1910. 
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A DEPENDABLE FARM SLED. 
Every farm should be provided with 
one or more good sleds, and one built as 
shown in the drawing will prove very 
satisfactory. It is easily built and sub¬ 
stantial, as there are no tenons to make 
nor mortises, both of which require 
much labor and seriously weaken the 
sled. The frame of the sled is made of 
4x4’s, excepting the blocks marked X, 
which are 4x6x10 inches. Upon these 
blocks rest the cross pieces AAA, and 
upon these the upper part of 
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HANDY FARM SLED. Fio. 401. 
frame rests, all being bolted together with 
y 2 -inch bolts. Besides the holts spikes 
should be driven through the blocks X, 
to prevent their turning should the bolts 
become loose. Next come the diagonal 
brace B and the crosspiece at the rear 
end of the sled, just behind the stand¬ 
ards. The top of the sled may be 
floored over if desired. The tongue is 
bolted loosely on top of the front cross¬ 
piece, and braced with chains or heavy 
strap-iron braces. Iron soles should be 
used if possible, and good ones are 
easily made of old wagon tires. 
This sled, as described and shown in 
diagrams, should give satisfactory ser¬ 
vice, but it may be made higher if de¬ 
sired, though greater height is not 
needed unless to be used in stony or 
stumpy fields. Crosspieces XXX may 
be 2x6 instead of 4x4’s, when two bolts 
at each joint can be used and the diago¬ 
nal brace B be dispensed with. The 
bottom of the sled frame is nine feet 
long and the top from standard to stand¬ 
ard is 12 feet. 
Hillsboro, O. w. E. D. 
THE WORK OF A CORN BINDER. 
I notice on page 854 statements by 
D. P. B. that do not seem at all like 
facts as produced by experience here. 
We have owned and hired corn binding 
machines similar to the description 
given, but we have never seen one that 
will work well if driven down through 
a piece of corn same as the writer de¬ 
scribes, as you would have to back fur¬ 
row in plowing. The machines we have 
here are heavy; are not at all suited to 
soft ground. We have no hillsides here 
where our machines work at all satis¬ 
factorily. We have never found a team 
of three horses that could cut four acres 
in one day under good conditions, while 
D. P. B. says in his locality they cut six 
or seven acres. A good man can cut 
with an ordinary sickle one acre per day, 
and cut it too within an inch of the 
ground, while every corn binder we have 
ever seen will average to cut stalks 
from four to eight inches high. This 
is a bad waste, and furnishes quite an 
inconvenience in plowing. We had a boy 
18 years old cut a measured acre for 
several days in succession, and we can 
prove this by affidavits if necessary. We 
feel that the three to six inches of corn 
stubble left on the ground with a ma¬ 
chine is worth $1.50 to $1.75 per acre; 
this would pay the man for cutting. 
The reason that I write this is that I 
appreciate having all farmers prosper, 
and would not wish to know of them 
spending their money for machinery 
which would be of no service to them. 
Maine. j. henry rines. 
“I often think you can tell people’s 
characters by their gardens.” “I do, too. 
There’s Miss Matchit, who is as merce¬ 
nary as she can be, and the prominent 
plants in her garden are moneywort and 
marigold.”—Baltimore American. 
Shot-Hole Borer. 
C. TF. M., Burlington, N. J .—I have a 
four-year-old peach tree affected with the 
borer beetle. Would you let me know if 
there is any good remedy for its destruc¬ 
tion? The beetle and its mode of operation 
Is described in Bulletin No. 33, U. S. De¬ 
partment of Agriculture, but no remedy 
given except to keep the ground free of 
brush, which I have always done. 
Ans.— No doubt the peach tree re¬ 
ferred to is affected with the Shot-hole 
borer (Scolytus rugulosus). This is a 
difficult pest to control, and although 
formerly it was held to attack only dead 
or dying trees, it undoubtedly attacks 
living trees as well and quite injuriously. 
As is stated in the letter, all the brush 
should be gathered up and burned, and 
also any dead trees should be cut down 
and burned, because both afford a breed¬ 
ing place for the beetles. In addition, 
those branches of the infested trees that 
are so affected that they are dying should 
be cut off and burned. This should be 
done in the Fall of the year after the 
wood has completed its growth and be¬ 
come mature.- In addition to these pre¬ 
cautions considerable protection will be 
derived from coating the living trees with 
a thick whitewash three times a year, 
once the latter part of March, the sec¬ 
ond during the first half of July and the 
third application about the first of Octo¬ 
ber. Paint the trunk and as much of the 
larger branches as it is possible to reach 
from the ground. The whitewash will 
act as a repellent, and has given consid¬ 
erable protection in cases where it has 
been tried. To make the whitewash more 
adhesive, add a quarter of a pound of 
table salt to each pail of the wash. 
GLENN W. HERRICK. 
Kootenay Country for Apples. 
J. A. II., Steubenville, O .—What is your 
opinion of the Kootenay district as com¬ 
pared with Washington and Oregon for the 
production of fine apples? Will Prof. Yan 
Deman give an opinion as to best varieties 
for the former location? 
Ans.— The Kootenay country, which 
is in northern Idaho, is practically the 
same as northeastern Washington, and 
is a good region for growing fruits. 
Apples, pears, cherries, plums, peaches 
and the bush fruits do well there. It is 
a new country and very little has been 
planted there in comparison with the 
older parts of Oregon and Washington. 
I have been through it to some extent, 
and think it a lovely country in which 
to live, and there is good profit in grow¬ 
ing fruits there. The market facilities 
are getting better all the time. The 
varieties suitable to grow are the same 
as for Oregon and Washington. Spitzen- 
berg, Yellow Newtown, Jonathan, 
Grimes, Rome Beauty, Winesap and 
Stayman are some of the best apples. 
Bartlett and Comice are the best pears 
for market. Bing, Lambert and Napo¬ 
leon are the leading cherries to grow, 
but any of the sour varieties flourish 
equally well. Any of the best fruits are 
at home there and so are vegetables and 
flowers. No one need fear trying the 
Kootenay country as a pleasant and 
profitable home. H. e. van deman. 
First Farmer: “Got a hired man?” 
Second Farmer: “Nope, an agricultural 
assistant.”—New York Sun. 
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Top and Mezger Automatic Windshield Extra 
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The thing that counts most is getting-there-and-back, ability to do 
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Think of a car that keeps on going for io}4 days, day and night, 
over all the kinds of roads there are between New York and San Francisco 
—good roads, bad roads, awful roads, no roads at all but only deserts and 
mountain tracks, through mud, through sand, fords and all that—and 
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Reo “Thirty” Four-passenger Roadster same price, $ 1250 . Reo 
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Send for a Reo catalogue, also ‘Coast to Coast in Ten Days. ” 
Better yet, get next to a Reo dealer and let him take you out. 
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Why Don’t You Drain or 
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THE 
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