recognizes 
at once that it is thicker, heavier, 
stronger and more durable than 
the common kinds. 
Address our nearest office. 
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Most of your neighbors have 
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Box 263 Winchester, Indiana. 
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MONARCH^TEEL 
LStump 
' f ULLEfU 
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Pulls stump 7 fccA 
diameter. Only 
Steel Stump Puller 
} Factory in the world 
■ making their own 
'SteelCastings. Guar- 
i an teed for 500 hors® 
1 power strain. Cata¬ 
logue and discounts. 
ZIMMERMANN STEEL CO., Dept. 123, Lone Tree, I 0 W 8 . 
Than Is delivered byanv 
other style of pump ana 
"to33' “ 
26 to 33%% more’wate 
than is raised by any other pump of the 
same type is produced by the 
"American” Centrifugal Pump 
It’s because the impeller is accur¬ 
ately machined to the casing, there 
is no sudden change of direction of 
the water in pass¬ 
ing thru the pump, 
and the entire me¬ 
chanical efficiency 
contributes direct¬ 
ly to the raising of 
water. “Ameri¬ 
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are guaranteed 
rigidly. Ask for 
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Chas. B. Corwin,(Export)12-25Whitehall St., N.Yj 
