1910. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
381 
AN OHIO PEACH GROWER’S HOME. 
At Fig. 151 I show a picture of our 
farm house. This house, which was 
completed two years ago. is stone veneer 
six inches thick. It is buff-colored native 
limestone, quarried at Marblehead, O., 
about six miles distant, rock-faced, and 
dressed down to about six inches. The 
stone was dressed on the place, laid up 
in lime mortar tempered with Portland 
cement, and pointed off with colored 
cement, bluish-black. It has a red tile 
roof. The reception room, dining room 
and bath room are finished in quarter- 
sawed oak, and the living room in birch 
mahoganized. The guest room is white 
and mahogany, while the other rooms 
are finished in Georgia pine. The house 
is heated with a hot-water system and 
lighted with acetylene gas. I own and 
farm 118 acres, and with the exception 
of about 10 acres rented, my tenant and 
the wind, and we have no pumps to get 
out of order. Peach growing on this 
peninsula, eastern part of Ottawa Co., 
Ohio, has been a success principally for 
the following reasons: Location; Lake 
Erie and its tributaries bordering on the 
north, and Sandusky Bay washing its 
southern shore. Proximity to a large 
body of water retards blossoms in the 
Spring, when danger of frost is not so 
great. Second, good, well-drained lime¬ 
stone soil. Third, nearby markets. The 
fruit is run through graders—usually 
three grades—the grade stamped on the 
handle of basket, also the grower’s name. 
The earlier varieties are packed in one- 
fifth bushel baskets with netting for 
covers. The later varieties are packed 
in bushel baskets with netting for covers. 
The fruit is sold at auction to the high¬ 
est bidder. Most of the fruit is shipped 
to Ohio towns, while Detroit and some 
RESIDENCE OF AN OHIO PEACH GROWER. Fig. 151. 
I work the place without any extra help, 
except during the peach harvest. I have 
from 50 to 60 acres in peaches, also raise 
some pears. The rest is devoted to gen¬ 
eral farming, corn, oats and hay, and 
some pasture. I set my first peach or¬ 
chard in 1882, and have been setting 
peach trees every year since. I har¬ 
vested the first crop in 1886, and in 24 
years have only two failures to record— 
in 1892 and 1897—when I did not see a 
peach. My orchards occupy the higher 
portions of the farm. The soil is mostly 
a stiff clay, while some is gravelly. I 
set the trees 16 feet apart each way, 
and raise corn for the first two years 
in the orchard, except when I take out 
an old orchard and reset to trees; I 
would let the trees occupy the land and 
raise no crop among them, keeping the 
trees well cultivated and mulched with 
stable manure. 
I start to plow in the orchards shortly 
after the spraying is done in the Spring, 
and then use disks and harrows to pul¬ 
verize the soil, after which I plow back 
to the trees and then use disks and har¬ 
rows again, and keep the soil well stirred 
all through the Summer. Shortly after 
the foliage has fallen in the Fall, I start 
to prune, heading back and thinning 
out the branches and cutting out the 
centers to let the bright American sun 
in, which gives color to the fruit. I 
trim all Winter whenever the weather 
permits, snow or no snow. When trim¬ 
ming is done I get the brush out, whole 
windrows of brush, with a homemade 
rake something like the old-fashioned 
wooden hay rakes, or a good strong 
spring-tooth harrow works well too. 
1 he brush should be out and burned be¬ 
fore the first of April, as spraying must 
be done before they blossom. We boil 
our own lime and sulphur mixture, and 
use compressed air for spraying, and 
have for the past six years. The boiler 
that boils the mixture runs an engine 
and an air compressor. We have two gal¬ 
vanized iron tanks holding about 120 gal¬ 
lons mounted on a wagon; one is filled 
with the mixture and the other is 
charged with compressed air up to 160 
degrees. We have two leads of hose 
attached to tank, and always spray with 
of the eastern cities get quite a good 
share. Since the advent of the scale 
prices have nearly doubled. 
Ottawa Co., Ohio. w. G. miller. 
Power of Engine. 
O. IP. C., Marion, Ya .—Will you tell me 
what power a 20 horse-power gasoline engine, 
to run on steel, ought to generate on a 
grade not exceeding three per cent? What 
tonnage will such an engine move? 
Ans. —It is not possible to give a spe¬ 
cific answer to such a question. An en¬ 
gine developing 20 effective horse-power 
is capable of lifting vertically, against 
gravity, three-fourths of a ton at the rate 
of 440 feet per minute or five miles per 
hour. On a three per cent grade, leaving 
all friction out of consideration, the 
load moved at the rate of five miles per 
hour could not exceed 25 tons gross 
weight, which would include weight of 
engine and carriers, but the engine would 
be required to do, in addition to the 
work necessary to overcome the force 
of gravity on the three per cent grade, 
whatever is required to overcome all 
friction and the amount of this cannot 
be stated. The friction on the roadbed 
itself would be relatively small be¬ 
cause, on a wagon, on a good roadbed 
such as Belgian block pavement, it does 
not exceed 28 to 44 pounds per ton. On 
a steel rail, well laid, it would probably 
be less than half this. r. h. king. 
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A Problem Solved 
Home Made Ga\§ Light 
Ffrom Cro^hed Storie and Water 
V OLUME for volume, this rural gas 
actually gives twelve times more 
light than the best city gas. 
Like city gas, it is used in handsome 
brass or bronze chandeliers and fixtures 
of endless variety. 
A simple twist of the wrist turn* on 
a brilliant flood of light in any room 
in the house day or night. 
It has already driven the oil lamp, 
with its grease, smoke and smell, out of 
more than 176,000 town and suburban 
homes. 
Takes some member of every one of 
these 176,000 homes fifteen minutes 
once a month to make all the gas the 
household can use. 
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The magic is all in the wonderful gas- 
producing stone. 
This stone is manufactured in huge 
electric furnaces, in a temperature of 
over 6,000 degrees Fahrenheit. 
When ready to use it looks and feels 
like crushed granite and is then known 
as Union Carbide. 
Union Carbide is packed at the fac¬ 
tory in sheet steel cans in which it may 
be kept for years a .I is distributed 
through warehouses located all over the 
country. 
In these packages it is safer to handle 
and store than common coal, as it will 
not burn and can’t explode. 
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The gas which this wonderful stone 
yields is genuine Acetylene. 
And Acetylene, carried in iron pipes 
to ornamental fixtures, burns with a 
soft, brilliant, pure white light. 
On account of its 
color, it is the easiest 
of all lights on the 
eyes, and it is a boon 
to those afflicted with 
eye strain troubles. 
It is not poisonous 
and one might sleep 
all night in a Toom 
with an open burner without harm. 
For these reasons it is used exten¬ 
sively as an illuminant in hospitals, 
factories, mines, lighthouses and 
government army posts. 
To produce Acetylene it is only neces¬ 
sary to mix Union Carbide with plain 
water in a small tank-like machine that 
is usually set in one corner of the base¬ 
ment. 
The formula is simple and the work 
can be handled by most any school boy. 
Once a month he must fill the little 
machine with Union Carbide—the ma¬ 
chine does the rest—it makes gas only 
■when the lights are burning and stops 
making gas when they are turned off. 
Anybody that can cut and fit pipes 
can install the generator, pipes and fix¬ 
tures in two days without injuring walls 
or floors. 
With such an installation you can 
make this glorious beautifying light in 
your own home for less money than same 
amount of light from kerosene would 
cost. 
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If you happen to live in the country, 
you can do as thousands of farmers 
have done—run the gas pipes to lights 
placed on your porches, in your horse 
and cow barn, or even in your barn 
yard, and have all of them fixed up to 
light with the pull of a chain attached 
to the fixture. 
Such a lighting scheme is not only a 
boon to the housewife and children, but 
it’s a mighty handy convenience for 
the man of the house when he must do 
his chores after dark, or when he is 
called out in the night to attend a sick 
animal. 
All these lights will be permanently 
fastened to ceilings, walls or posts, anil 
enclosed in tight globes. 
For this reason they 
are many times safer 
than lamps or lan¬ 
terns that are so of¬ 
ten tipped over with 
disastrous results. * 
Write us today how 
many rooms you 
have. Then we can 
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it will cost to make this light yourself. 
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Chicago, Illinois. 
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