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THE RUKAb NEW-YORKER 
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CREAM FROM TWO COWS. 
Can anyone tell me if it is desirable to 
use a cream separator for the milk from two 
cows? What is the best method of getting 
the cream for table and butter making when 
a separator is not used? w. c. d. 
New York. 
We should consider about five good 
cows the limit of profit in using a hand 
separator. The machine would separate 
the smaller quantity of milk, but would 
have to be cleaned after each short run. 
A tin or glass can submerged in ice 
water will hold the milk and separate 
practically all of the cream. 
Feeding Cactus to Stock. 
M., Florida. —I received samples of cac¬ 
tus from the Department of Agriculture, 
and have grown them, but have not been 
able to induce my stock to eat it. How 
can I do so? 
Ans. —I consider that this correspond¬ 
ent is having the same trouble he would 
have if he tried to teach his cows to eat 
any other new feed. They have to ac¬ 
quire a taste for it. Our cows grow up 
with it, and we do not have to educate 
them. Sometimes, however, when we 
buy a cow, she is a little slow to take 
hold. But they all learn, and like it, too. 
It is good hog feed, but no use for 
horses or mules. I suppose it might do 
for chickens, but have no definite infor¬ 
mation. WM. SINCLAIR. 
Concrete Barn Floor. 
E. D. C., Litchfield, Conn.— In putting 
down a concrete floor in an old barn what 
method of attaching the silTs to the con¬ 
crete is necessary, if any? The ground 
around my barn slopes so that one corner 
Is about three feet above ground level. I 
suppose the foundation here will neverthe¬ 
less have to go down below frost, but will the 
fill Inside the foundation and upon which the 
concrete floor will have to rest, be likely 
to settle and crack the floor? Would a dirt 
fill be better than a fill of field stones 
which are more or less round? How would 
the floor better be marked off to prevent 
horses slipping? 
Ans. —It is not absolutely necessary 
to have the sills fastened to the concrete 
bottom, but it is better to do so, because 
it will insure their remaining in place, 
and it can be done so cheaply. Simply 
take an inch—or for ordinary not very 
heavy timber—a half-inch or three-quar¬ 
ter bolt, long enough to go through the 
sill, and several inches into the concrete, 
and have a blacksmith make a head on it 
like the top of the letter T. This is 
placed in the mixture when it is put 
down, afterward holes can be bored in 
the sills to correspond, and a washer and 
nut on top hold it in place. It will pay 
to put a piece of heavy tar paper beneath 
the sills and on the inside between them 
and the cement floor. This will prevent 
dampness coming in contact with the 
wood, and will prevent them decaying 
with dry rot. It is best to put the foun¬ 
dation below frost. A stone fill is better 
than a dirt one, only be sure to get to 
solid bottom before starting the fill. Put 
in the stones as compact as possible, and 
then run in between them a thin grout, 
about one part of cement to seven of 
sand. If the floor is surfaced with a 
board, so as to leave it rough rather than 
as the custom is, with a trowel, there 
will be little danger of the horses slip¬ 
ping. EDWARD VAN ALSTYNE. 
Preserving Eggs In Water Glass. 
D. D.j St. Joseph, Mo. —I took a recipe 
from your paper for preserving eggs. I 
am using water glass and boiled water, ac¬ 
cording to directions. Is it necessary to 
place the eggs in any particular position? 
I am using five-gallon earthen jars, and 
1 have been told that I should put small 
end down. I have put them in just as it 
happened. 
Ans. —We have always put the eggs 
into the solution without regard to their 
position. So long as they are fresh and 
clean and are kept covered they will re¬ 
main good. You must remember that 
the water glass cannot make a stale egg 
fresh or improve its condition. There 
will be most likely a slight change in the 
egg. Thus it must be as fresh as pos¬ 
sible to start with. You will be disap¬ 
pointed if you pick up old eggs and put 
them into the solution. We doubt if it 
will pay to put the eggs in any particular 
position. 
Fencing Railway Line. 
F. E. D., Upper Marlboro, • Md .—The 
Chesapeake Beach Railway runs nearly a 
mile through our farm in Prince George 
Co., Md., and I would like to know whose 
duty, it is to fence their right of way 
through farm. 
Ans. —It is the duty of the railroad 
company to fence their right of way. 
Division of Estate. 
A man dies intestate, leaving real estate 
and personal property. The heirs, three 
sons and his widow, have settled the per¬ 
sonal property, taking out administration 
papers. Now we wish to sell the farm. 
Must we get a permit from the courts, or 
can we sell without a permit, and does the 
administrator of the personal property hold 
over as administrator of the real estate? 
What share of the real estate does the 
widow receive? G. F. a. 
New Jersey. 
Ans. —Real estate belonging to the 
estate of a deceased person can be sold 
only on an order from the court. The 
judge will, without cost, explain the 
matter to you. 
Ownership in Overhanging Limbs. 
J. E. R., Webster, N. T. —A’s and B’s 
farms join. A has an orchard with the 
trees so close to the line fence that the 
limbs hang over the line on B’s side to the 
extent of 10 and 12 feet. B has a 20-foot 
lane running along said line leading to pas¬ 
ture. Who do the apples belong to that 
are over the line on B’s land? Can B trim 
these limbs back even with the line, or 
compel A to do it? If, when the apples 
fall, one of B’s cows should choke to death 
by eating one of those apples, if the apples 
belong to A, can B make A pay for the 
cow ? 
Ans. —The tree would belong to the 
person on whose land it was growing. 
A person could not go on the land of an¬ 
other to pick fruit, but it could be picked 
by the person over whose land it grew. 
If the limbs of a tree grow in such a 
manner as to shade or injure your land 
you can cut them off even with your line. 
The cow question is absurd, and forms no 
basis for legal rights. 
Clover Experience. 
1 spoke to you last year of cutting the 
first growth of clover and Timothy grown 
from seed sown April 4, 1909, either five 
or six times on what had been used for 
gardening for quite a number of years. A 
part of the ground was cut over twice. It 
was the higher portion. The part cut 
over five or six times was on low ground; 
it has yielded two crops of nearly all clover 
that has lodged each time before cutting 
this year. I have become satisfied that 
allowing clover to make but little stalk 
growth but more root growth the first year 
will cause it to remain longer for cropping. 
Salem, N. Y. H. M. 
Chicks in Turnips. 
I find that early hatched chicks raised 
In a turnip patch grow off finely, and the 
death rate is very small. After they eat 
off the turnip tops they start in on the 
turnip and, even though the turnip be 
rotten, as they are in the end of the season 
it does not hurt them. I was afraid at 
first that they would be made sick, but it 
did not harm at all. I am so pleased with 
the results that I am planning to put down 
an acre in turnips late this Summer. I shall 
probably put in a little clover and oats, 
they will harvest the oats themselves 
Chicken manure will certainly bring oats, 
I have some nearly six feet tall with very 
heavy heads. w. D. s. 
Virginia. 
The Consumer’s Dollar. 
For years we have studied the farm 
papers to learn how to raise the best and 
largest crops of all lines of produce. We 
have succeeded in this part. But when we 
come to sell this produce, we find the mar¬ 
ket so manipulated by the middleman that 
we receive hardly a living profit for our 
work. We have faithfully studied and at¬ 
tended to the work end, but we have sadly 
neglected the business end ; the selling end, 
forgetting that the selling end of any busi¬ 
ness is by far the most important part. I 
believe the greatest need of the farmers of 
this nation at the present time is help from 
farm papers like The It. N.-Y. in this bat¬ 
tle of the farmers which is raging from 
ocean to ocean, to get profitable prices for 
farm produce. To use your own words “We 
(the farmers) need now hard strong fight¬ 
ers to give expression to the hot anger of 
the American farmers. The farmers are de¬ 
fending a righteous cause; the rigut of men 
to a just reward for their labor and capital 
invested. We hope all farm papers will 
enlist in the cause of the above farmers. 
When their heavy artillery guns are trained 
on the enemy’s camp the trust fortress will 
fall.” . A. J. WOOD. 
New York. 
R. N.-Y.—If the farm papers would come 
openly into the fight without considering 
politics or advertising the thing would be 
done. This 35-cent dollar is the beginning 
of the end of the farmers’ trouble, for in 
the 65 cents which the handlers take may 
be found most of the evils which honest 
men are trying to fight. As for a reason 
why the publisher of your farm paper does 
not come in :—“lie is of aye—ask him.’'’ 
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