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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
April 16, 
FARMERS’ CLUB 
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FROST PROOF ROOT HOUSE. 
C. E. S., Olympia, Wash. —How can I 
fix m.v root house to keep out frost? The 
walls are eight inches concrete, double 
doors and windows. It freezes inside at 
20° above zero. I have thought of lining 
with paper and wood, leaving an air space 
between walls and the lining. Twelve to 
16° above zero is about as cold as it ever 
gets here. 
Ans.—I t is difficult to give satisfac¬ 
tory advice regarding remedying the 
difficulties in this root house without 
knowing whether its walls are entirely 
above ground and what is the construc¬ 
tion of the roof and ceiling. We infer 
that the building may be entirely above 
ground and that the ceiling is of wood. 
If this is the case, the ceiling ought to 
be as nearly as possible airtight, so that 
during the Winter there could be as 
little escape of warm air as possible, 
and there ought to be above the ceiling 
some good insulation. If there is space 
between the joists carrying the ceiling 
and a floor above that, or simply a roof, 
the space between the joists should be 
filled, so that the ceiling is covered with 
some non-conductor, like sawdust, to a 
depth of at least a foot. If the walls 
are entirely above ground and it were 
practicable to grade up on three sides 
to a height of two or three feet, with 
an easy sloping grade, this would give 
very material protection against frost, 
as this would make the floor of the root 
house warmer and enable it to con¬ 
tribute its heat to maintain the warmth 
of the storeroom. As the floor is the 
only source of heat in the storehouse,, 
it ought to be the best of conductors, 
which would be the case if it were con¬ 
crete. If the floor is dry earth or if 
it is covered with wood, either condi¬ 
tion would tend to make the room cold, 
as it would prevent the rise of the 
ground heat into the room. A layer of 
matched boards nailed to furring strips 
of %-inch lumber, or two thicknesses 
of roofing paper of good quality, would 
shut the air of the root house away 
from the cold walls and make it very 
materially warmer. The difficulty likely 
to be encountered, with such a remedy, 
is the rotting of the wood from moisture 
drawing through the solid concrete wall 
by capillarity, during the rainy season, 
as solid concrete walls, unless water¬ 
proofed, are quite absorbent of moisture. 
If the furring strips were laid against 
strips of acid-proofed and water-proofed 
paper, they might be sufficiently pro¬ 
tected against dampness, so that, with 
good ventilation for the root house, 
there would be little danger from rot¬ 
ting. It should not be overlooked that 
proper provision should be made so 
that the heat of the floor can be made 
effective in warming the room. 
F. H. KING. 
THE PHEASANT AND THE FARMER. 
A Defence of the Bird. 
Noticing what D. J. D. has to say in 
regard to damage done by pheasants, I 
wish to put in a word. I have raised 
these birds from eggs, and my experience 
has been that, while extremely hardy, they 
are very dainty about their eating. I 
don't believe the pheasant did the damage 
any more than my little boy cut down 
my rose bush, as .instanced, I bought my 
little six-year-old a jackknife at his most 
earnest request. Some weeks after I 
noticed my rose bush, a fine specimen of 
Dorothy Perkins, cut off in a ragged man¬ 
ner just as a small boy might do with a 
dull knife. .Two large canes carefully 
trained to a trellis had parted company 
with the root growth a few inches above 
the ground. Like D. J. D., I was about 
at the bursting point, and charged the lit¬ 
tle fellow with the crime. He stoutly de¬ 
nied it, but how else did it happen? Well, 
the rabbits did it, as the future plainly 
showed, yet, like D. J. D., I didn’t see it 
that way at the first because of suspicious 
circumstances. Two years ago I had a 
very fine garden. While not exactly a 
counterpart of the Garden of Eden, yet 
it surely would have been to the kind of 
pheasant D. .T. D. refers to. Popcorn 
leaned over, showing the yellow tips. Beans, 
tomatoes and everything else that would 
have tempted a barnyard fowl sprawled in 
profusion. One day 1 frightened up from 
almost under my feet a male pheasant. 
“Now. Mr. Pheasant, I'll see what you 
are here for,” thought I, but not a trace 
of damage could I find, even though I was 
perfectly willing to share with him. No. 
these birds, like quail, are no damage 
whatever, and I would not advertise my 
section of the country as being so poverty 
stricken that the pheasant were reduced 
to a diet of peas. Let us have an open 
season on English sparrows and gttn toters 
all^-the year around. What a sight! A 
hi kjtb'oad -shouldered giant of the genus 
hofflo out to get a chance at a meadow 
lark or our beloved Bob White, who has 
whistled merrily all Summer for us, and 
raised his family on noxious insects. It 
is hard to remember the Beatitudes when 
forced to witness such a slaughter of the 
innocents. The railroad magnates warn 
of famine and the Good Book prophecies 
famine, and who shall say we don’t de¬ 
serve it, when we tolerate the slaughter 
of our friends and allies? mrs. c. l. v. 
Ohio. 
Pheasants in Columbia Co., N. Y. 
At a regular session of Columbia Co. 
Pomona Grange, held in Linlithgo, N. Y., 
on Saturday, March 19, the writer was 
appointed as one of the committee “for 
the good of the order.” We received in¬ 
formation that the member of Assembly 
of our county had the disposal of settings 
of pheasants' eggs, to be given free to 
any applicant in said county, which, after 
being hatched, and reared to a certain age, 
were to be liberated and protected by the 
game laws, which imposes a fine of $10 
for any person shooting, or in any way 
disturbing them. The committee, after con¬ 
sidering the matter, concluded that they 
would become as great, or a greater nui¬ 
sance than the protected jack rabbit or 
the San Jos6 scale, so offered the follow¬ 
ing, which was indorsed by the Grange: 
“Resolved, That our member of Assembly 
be requested not, under any consideration, 
to put out pheasant eggs in Columbia 
County.” 
We have seen many communications from 
farmers in different parts of the country, 
and the consensus of opinion seems to be 
that the pheasant, at liberty, is a great 
pest and a nuisance, worse than the crow. 
We think that the farmer is being im¬ 
posed upon enough now by the “city sport 
loafer” and pot hunters, without giving 
them anv further opportunity. 
EITOENF, DEWITT. 
SHIRLEY PRESIDENT 
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TheC. A. EDGARTON MFG.CO. 
801 Main St., Shirley, Mass. 
32 Inches of Alfalfa 
In 60 days from seeding, at Ghent, N.Y., by the 
Farmogerm Method 
Geouqe T. Powell, President of the Agricul¬ 
tural Experts’ Association, Ghent, N. Y., says; 
“I put in a pieee of alfalfa at Orchard Farm the 
past summer that has made a most remarkable 
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Without doubt the most valuable of all the new 
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-PAPER P0TS= 
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